Example sentences of "[subord] it made [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it made Joan happy , fine . |
| 2 | This fitted in neatly with Spencer 's philosophy of self-help as the driving force of evolution , and Lankester drew the obvious implication from his theory by warning that the human race might degenerate if it made life too easy for itself . |
| 3 | There was no answer to her gibe , and , despite the fact that the fumes in the room told her the substance on her hair was likely to blind her if it made contact , she sat up and risked opening one eye . |
| 4 | ‘ What I always say is , if it made sense , it would n't be alien . ’ |
| 5 | It 's growing but it 's not so big a piece of business that we could n't afford to do an acquisition , if it made sense . ’ |
| 6 | That was not going to help him at all , even if it made Humber happier . |
| 7 | The atomic theory thus came by the 1860s to have two functions : it might be a fundamental theory of matter , about which it was appropriate to argue in a very general way ; or it might be a teaching aid , helpful to students who learned it as a dogma because it made sense of a great number of facts . |
| 8 | The Company supplied all churches and chapels in both Wolverton and New Bradwell with free gas , coke and water ( with the exception of the Salvation Army , because it made street and public house collections ) , until nationalisation . |
| 9 | It would have surprised Claudia if Dana did have any money ; she earned a great deal but spent it as fast as she made it , and , while it made sense for Roman to bring her under his wing , Claudia resented it fiercely . |
| 10 | McLeish found himself receiving this with reluctance and wondered why , since it made sense . |
| 11 | The first decision was clearly whether it made sense to concentrate all our resources behind the two core businesses , without foods . |
| 12 | So there came a point when it made sense to change that particular balance . |
| 13 | The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC . |
| 14 | Rex felt the knee as it made contact with his groin . |