Sentence examples for making the figure from inspiring English sources

At Hains Point, the pieces were placed slightly off-kilter, making the figure anatomically incorrect.

Here the artist has foreshortened the room to compress space, making the figure seem larger and the picture, over all, more dramatic.

Only by reading a paragraph above the table would an investor know that the figure is a non-GAAP measure that includes certain expenses that have been added back, making the figure larger than it would have otherwise been.

And in making the figure of Death a drug dealer who was Orfeu's childhood friend, Mr. Diegues manages both to augment his film's naturalism and to place "Orfeu" in a tradition that extends from the rap-fueled ghetto melodramas of recent years back through "Mean Streets" and, ultimately, the classic gangster movies of the 1930's.

Bernd Schips, an economics professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, says that recent changes in the way the GDP figures are calculated, and incomplete labour-force figures, may have been another factor in making the figure for GDP growth per person look lower than it is.Besides, Switzerland's growth paradox is anything but new.

For Microsoft, however, the total loss amounts to a minute percentage of its ready cash, not to mention its quarterly net income, making the figure inconsequential.

He had argued that making the figures public would place the BBC at a competitive disadvantage.

But, as Sight & Sound points out, making the figures stack up has to be a priority.

"See, he's making the figures demonstrate things that they have no right to demonstrate".

Then there is the use of the synthetic foams, making the figures light and airy despite their immense scale.

We thank Wilma Verweij for correcting our English and Henk Stoffels for making the figures.