Example sentences of "but [pron] makes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capita Group , the management services company best known for collecting poll tax and operating TV licence detector vans but which makes most of its money operating computers for local authorities , has been given a new lease of life by John Major 's re-election . |
| 2 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
| 3 | Editor , — Nicholas Wald rightly emphasises the importance and the ethical nature of randomised multicentre prevention trials , but he makes two statements that can not go unchallenged . |
| 4 | But he makes new friends easily , and it was Prevert who once related the most revealing anecdote about Doisneau and his commitment to his accomplices . |
| 5 | He 's too smart to pretend to be Labour , but he makes sure we do n't forget him . |
| 6 | But he makes clear the utopian nature of modern popular SF ( within his own definition ) . |
| 7 | This might be slightly bending the letter of the law in that the prospectus should be a single document but it makes good economic sense . |
| 8 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just a simple two minute job , ’ Dan told me , ‘ but it makes all the difference . ’ |
| 10 | This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . ) |
| 11 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 12 | Not only does this clarify the nature of the authorities competent to issue and execute letters rogatory but it makes mandatory as between parties to the Protocol the use of Central Authorities both for the outward transmission and inward receipt of letters rogatory ; that there is an obligation to designate a Central Authority , a matter not wholly clear in the text of the Convention , is specifically provided in Article 2 of the Protocol . |
| 13 | But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure . |
| 14 | Its tone is playful and frivolous but it makes some valid criticisms . |
| 15 | Derbyshire not only employs some pretty odd people , but it makes some rather odd choices . |
| 16 | But what makes this machine really special is that it offers you the chance to create an unlimited range of embroidery designs . |
| 17 | But what makes this book really good , is the style . |
| 18 | But what makes sexual athlete ? |
| 19 | But what makes those involved remain optimistic is the number , and talent , of the performers who 've emerged in the past two years . |