Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the surprising feature of Ibstock Johnsen is that it continues to make any money at all . |
| 2 | This year we decided at the AGM to visit the Llangollen Railway , having learnt from the railway press that it has made rapid progress in the last three years . |
| 3 | Building reusable code can take more time initially , so it has to make good business sense to invest the extra time on a particular object . |
| 4 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 5 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 6 | Gerver ( 1980 , personal communication ) had reported a high correlation between these measures and foreign language interpreting abilities , and it appeared to make little difference which language the text was presented in . |
| 7 | If it manages to make that charge stick , it will have got itself a powerful vote-winner . |
| 8 | The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood . |
| 9 | But it does make perfect sense in context . |
| 10 | Often a change of publisher does wonders for an author , but it seems to make little difference to this man 's sales . |
| 11 | I do n't know whether it has made any difference , but now we 're obliged to abandon some of our defences and it 's certain that your presence can no longer help us . |