Example sentences of "[pron] makes some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for professional historians so much as for people who really did want to have a version of England 's past which makes some sense sort of sense now . |
| 2 | The reappraisal comes , incidentally , just after I drew attention to Emma Tennant 's forthcoming biography , which makes some play of Hardy 's relationship with an actress 60 years his junior . |
| 3 | From examination of family life and some of the needs of children at home , the next writer , Nigel Parton , moves to the tragic issue of child abuse , a form of adult behaviour which makes some children 's home life a nightmare and which social workers find is one of the most difficult problems they have to address . |
| 4 | Indeed , as we shall see later , a rise in total output accompanied by a change in the distribution of income which makes some people better off and others worse off can not necessarily be interpreted as an improvement in the country 's living standards . |
| 5 | Figure 12.1 shows a small hierarchy or group of ranked subjects which makes some statement concerning the relationships between those subjects . |
| 6 | To form a working hypothesis , he makes some assumptions ; that global warming is irreversibly established , that the probable result for Britain would be a rise in sea levels , and that while the south-east will become more ‘ Mediterranean ’ , the north-west will get milder and wetter . |
| 7 | I 'm sure he makes some sort of reaction I ca n't see . |
| 8 | He makes some allegations which I ca n't understand . |
| 9 | It makes some sense to me , and clearly to some of the audience here tonight . |
| 10 | It makes some sense to argue that an animal needs less computing power to find leaves , which are abundant all around , than to find fruit , which may have to be searched for , or to catch insects , which take active steps to get away . |
| 11 | As he said , it makes some criticism of the European dimension , but in paragraph 8 headed ’ Europe ’ it also says : ’ While local government structure in the UK can not be determined by the nature of European structural funds and the case for regional authorities with power over service delivery has not been made out , the European dimension must nonetheless be considered in the longer term . ’ |
| 12 | His assurances that it was still possible to declare war and survive were appreciated most of all by the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ — the Pentagon , the RAND Corporation ( for which Kahn 's research was done ) and the thriving weapons industry , Deterrence always had and will have one decisive advantage over Disarmament as a policy : it makes some people a fortune . |
| 13 | This is not the same as assessing its impact on the value of the company , although it makes some attempt to do this , as will be described shortly . |
| 14 | What makes some people happy for example , is that they are committed to a cause or to a person ; their happiness derives from something other than the pursuit of happiness . |
| 15 | What makes some people ‘ better ’ on the telephone than others ' ? |