Example sentences of "it make a [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several people said it was , to be sure it was , and did n't it make a plain man flinch . |
| 2 | It made a pre-tax operating loss of £398m , and restructuring took another £218m for a total pre-tax loss of £616m , up from a loss last time of £124m ; turnover fell 6% to £3,751m ; domestic sales and exports were each off 6% at £1,606m and £2,145m . |
| 3 | It made a hefty restructuring provision , indicating more disposals . |
| 4 | It makes a perfect supper dish for Easter . |
| 5 | It makes a good spawning medium , my fish spawned this spring and none of them lost a single scale . |
| 6 | ‘ With no other big news breaking , it makes a good lead item . ’ |
| 7 | AT&T Co has been awarded a $5m contract by the island of Nauru to digitise the country 's telecommunications network and set up direct international service : the order includes a 5ESS gateway switching system , equipment to digitise Nauru 's existing analogue earthstations , microwave towers and other terrestrial communications links , a cellular communications network and one year of on-site technical support ; the eight-square-mile island is 2,445 miles southwest of Hawaii and has 9,000 residents ; it makes a living exporting $75m a year in phosphates . |
| 8 | The unpaired 5'T(-1) lies in the major groove of the next duplex , where it makes a Hoogsteen base pair with A17 to form a T.A.T triple helical interaction . |
| 9 | Then you 'd be plucking the sides to make it tidy and carrying it to make a round top sort of a roof on it . |
| 10 | They are little more than delicate hooks hidden in their plumage and are so short that they are quite incapable of lifting the bird 's body high enough to enable it to make a complete wing beat . |
| 11 | In 1990 , he was charged with applying for a copy of a birth certificate in that name and using it to make a fraudulent passport application . |