Example sentences of "[conj] it make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should also be recognised that while this chapter has stressed the view of language as a process , it is nevertheless the case that , at some point , children do reach a level of mastery where it makes sense to describe them as having acquired knowledge of an abstract set of rules which can be used to express meanings . |
| 2 | where it makes sense and is practicable , the pupil may be moved up or down a key stage for the subject in question by placing him or her in a teaching group in which the majority of pupils are older or younger … |
| 3 | Or it makes nuts and bolts . |
| 4 | The sub-discipline , if such it is , can be regarded as an aspect of stratigraphy , although it makes use of geochemical and geophysical techniques . |
| 5 | The simple statement was delivered with such smug certainty that it made Caroline 's blood heat . |
| 6 | The Bank of England 's new accounts show that it made provisions of £115m ( $100m ) in 1991–92 , against losses incurred in propping up small banks after the collapse of BCCI . |
| 7 | We talked for many weeks , and gradually he genuinely came to see my point of view and to agree that it made sense . |
| 8 | And when William came back from Germany and a decision had to be made about his education , he argued that it made sense to send him to the state school , the same as Preston . |
| 9 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 10 | Without warning , it suddenly let out a blast of the 62 first line of Dixie on a five-tone airhorn , so loud and so unexpected that it made Alina take a startled step back . |
| 11 | There was such an awful mockery in that face that it made Tuan Ti Fo want to strike it with his fist . |
| 12 | Critics of this process of commercialization often pointed to the way that it made journalists less concerned with ‘ the old style of principled journalism ’ . |
| 13 | The hipbelt 's purple padding is deeply grooved at the sides so that it makes contact with the body . |
| 14 | ‘ The effect of the strike is that it makes customers walk away from us , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ The problem with the Touche Ross report is that it makes assumptions that lead it to overestimate the savings associated with smaller , more numerous councils . |
| 16 | Such a usage is still ultimately deictic , in that it makes reference to participant-role , but it is not directly place-deictic ( in that there is no anchorage to the location of the present speech event ) . |
| 17 | Amber Scott , playing Banning 's daughter , entertains the sighing pirates with a ballad of such sick-making sentiment that it makes Shirley Temple look like Billie Holiday . |
| 18 | Amber Scott , playing Banning 's daughter , entertains the sighing pirates with a ballad of such sick-making sentiment that it makes Shirley Temple look like Billie Holiday . |
| 19 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 20 | Includes the classic mod ‘ floater ’ ‘ I 'm So Thankful ’ , a record so cool that it makes Inspector Morse look like The Bill . |
| 21 | It thus lends support to the materialistic view that it makes sense to think of objects in abstraction from a mind which perceives them . |
| 22 | I have certainly tried to argue that it makes sense to talk of God inviting trust by withholding the sort of evidence which might admit of certainty that He exists . |
| 23 | Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ? |
| 24 | It is only if someone can do , has learnt , is master of , such-and-such , that it makes sense to say he had had this experience . |
| 25 | Blue chips such as British Telecom are realising that it makes sense to ‘ take work to the people to overcome a permanent shortage of software engineers in the South East , says Malcolm Lees at BT 's software centre . |
| 26 | But the point is that it makes sense for him to reject such a statement as false on a given occasion , only if he is prepared to admit that in different circumstances the same statement could be true . |
| 27 | But if so , the concept of compresence will have to be revised to accommodate temporal distinctions ; briefly , it will have to be interpreted in such a way that it makes sense to speak of qualities occurring in a temporal sequence as part of a particular 's " biography " . |
| 28 | Mike reckons that it makes sense to be nearer the only regular snow skiing in the British Isles . |
| 29 | The act affected the working of the political system in a number of significant ways so that it makes sense for us to see the constitution in very different terms from those which focused on the balance between King , Lords and Commons . |
| 30 | In recent years , it has been argued that the position and powers of the Prime Minister have altered so considerably that it makes sense to talk about the rise of prime ministerial government and the transformation of the Cabinet into yet another " dignified " part of the constitution . |