Example sentences of "[conj] it make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | well what I 'd like I think I 'd like people to do is go away and read this and see if it makes any sense when you 've actually sat and studied it . |
| 62 | Although not all doctors would agree that restless legs are attributable to caffeine , anyone suffering this condition should try avoiding caffeine for a while to see if it makes any difference . |
| 63 | I do n't know if it makes any difference , but it was n't planned . |
| 64 | I think if it makes any difference to you we 've got a thingy whirring away there . |
| 65 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |
| 66 | But it made awful mess . |
| 67 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 68 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 69 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |
| 70 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 71 | This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . ) |
| 72 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 73 | But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure . |
| 74 | I prefer white bread myself , because it makes better toast , but I always get a brown sliced for the cat which likes a little bit of butter with it . |
| 75 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 76 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 77 | In reply , Freud considers the rationalist argument that murder is not engaged in because it makes social life impossible if anyone is allowed to murder anyone else . |
| 78 | These themes are only noted here , because it makes more sense to develop them in Chapter 4 around relevant empirical information . |
| 79 | While it makes little sense to talk of criticism of the physical world , it makes every sense to talk of criticism turned on to the theories and concepts which science has produced to explain the external world , for they could certainly be other than they are.8 Unfortunately , we sometimes give the impression in science and technological education that the current models , terms and theories of science are given and have merely to be assimilated by students . |
| 80 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
| 81 | In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market . |
| 82 | Whether it makes good history or not is another matter . |
| 83 | However , if you have noticed that your spots seem more extravagant following a choc-binge , then perhaps you will have to test and see for yourself whether it makes any difference . |
| 84 | Part of the problem with encouraging girls to take ‘ useful ’ subjects is that we do not know whether it makes any difference to the kinds of jobs they eventually do ; and whether , indeed , these jobs would still be highly rated if women did them . |
| 85 | It is not clear whether it makes any difference if those words are omitted . |
| 86 | I do n't know whether it makes any difference for the price you will get in the land , for the land , from a tenant , if you restrict his rights to use it . |
| 87 | TI says it has switched to a 0.7-micron process from 0.8 , and will be analysing product from every angle before it makes any declarations as to what it 's really getting . |
| 88 | It is least successful when it makes stereotypical assumptions about women : that they behave in certain ways because they are mothers , or because they do n't work outside the home , for example . |
| 89 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 90 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |