Example sentences of "[noun] it make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evans ' caution , however , is understandable , and until the effectiveness or otherwise of more elaborate organizations could be tested in a variety of settings it made sense to list more modest requirements for supportive bases to innovative and resource-based work . |
| 2 | In practice it makes mistakes all the time but Horizon showed its English as flawless . |
| 3 | ‘ No wonder it makes people sick , ’ he said . |
| 4 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place . |
| 6 | This impotence is inherent in the Keynesian approach to policy and not merely a feature of a specific version of that approach ; for by its very nature it makes government influences on aggregate demand predictable in that it links government policy changes to the current or past state of the economy . |
| 7 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 8 | I think that a sense of humour is a very important quality ( besides honesty , loyalty etc ) because I believe that if you can laugh at things it makes life a whole lot easier . |
| 9 | When a haemophiliac wants to become a butcher it makes sense to discourage him . |
| 10 | To rapturous applause it made $1.6 million , a world record for any clock at auction . |
| 11 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 12 | In terms of selection theory it makes sense for an incoming male to kill the young , for the females then come into oestrus quickly and he can get his genes into the assembly line at the earliest opportunity . |
| 13 | When she discovered Camilla had acted as Charles 's unofficial hostess at Highgrove functions in her absence it made Diana loathe the place even more . |
| 14 | For the first time in my life it made sense . |
| 15 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 16 | The economist John Maynard Keynes advocated just such an approach in the Thirties , arguing that during a recession it made sense because there were idle resources available . |
| 17 | For the most part it made use of trackways already established and ancient , though it is possible that new pieces of track were trampled out where the direct line required it . |
| 18 | ‘ No pressure , but now that I know about Francisco it makes sense to leave them as soon as I find something suitable . ’ |
| 19 | Of course it made Carvin virtually unobtainable in this country , but now ABC Music have stepped into the breach to provide a UK retail outlet . |
| 20 | Of course it made Jews feel more Jewish . |
| 21 | In these difficult times it makes sense to look again at this post . |
| 22 | Now that we are facing demands to keep the most detailed records of children 's progress it makes sense to involve children in some of this work . |
| 23 | Asked whether , in this increasingly environment-conscious world it made sense to use expensive oak or metal caskets , Miss Vincent said . |
| 24 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 25 | Predators such as cats can handle only one duck at a time , so if you are a duck it makes sense to sleep in flocks . |
| 26 | If an illness has multiple causes it makes sense to attack it on several fronts at once . |
| 27 | And be cause it makes use of the speed of light for complicated parallel interconnections , it can still handle the large volume of calculations — or weighting as it is called — involved in the learning process quickly . |
| 28 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure ! ’ he replied in such a way it made Maggie giggle again . |
| 30 | Either way it made sense to maintain some degree of detachment . |