Example sentences of "[conj] it make [det] " in BNC.

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1 This is not the same as assessing its impact on the value of the company , although it makes some attempt to do this , as will be described shortly .
2 War was declared in August 1914 but it was not until the following year that it made much of an impression on the affairs of the Union .
3 Not that it made any difference to the dead .
4 Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy .
5 The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler .
6 And the bleak conclusion is that it makes little difference whether the intruding whites are well- or ill-intentioned : the result , for the Indians , is disease and destruction .
7 His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness .
8 Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally .
9 Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally .
10 Not that it makes much difference . ’
11 I mean , not that it makes much difference these days anyway , but yes , you 're right ; it is a bit soon .
12 By inclination I belong to the second category , but I have learned that it makes all the difference to lay a firm foundation at the outset .
13 This can also happen if a pain is very severe and strong such that it makes all the other symptoms pale into insignificance .
14 This is , in fact , real editing in camera , and when you have become accustomed to the routine you will find that it makes all the difference between a good movie and one which is tedious and irritating to watch .
15 A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews .
16 Not that it makes any difference . ’
17 ‘ Not that it makes any difference , ’ Trent had agreed .
18 ‘ I ca n't see that it makes any difference .
19 In order to recast the problem , however , we need a deeper understanding of the divide between the two approaches , and must enquire why many individualists believe their view to be a decisive refutation of holism , while holists deny that it makes any headway at all .
20 Not that it makes any difference .
21 But Raff speculates that it makes more sense that all cells are suicidal : to survive they have to be constantly reminded by signals from the body that they are loved and cherished .
22 In fact the period seems somewhat variable , so that it makes more sense to talk of a 22-year cycle between one sunspot ‘ high ’ and , not the next , but the one after that .
23 These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : .
24 It seems that it makes more sense to the majority of people if we tell you how much faster ( or slower ) than a common reference machine the test machine is .
25 As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy .
26 The test runs were also performed on a different machine so it makes little sense to compare timings .
27 With 12 players on call from the World Cup compared to the USA 's six , Canada could rely on experience and it made all the difference , especially among the backs where the Eagles paid a heavy price for dropped passes , missed tackles and errant kicks .
28 For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her .
29 Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds
30 There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ?
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