Example sentences of "[noun sg] makes it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nothing either good or bad , but thinking makes it so ’ , CS 1 . |
| 2 | THINKING MAKES IT SO |
| 3 | The fact that Treasury rules restricted past investment makes it all the more necessary now for the privatised companies to get on with it . |
| 4 | The result makes it very difficult for the Lions to win the series . |
| 5 | This uncertainty makes it particularly interesting to know whether intentionally childless women are different in personality or attitudes from those who wish to have children , and whether these attitudes could readily become more widespread . |
| 6 | If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life . |
| 7 | The deal makes it almost certain that Mr Sam Nujoma , president of Swapo , will become the country 's first president . |
| 8 | The current financial situation facing local education authorities and academic institution makes it particularly difficult to overcome these problems without cooperation . |
| 9 | For the accompaniment of a large congregation there is no substitute , and the sustained and undergirding tone of the organ 's pedal department makes it particularly suitable for bold , harmonic music such as stately hymn tunes or processional marches . |
| 10 | There are sound anatomical reasons for this — the distance of the penis from the anus militates against direct infection from that source , and the ‘ external ’ nature of the penis makes it more easy to keep clean and perhaps abort an early infection . |
| 11 | This point concerns slaughter , which has been mentioned already ; however , I would just mention that as far as religious slaughter is concerned , recent research makes it absolutely clear that animals which are killed by cutting their throats can go for between 15 and 120 seconds able to detect what is going on around them . |
| 12 | The mass of legislation governing the haulage industry makes it quite easy to step outside the confines of the law , albeit inadvertently . |
| 13 | Does he agree that the private sector electricity industry makes it ever more important that safeguards should be built in to the process so that the need factor and the environmental impact are taken into account ? |
| 14 | To deny that there is single quantity that can be characterised as arousal makes it much more difficult to generalize the results of research using any particular measure or manipulation of arousal to other situations . |
| 15 | ‘ The fact that it [ JAH-BUL-ON ] stands at the pinnacle of Craft Freemasonry makes it well nigh impossible to change . |
| 16 | calling it wool makes it no more palatable . |
| 17 | The law makes it quite clear that a member of a local authority may not be employed by that authority . |
| 18 | The present law makes it more difficult for counselling organisations to reach gay men in this age group . |
| 19 | This is because the architecture makes it relatively simple for a compiler to allocate local scalars in registers , so there is no need for a language to give hints telling which should be used . |
| 20 | Exports are one way for America to soften the impact of sluggish demand at home ; the undervalued dollar makes it all the easier , in effect , to import some vitality from Germany and Japan . |
| 21 | Such chemical shifts can clearly give useful information about the oxidation state of an element in a sample , though the small shift range makes it hard to define non-overlapping regions characteristic of each oxidation state . |
| 22 | Even in the case of Braque , whose development was more methodical than Picasso 's , the dating of certain works is problematical , and Picasso 's sporadic method of work makes it doubly hard . |
| 23 | This plan makes it as likely as possible that I shall employ behaviours that are appropriate in two vital ways : |
| 24 | This final requirement makes it far re difficult to keep the list up to date but experience shown that a personalised approach is much more successful than a plain " to the industrial correspondent " . |
| 25 | By raising the costs of separation and imposing legal delays , marriage makes it less likely that the spouses will give way to strong but temporary impulses to separate . |
| 26 | This CCOAC makes it more likely that Person Y was involved in the things we think he was involved in but … ’ |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the 1980 Act makes it abundantly clear that , though districts are the development control authorities , they must direct their decisions to the implementation of the structure plan for their area . |
| 28 | However , the act makes it absolutely clear that the Charity Trustees remain ultimately responsible . |
| 29 | Loss suffered because the dismissal makes it more difficult for you to find another job . |
| 30 | This large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structures on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical spiral galaxy . |