Example sentences of "it made [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it made nonsense of their appeal for support within Scotland on the grounds of freeing the kingdom from the tyranny of strangers . |
| 2 | It made dissent , social criticism , and alternative scenarios more difficult to articulate . |
| 3 | It made racism respectable and clinical by institutionalising it . |
| 4 | Aged 28 , Lesley claims not to be a natural competitor and in fact as a teenager dropped out of a PE teacher training course as she felt it made sport too serious and took the fun away . |
| 5 | Oh yes , it made steam . |
| 6 | Rex felt the knee as it made contact with his groin . |
| 7 | There was no answer to her gibe , and , despite the fact that the fumes in the room told her the substance on her hair was likely to blind her if it made contact , she sat up and risked opening one eye . |
| 8 | We never heard the last from Mum about God 's bounty from the vegetable garden ; it made Dad seem like some kind of honorary clergyman . |
| 9 | It made Charity even more uneasy about Mandy unabashedly training the binoculars on him . |
| 10 | It made life very easy for us . |
| 11 | By women being open about sex , it made life much easier for men . |
| 12 | This fitted in neatly with Spencer 's philosophy of self-help as the driving force of evolution , and Lankester drew the obvious implication from his theory by warning that the human race might degenerate if it made life too easy for itself . |
| 13 | This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow . |
| 14 | ‘ It made money , but not a great deal , ’ he says . |
| 15 | The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC . |
| 16 | ‘ Because there was something foul about the set-up at the Jenner Clinic , and they do n't want it made public . ’ |
| 17 | It made government supporters more optimistic about the economy and opposition supporters more pessimistic . |
| 18 | It made sense and she did n't like it . |
| 19 | So there came a point when it made sense to change that particular balance . |
| 20 | The first decision was clearly whether it made sense to concentrate all our resources behind the two core businesses , without foods . |
| 21 | As every flat needs to have these service spaces , and such spaces occupy a fixed minimum area in a flat of any size , it made sense to maximise this internal accommodation in order to utilise fully the broad interior , and this was achieved by making the majority of flats one-bedroom or bedsitter units . |
| 22 | McLeish found himself receiving this with reluctance and wondered why , since it made sense . |
| 23 | Instead of starting with the birth of Jesus and going on to his ministry , death and resurrection , the first disciples began with the resurrection and showed how it made sense of the rest . |
| 24 | ‘ What I always say is , if it made sense , it would n't be alien . ’ |
| 25 | It made sense , in a way . |
| 26 | Smith argued that where a print run — or more likely a reprint — had left hundreds or thousands of unsold copies , it made sense in times of crippling warehouse costs and tight cash flows to unload slow-selling stock . |
| 27 | It made sense . |
| 28 | For the first time in my life it made sense . |
| 29 | It made sense , of course , but to give up direct production of national network features , which I had originated and perfected , was a wrench ; it was like putting out one 's own child for adoption . |
| 30 | Asked whether , in this increasingly environment-conscious world it made sense to use expensive oak or metal caskets , Miss Vincent said . |