Example sentences of "it makes [adj] [noun sg] " 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 It makes practical sense to train suitable spokesmen .
3 It makes economic sense , particularly if the prospectus is printed commercially , to run off a substantial number at one time .
4 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 .
5 In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
8 It makes superb cheese on toast because it melts very easily .
9 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 ) ) .
10 It makes great play when the saints ' days of Scotland , Wales and Ireland are due , but St George 's Day is forgotten .
11 And it makes great reading
12 It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible .
13 Like the 1944 Act , it makes religious education compulsory , together with religious worship that will normally be ‘ broadly Christian ’ in character .
14 It makes fascinating reading , commencing with the work of British businessmen who pioneered the game in their adopted country .
15 It makes perfect sense .
16 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 .
17 It makes perfect sense .
18 ‘ Do n't look so surprised , it makes perfect sense .
19 Economically , it makes perfect sense . ’
20 It makes perfect sense , simple addition and subtraction , but no one figured the tracking speed into the equation .
21 It makes uncomfortable living .
22 It makes extensive use of CLI commands .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure .
26 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 .
27 Considering what is already known about muscle , it makes good sense .
28 At that time it makes good sense to separate males from females .
29 So , on that basis , it makes good sense to start on the bigger warrens .
30 Because none of us know when a permanently disabling accident may strike , it makes good sense to protect against the possible effects .
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