Example sentences of "[art] [noun] it make [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place .
2 Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God .
3 In the meantime it makes sense for the unit to be stored in a plastic bag but I do look forward to the perfectly waterproof receiver being available in due course .
4 The scientists concluded that it would have been better to leave the beaches alone , but as one commented : " At the time it made sense .
5 The economist John Maynard Keynes advocated just such an approach in the Thirties , arguing that during a recession it made sense because there were idle resources available .
6 No wonder it makes people sick , ’ he said .
7 As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’
8 When a haemophiliac wants to become a butcher it makes sense to discourage him .
9 Predators such as cats can handle only one duck at a time , so if you are a duck it makes sense to sleep in flocks .
10 For the angler who only makes a few sorties a year it makes sense to buy hooks in smaller units like packets of ten .
11 Yes David Price used to you know sort of er sit in our meetings yeah as a treasurer it made sense you know our treasurer and him to work together and all that .
12 ‘ Oh , I 'm sure ! ’ he replied in such a way it made Maggie giggle again .
13 If space is at a premium it makes sense to grow plants with more than one season of interest .
14 If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ?
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