Example sentences of "[noun sg] only make " in BNC.
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| 1 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 2 | After all , the retailer only makes a profit on the items he sells : if the prices he charges are too high , the customers will go elsewhere and he wo n't make any profit at all ! |
| 3 | Codex at present only makes recommendations but its rules will become international standards with the settlement of the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 4 | The success of German industry in the west only made the people in the east more desperate and paranoid . |
| 5 | If anything , years of experience only made you more aware of what could go wrong . |
| 6 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 7 | State-owned British Leyland , for example , had ( barely ) managed to get by with each employee only making six cars in 1979 . |
| 8 | But such reconciliatory action only made matters worse , reawakening hostilities in the Marne . |
| 9 | The report in the Bude and Stratton Post , headlined MAROONED ON ROCK only made things worse . |
| 10 | As they are practised in the modern world , high-level teaching and research only make sense in institutions . |
| 11 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 12 | But this lady only makes three appearances , Diane . |
| 13 | But this lady only makes three appearances , Diane . |
| 14 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 15 | For this reason , investments of this type only make sense if the success of a successful outcome is in a traditional field where the rewards are known . |
| 16 | If someone were asked , ‘ is salt masculine or feminine ’ , they would be at a loss ; the question only makes sense if they are asked to compare salt with pepper . |
| 17 | The choice of the Waterside railway station as an assembly point only made sense if the sole criterion was the convenience of demonstrators coming from other parts of Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Looking Nicolo in the eye only made her knees feel as if they were going to buckle . |
| 19 | However in the Nayar case it is clear that the matrilineal organization of the Nayar taravad only makes sense when it is viewed as a part of the larger society which included the patrilineal organization of the Nambudiri and the military organization of the pre-British South Indian principalities . |
| 20 | The threat of another war only made it more urgent for him to preserve his symbolic status , so that he could be the French people 's supreme recourse should catastrophe strike once again . |
| 21 | However , the traditional view argues that this factor only makes itself felt after a substantial proportion of total financing is in the form of debt . |
| 22 | I keep on insisting that customary behaviour only makes sense if it is viewed in context against a background of contrast . |
| 23 | Workers could conceivably mistake a rise in money wages for a rise in real wage à la Friedman ( 1968 ) , but the Friedman speculation only makes sense if employers think ( perhaps mistakenly ) that the real wage rate has fallen to a level such as in Figure 6.10 . |
| 24 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |
| 25 | ‘ But all the criticism only makes us want to prove ourselves even more . ’ |
| 26 | That all this was long gone and impossible to recover , except through industrialisation , social change and arduous struggle with a resilient and increasingly nationalist foe only made life in the eastern borders even more frustrating . |
| 27 | Ambition burned within her , she wanted Hari to work for her so much , to make the business an outstanding success and Hari 's reticence only made Emily more eager to have her services . |
| 28 | That glacial exterior only makes a man the more eager to find it . ’ |
| 29 | Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier . |
| 30 | Whereupon Hargreaves threw his arms around Venetia and kissed her violently , pausing for breath only to make some comment about Public Ownership , as Giles sprawled upon the floor . |