Example sentences of "it makes [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Three year old Francesca Lobban is so sensitive to pain that it makes her heart stop and leaves her unconscious for up to ninety minutes . |
2 | Not only does this constrain Britain 's ability to win the internal-trade argument , it makes her position less than dominant on the question of Europe 's attitude to the development of trade with third countries . |
3 | This light is used in deep-freeze displays in particular supermarkets ; it makes her pitch forward into the deep-freeze container . |
4 | Already the club have learned they will receive in the region of £8,500 towards travelling costs when it makes its debut in the Courage National League Division Four next season . |
5 | The great skua stercorarius skua is an exciting bird to see along our coasts at this time of year as it makes its way from its northern breeding ground to its wintering area . |
6 | The station was reached via the Whisker Hill curve , seen in this rare view of Royal Scot 46151 ‘ The Royal Horse Guardsman ’ as it makes its way round the bend with an excursion . |
7 | When music turns up for review , you often listen to it two or three times while you wonder what you can say about it that is useful and informative , and then it makes its way to your shelves for ever . |
8 | As it makes its way along , the carp also takes in a certain amount of plant matter . |
9 | From here it makes its way down the coast — an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty — to the holiday resort of Cromer . |
10 | The trail starts at Beacon Hill in Frodsham from where it makes its way south to Dunsdale Hollow and follows a cliff edge and wooded slopes to reach Woodhouse Hill Fort — an iron age encampment . |
11 | If you could follow a leopard as it makes its way along such a track or even through the jungle itself , you would see that the animal blazes its own trail every 20 yards ( 18 m ) or so by spraying trees and bushes with its scent mark . |
12 | I immediately stop the engine and we drift parallel to the animal as it makes its way down the beach and into the sea . |
13 | Slowly it makes its way down the tube . |
14 | Thus if we are walking in the pastoral , remote country on the borders of Leicestershire and Rutland , following the Eye brook as it makes its way south through undulating fields to the Welland , we pass in a walk of nine or ten miles through a landscape modelled in five different centuries , and this in a part of England that is generally accounted somewhat dull , the monotonous product of parliamentary enclosure . |
15 | The River Wye winds through 60 miles of spectacular countryside as it makes its way through Gloucestershire and Herefordshire . |
16 | It makes its presence felt now and then . ’ |
17 | Often it makes its home in holes beneath a river bank or among rocks . |
18 | Instead of burrowing into the foliage it makes its home in the stems of aquatic plants . |
19 | Christianity is not true because it makes its claims more boldly or more loudly than anything else ( or belief would be taken over by bravado ) . |
20 | The business to which the goods are sold ( if it is registered for VAT ) , when it makes its return to Customs and Excise , claims back the VAT which it has paid on the goods , which is known as the input tax . |
21 | It makes its money by charging commission to creditors of up to half the value of the debts it recovers . |
22 | A magazine , a sort of diary of what 's happening locally , it makes its money by advertising . |
23 | It makes its road debut in a revised Griffith in March next year . |
24 | STRATEGIES FOR CORPORATE SUCCESS Survival in financial markets , where a company raises its capital , is achieved through success in the competitive markets where it makes its profits . |
25 | The mountain everlasting ( Antennaria dioica ) with its dainty little furry flowers is known in Gaelic as literally ‘ cat 's paw ’ , while the marsh marigold ( Caltha palustris ) is known as ‘ the yellow plant of Beltane ’ , for it makes its appearance at Beltane , May first , thus marking the second half of the ancient Celtic year . |
26 | It makes its appearance on the bold ridge by the Rollright Stones , where it forms the boundary between Warwickshire and Oxfordshire for part of its course . |
27 | This type of discourse — free indirect speech or free indirect style — is peculiar to the novel ; it makes its appearance in the late eighteenth century and Jane Austen was probably the first novelist to realise its full potential . |
28 | The weakness of this is that it fails to view the implications of the spending when it makes its impact but only when the spending actually takes place . |
29 | In fact it makes its point more powerfully if it is seen as prose but heard or read as poetry since the meditation then enacts for the reader that speech-become-song meditation-become-poem that Rolle talks of in The Fire of Love . |
30 | Telling one 's own stories to children of different ages is extremely satisfying and also shows you where you went wrong in the rhythm of a sentence ; unconsciously you alter it to fit the audience in front of you and get it right , so that it makes its point swiftly and powerfully . |