Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] makes a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 2 | After all , the retailer only makes a profit on the items he sells : if the prices he charges are too high , the customers will go elsewhere and he wo n't make any profit at all ! |
| 3 | Now Lady Mendl was after all a highly successful professional decorator , and whatever her sumptuous simplicities in the matter of table decoration — a little white Ming rabbit at each guest 's place , a remnant of sixteenth-century French green silk brocade used as a tablecloth , one flawless magnolia on the tea tray ( the photograph of her butler carrying this same tray alone makes a copy of the book worth searching for ) — she certainly did n't seriously intend playing them down . |
| 4 | The criterion also makes a claim about localization ; the changes can not be all over the brain but must be concentrated to some specific region . |
| 5 | The Consumer Protection Act also makes a supplier liable if he fails to identify the producer within a reasonable time , having been asked to do so by the claimant . |
| 6 | A Unix machine automatically makes a call to a meter , and reads the information stored there . |
| 7 | ‘ The need is very great but this help really makes a difference to families in this tragic country , ’ |
| 8 | A verb always makes a link and it always represents some kind of movement . |
| 9 | Yet England are short of a cover for Stevens — and that is some shortage — so Parker 's appearance tonight makes a bit of sense . |
| 10 | ‘ My sword never makes a mistake . |
| 11 | In his third ‘ defension ’ from August 19 , 1538 , he declared ‘ Everything is a poison , the dose alone makes a thing not a poison ’ . |
| 12 | Market economics clearly makes a number of effective criticisms of demand management , and its emphasis on the limited competence of government to promote economic growth provides at least a valuable corrective to what became the orthodox political economy of the post-war period . |
| 13 | Having twin and matched secondary windings clearly makes a mains transformer very versatile , but it also means that you have to be rather more careful when wiring it up . |
| 14 | Capirossi rarely makes a mistake and his race strategy is sharp enough to belong to a veteran of a decade of grand prix racing rather than a rank beginner . |
| 15 | That glacial exterior only makes a man the more eager to find it . ’ |
| 16 | Miller also makes a point of mentioning that the fruit of the wild Dog Rose was made into a conserve for medicinal use in his time . |
| 17 | For harmony licks like these you 'll find that where you pick and where you pull off or hammer-on really makes a difference to how the harmony sounds . |
| 18 | Soho Furniture now makes a metal four-poster bed as well as a neat metal-framed side table . |
| 19 | And Jackie Mason never makes a joke without making a serious sociological point . |
| 20 | However , by being over-zealous with food restriction , the dieter inadvertently makes a binge on forbidden foods far more likely . |
| 21 | The trust also makes a commitment to ’ Develop a purpose built ward for Day Surgery at Orsett Hospital . ’ |
| 22 | If a company later makes a claim to carry back trading losses under s 393A(b) ( ii ) ( see my article in ACCOUNTANCY , November 1991 , p 78 ) , this may displace the ACT offsets . |
| 23 | Mum never makes a cup of tea does she ? |
| 24 | Ruth Ann Swenson also makes a sweet voiced Marsinah , and Jerry Hadley sings well as the Caliph , but Valerie Masterson is even more appealing and David Rendall more impassioned . |