Example sentences of "it make a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've used this one in the studio and I 've heard it used live , and in both instances it made a positive contribution to the sound . |
| 2 | Newman was aware that when eugenics was deployed in this way — shorn of its critique of environmentalism — it made a valuable contribution to the philosophical underpinnings of the profession . |
| 3 | He says he was an army officer seconded to the site and it made a remarkable contribution to the war , as well as developing the first computer . |
| 4 | ‘ It makes a great difference to our research work , to both our projects . |
| 5 | * Try to buy Cheddar on the rind — it makes a tremendous difference to the flavour ( like cooking meat on the bone ) , and instantly shows that the cheese has been cut from a truckle and not from a block . |
| 6 | So it makes a refreshing change to able to write about something nice . |
| 7 | It makes a useful addition to cooking too , lending its herby delicacy to dishes as varied as Stilton soup and Hazelnut and orange gâteau . |
| 8 | on balance credit is beneficial , since it makes a useful contribution to the living standards and the economic and social well-being of the majority of British people . |
| 9 | It makes a good contrast to all those clean white jackets on normal club nights . |
| 10 | The dynamic level is quite low , so it makes a good background to a spoken narration or a solo singer . |
| 11 | It makes a sorry epitaph to a great career , ended Emerson 's FI ambitions , wound up breaking up his marriage , alienated the public , caused dissent in his own family and forced Emerson into retirement . |
| 12 | Robert Jackson , for example , envisages a " middle way " as a " study of religions conducted in such a way that it makes a distinctive contribution to the pupils ' development of a coherent and personally satisfying set of beliefs and values " ( Jackson 1987 : 17 ) . |
| 13 | So much modern merchandise is themed with bestselling books that it makes a logical extension to the stock profile . |
| 14 | He is also in charge of an economy so large that it makes a real difference to world trade and to British economic fortunes in particular . |
| 15 | It makes a significant contribution to the local economy through its generation of manufactured goods and the fact that its staff pay tax and national insurance . |
| 16 | Yet with an attractive coupling of three Slavonic Dances winningly done , ending with the bestknown of all , the G minor Furiant , B83 ( Op. 46 ) No. 8 , it makes a valuable addition to what might be counted an over-long list . |
| 17 | Yet in both its anti-art and anti-dada stages it makes a positive contribution to modern art . |