Example sentences of "it makes [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It makes superb cheese on toast because it melts very easily . |
| 32 | It makes fifty pound though cheap does n't it you know |
| 33 | If a firm raises 1 million from issuing a bond with a coupon of 10 per cent , it makes annual interest payments of 100,000 at a net cost to itself of 65,000 per annum ( i.e. 100,000 ( 1 -0.35 ) ) . |
| 34 | As a piece of recording , the Philips set has one advantage in that it makes best use of the excellent John Alldis Choir and puts them well forward , whereas the perfectly good Lyon Opera Chorus is relegated to the middle distance as usual . |
| 35 | It makes great play when the saints ' days of Scotland , Wales and Ireland are due , but St George 's Day is forgotten . |
| 36 | And it makes great reading … |
| 37 | It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible . |
| 38 | Like the 1944 Act , it makes religious education compulsory , together with religious worship that will normally be ‘ broadly Christian ’ in character . |
| 39 | It makes fascinating reading , commencing with the work of British businessmen who pioneered the game in their adopted country . |
| 40 | ‘ It makes perfect sense . |
| 41 | It makes perfect sense that old , disabled and non-adult persons should be excluded from the reference of this phrase , but no sense that women should be excluded — unless the word adult really means adult male . |
| 42 | It makes perfect sense . |
| 43 | ‘ Do n't look so surprised , it makes perfect sense . |
| 44 | Economically , it makes perfect sense . ’ |
| 45 | It makes perfect sense , simple addition and subtraction , but no one figured the tracking speed into the equation . |
| 46 | It makes uncomfortable living . |
| 47 | It makes extensive use of CLI commands . |
| 48 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 49 | But unlike the P series , which was made entirely of metal , it makes greater use of plastic , a trend pioneered by the likes of IBM and Hewlett-Packard . |
| 50 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 51 | And the G M B demands that when the good committee report it makes such behaviour illegal . |
| 52 | As a final point about the root definition , it is sometimes useful to express it as a statement to see if it makes reasonable sense , and to double-check that all the CATWOE factors have been considered . |
| 53 | Not that it makes much difference . ’ |
| 54 | " I do n't think it makes much difference where we do a bit of scratching , " he said . |
| 55 | I mean , not that it makes much difference these days anyway , but yes , you 're right ; it is a bit soon . |
| 56 | In practice — I doubt if it makes much difference . |
| 57 | Let's be fair , now ; I do n't expect it makes much difference to Mrs Morgan , or her cat , " Mr Smith said , and a small smile played over his lips as he glanced at Dan Ashton , who grunted and looked down at his feet while Smith continued , " whether you were joking or in deadly seriousness . " |
| 58 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 59 | European manufacturers invariably make plain tiles alongside their interlocking tiles , and it makes good sense for a manufacturer to be able to offer both types of product . |
| 60 | Considering what is already known about muscle , it makes good sense . |