Example sentences of "[verb] it make [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balor did not grudge offering guests a mite of good wine , because it was only polite , but there was no denying it made inroads on your hoard . |
| 2 | ‘ If you are bullied and you cry it makes things ten times worse . |
| 3 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 4 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 5 | The traditionalism of egalitarian feminist psychology gains it a hearing in the conventional discipline , and allows it to make changes within the established framework . |
| 6 | Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’ |
| 7 | In 1987 the bank raised £700m in a rights issue , only to use it to make provisions of £1.02bn against sovereign debt , a move that pushed the Midland into its first ever loss . |
| 8 | With one to match every mood , you know it makes scents ! |
| 9 | WHITBREAD , the brewer and retailer , yesterday warned that mounting bad debts in its economically-troubled heartland of southern England will force it to make provisions totalling about £47m in the full-year to the end of February . |
| 10 | And I must confess I find it makes things easier . |
| 11 | Supporters claim it makes jails easier to manage . |
| 12 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |
| 13 | Patricof plans to invest further sums in Neill allowing it to make acquisitions on the Continent . |
| 14 | We do n't want it to make teachers more accountable . |
| 15 | Under Section 26 of the Local Government Finance Act 1982 , the Commission has a duty to undertake comparative and other studies to enable it to make recommendations for improving VFM . |
| 16 | Section 26 gives the Commission power to undertake studies designed to enable it to make recommendations for improving authorities ' ‘ economy , efficiency and effectiveness ’ . |
| 17 | Already in Predynastic times they were using it to make beads , and throughout the Dynastic period it was employed together with lapis lazuli , carnelian and coloured glass to infill cloisonné work on jewellery , notably on the breast ornaments worn by Tutankhamun ( Plate I ) . |
| 18 | The success of the 1990 ADT London Marathon has allowed it to make grants totalling £247,300 to London Boroughs . |
| 19 | Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects . |
| 20 | erm I think it made things a lot cheaper , because you had larger firms able , able to buy in bulk , and also the beginnings of the ready-made market . |
| 21 | Once you 've built a fully computerized factory , you can take out the lights , shut the door and leave it to make engines or vacuum cleaners or whatever , all on its own in the dark . |
| 22 | Its clean-cut image , it is hoped , may help it to make advances where the scruffier tendencies in lesbian and gay politics have failed . |