Example sentences of "[adv] makes a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his third ‘ defension ’ from August 19 , 1538 , he declared ‘ Everything is a poison , the dose alone makes a thing not a poison ’ . |
| 2 | Now Lady Mendl was after all a highly successful professional decorator , and whatever her sumptuous simplicities in the matter of table decoration — a little white Ming rabbit at each guest 's place , a remnant of sixteenth-century French green silk brocade used as a tablecloth , one flawless magnolia on the tea tray ( the photograph of her butler carrying this same tray alone makes a copy of the book worth searching for ) — she certainly did n't seriously intend playing them down . |
| 3 | He therefore only makes a judgement when a profit-decision has to be made , and in doing so takes the risk that he could be wrong . |
| 4 | That glacial exterior only makes a man the more eager to find it . ’ |
| 5 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | However , by being over-zealous with food restriction , the dieter inadvertently makes a binge on forbidden foods far more likely . |
| 8 | He had to invest all his savings in this nursery 3 years ago and still it only just makes a profit . |
| 9 | ‘ He just makes a mockery of those who write players off at 32 or say the Premier League is for young athletes . |
| 10 | But what exactly makes a feature salient ? |
| 11 | Use the clean channel but remove the fan cooling the output valves ( it already makes a rattling noise ! ) so that the valves are hotter and ‘ clip ’ at lower volumes . |
| 12 | Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? |
| 13 | The ‘ marketable ’ sector produces goods and services which are sold on established markets , generally makes a profit , and can therefore be regarded as self-financing . |
| 14 | Yet England are short of a cover for Stevens — and that is some shortage — so Parker 's appearance tonight makes a bit of sense . |
| 15 | All the assassin had to do was take the piece of thread as I did , pull it very slowly , which hardly makes a sound , and murder is only a few seconds away . |
| 16 | A verb always makes a link and it always represents some kind of movement . |
| 17 | It always makes a change to get away from dreadnoughts , so for a review guitar we chose the SJ-20 model . |
| 18 | All employees at Lansbury Hotels are involved in a quality service programme called ‘ caring always makes a difference ’ . |
| 19 | JB , who lives with his publican owners , always makes a bee-line for the regulars as soon as he hears the last orders bell . |
| 20 | He who also hopes for the leadership , but not yet , but still makes a speech fit for a leader . |
| 21 | Market economics clearly makes a number of effective criticisms of demand management , and its emphasis on the limited competence of government to promote economic growth provides at least a valuable corrective to what became the orthodox political economy of the post-war period . |
| 22 | Having twin and matched secondary windings clearly makes a mains transformer very versatile , but it also means that you have to be rather more careful when wiring it up . |
| 23 | In such circumstances the use of kinship language to express all kinds of relationship , which is what anthropologists have now come to expect , clearly makes a lot of sense . |
| 24 | He also clearly makes a point I had never considered before : that Bosola , the eternal outsider and masterless man , is not simply some rogue assassin but the author 's moral spokesman . |
| 25 | Call a soft but insistent ‘ cu-ic ’ , also makes a whip-crack sound by clapping wings together . |
| 26 | The Consumer Protection Act also makes a supplier liable if he fails to identify the producer within a reasonable time , having been asked to do so by the claimant . |
| 27 | A ‘ top-down ’ comment by Holdgate ( 1982 ) also makes a plea for relevant local research which can be applied and its resulting policies replicated . |
| 28 | Ruth Ann Swenson also makes a sweet voiced Marsinah , and Jerry Hadley sings well as the Caliph , but Valerie Masterson is even more appealing and David Rendall more impassioned . |
| 29 | He also makes a distinction between the profit-making nature of a private organization such as a firm and the non-profit-making activity of public sector organizations like bureaucracies . |
| 30 | Antoine evidently waved it , but he also makes a distinction between ‘ giving the tempos ’ and ‘ beating time ’ . |