Example sentences of "it makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself .
2 The natural habitat is the coastal waters of West Africa between the Rivers Senegal and Congo , where it makes occasional excursions into freshwater .
3 He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable .
4 It makes practical sense to train suitable spokesmen .
5 It makes economic sense , particularly if the prospectus is printed commercially , to run off a substantial number at one time .
6 With club rates varying from £50–£90 per hour depending on which part of the country you reside in , it makes economic sense if you can afford it to join a group — or perhaps if a little more of the folding stuff is available , to buy your own small PFA type or microlight .
7 In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide .
8 If , for whatever reason , a husband initially commands higher rates of pay than his wife it makes economic sense for him to ‘ specialize ’ in paid work and let her shoulder the brunt of the partnership 's unpaid chores ( Becker , 1981 , 1985 ; for a critique see Owen , 1987 ) .
9 He says there are a number of ecological as well as economic reasons — it 's a longer , stronger tougher fibre — it makes a longer-lasting paper and it makes economic sense to grow the material in this country rather than importing it .
10 It makes superb cheese on toast because it melts very easily .
11 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 ) ) .
12 It makes young wines harsh and gives your mouth a dry and furry feeling .
13 It makes great play when the saints ' days of Scotland , Wales and Ireland are due , but St George 's Day is forgotten .
14 And it makes great reading
15 It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it .
16 In the case of cathedrals , it makes increasing demands upon their resources , and the cost of their music is very high .
17 It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible .
18 Like the 1944 Act , it makes religious education compulsory , together with religious worship that will normally be ‘ broadly Christian ’ in character .
19 It makes fascinating reading , commencing with the work of British businessmen who pioneered the game in their adopted country .
20 A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world .
21 It makes perfect sense .
22 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 .
23 It makes perfect sense .
24 ‘ Do n't look so surprised , it makes perfect sense .
25 Economically , it makes perfect sense . ’
26 It makes perfect sense , simple addition and subtraction , but no one figured the tracking speed into the equation .
27 It makes specific points under the section on schools :
28 It makes uncomfortable living .
29 It makes extensive use of CLI commands .
30 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 .
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