Example sentences of "it makes [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only can it tolerate heating at 100°C , but it makes DNA at high temperatures compared with the 37°C physiological temperature optimum of most enzymes . |
| 2 | It makes provision for monetary compensation to be paid to any person to whom an offer should have been made but was not , and who has suffered loss . |
| 3 | It makes assumptions about known and unknown future conditions that are likely to determine the success of these plans . |
| 4 | It makes assumptions about known and unknown future conditions likely to determine the success of these plans . |
| 5 | Such a usage is still ultimately deictic , in that it makes reference to participant-role , but it is not directly place-deictic ( in that there is no anchorage to the location of the present speech event ) . |
| 6 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 7 | It makes money from spreads on its hedging operations which fix the interest rate , and on attracting new clients . |
| 8 | The filopodia pull the sheet right across the cavity until it makes contact with the other side where it meets and fuses with another but much smaller invagination which is the future mouth . |
| 9 | The hipbelt 's purple padding is deeply grooved at the sides so that it makes contact with the body . |
| 10 | The POU S alone is unable to bind DNA but in context with the POU HD it makes contact with DNA and is necessary for high-affinity , specific binding ( 23–28 ) . |
| 11 | The last function in Figure 1.1 is financial control and , is can be seen , it makes contact with all the others . |
| 12 | As deputy Speaker Michael Morris told MPs at the first sitting of the line-by-line committee stage in January : ‘ I must emphasise that this bill does not ratify the treaty ; it makes changes in domestic law consequential upon the treaty . ’ |
| 13 | Inside the blue and gilt auditorium , the loveliest in the world , western presence was felt only in the shape of a film crew and their bright lights , with the Philips recording team behind the scenes , documenting one of the company 's most remarkable achievements under Gergiev before it makes way for new plans . |
| 14 | If the board is sectioned by coloured tape , and each section clearly headed ( e.g. Introductory Course ; Year 1 ; Year II ; UKCC Royal College of Nursing notices ) , it makes selection of material to be read easier . |
| 15 | It makes sense to be sold in a package , ’ says Turner . |
| 16 | It makes sense to gear up at the car — as the descent leads logically back to this point . |
| 17 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 18 | Blue chips such as British Telecom are realising that it makes sense to ‘ take work to the people to overcome a permanent shortage of software engineers in the South East , says Malcolm Lees at BT 's software centre . |
| 19 | Mike reckons that it makes sense to be nearer the only regular snow skiing in the British Isles . |
| 20 | After all , the sentence is one of the building blocks of a piece of prose , so it makes sense to be able to work with whole sentences rather than having to highlight each word within one manually . |
| 21 | I think for the time being I I 'd I 'd I 'd I 'd I 'd I think that it makes sense to be fully in control of it , I think that I you know have great faith in Virgin Atlantic , erm I think that it erm it 's got a great future , erm but erm er I do n't think it would be that easy to erm you know to I do n't think we 'd have partners falling over themselves to get into the airline business in in in this recession . |
| 22 | On the basis of interviews with samples of prisoners and staff , and of observations , an attempt is made to show : what the prison system is like ; why it is like it is ; whether it makes sense to those who experience it ; and whether there are alternative ways of reconciling security and control with humane containment . |
| 23 | ‘ It makes sense to pool resources and can only increase our opportunities of winning a share of the work , ’ Roddy MacIver says . |
| 24 | Mark : " I do believe in God — it makes sense to me as nothing else does . " |
| 25 | He said : ‘ It makes sense to me to prevent ill health , so that people do n't have to go into hospital in the first place . |
| 26 | But it makes sense to me to have a little bit of help . |
| 27 | But if you , if you look at a B two it makes sense , I mean I 've looked at B two 's and I have n't really understood what the one 's two 's and three's are for but now it makes sense to me so people who are B two makes more sense to them to know what |
| 28 | Let me just say one or two things about radio and see whether it makes sense to people , and in particular whether it makes sense to our colleagues from the local radio in this region . |
| 29 | Let me just say one or two things about radio and see whether it makes sense to people , and in particular whether it makes sense to our colleagues from the local radio in this region . |
| 30 | The reach of corporatist theory is over ambitious : it makes sense of things but only with respect to some groups ; some issues ; some periods ; and at some levels of the state . |