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

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1 This is particularly noticeable in conifers such as yew , spruce or fir , where it makes the canopy increasingly lace-like or transparent .
2 One measure of the declining influence of the Soviet party was that at the last of three congresses several ruling parties ( the Yugoslav , Albanian , Chinese , Vietnamese and North Korean ) did not attend , and only sixty-one of the seventy-five parties present could be persuaded to sign the final communique without reservations although it made no reference to Soviet leadership of the movement and contained no explicit criticism of the Chinese .
3 The UN Security Council on Oct. 6 voted unanimously to create within 30 days a war crimes commission to examine evidence of " grave breaches of international humanitarian law " in former Yugoslavia ( although it made no provision for further action ) .
4 Although the Chicago School over-used the Darwinian metaphor of the struggle for survival , and although it made the mistake of equating ‘ society ’ or ‘ community ’ with the social systems of relatively small areas , the Chicago School still has much to offer in terms of the new kind of spatial sociology which we started to develop in Chapter 1 .
5 In [ 13 ] , the change of syntactic form , although it makes the sentence more concise , has phonological consequences which appear to be undesirable .
6 Another major concession in the draft law was that it made no provision for stationing Chinese troops in Macao after 1999 .
7 This witticism received rapturous applause and left his speechwriters beaming , no one seemingly bothered by the fact that it made no sense .
8 Even before the advent of the Crown Prosecution Service , the Home Office had extended the hand of friendship to the Lord Chancellor 's Department , recognizing that it made no sense for each of them to prepare their annual public expenditure forecasts in isolation from the other .
9 The answer given to the first certified question was in line with those pronouncements , so even though Viscount Dilhorne was of opinion that the evidence fell short of establishing that Mr. Occhi had consented to the taking of the £6 it was a matter of decision that it made no difference whether or not he had so consented .
10 Perceiving all this , she knew also that it made no difference .
11 These results showed that it made no difference to RISC whether register variables ( hints that variables will be used frequently and should be kept in a register ) were declared or not .
12 I can cheerfully admit that it made no impact on me apart from an overwhelming urge to be violently sick .
13 It should therefore have been aware of the danger that he would try to cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to ( Eagle 's funds ) , but that it made no inquiries about the source of the monies or how he had met his obligations .
14 So far , the ministry has chosen not to explain why it did not act over this matter , to admit that it made a mistake , and to fully compensate all those who have suffered trauma and considerable financial losses as a result of its negligence .
15 Eleanor , ’ she said again , as she began to realise that it made a lot of sense .
16 In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name .
17 Nothing but the best for Lucy , and that meant a month of sober evenings honing every flip phrase so that it made a point .
18 This has no application when the type of substantive error is that the tribunal was improperly constituted , or that it made an order which it was not empowered to make .
19 But it was only because much , too , bore very directly upon the most urgent domestic questions that it made an impact at home .
20 When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air .
21 Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats .
22 I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day .
23 This state of human ability was reached centuries ago , but the power of the hierarchy was such that it made the application of reason to religious belief heretical and punishable , and has successfully delayed its application even into this late twentieth century .
24 ‘ The crying was so loud and so wonderful that it made the people astounded unless they had heard it before ’ ; she ‘ made wondrous faces and expressions ’ too .
25 An additional advantage of this method of presentation is that it made the situation less realistic for subjects .
26 Not that it makes a whits difference to how the team plays or what team Wilko puts out on Saturday .
27 One of the more significant aspects of the panel 's report is that it makes a try at preventing repetitions of the affair .
28 The argument against trickle transfer is that it makes a nonsense of rational rational housing management .
29 not that it makes a lot of difference
30 I am not complaining , only pointing out that it makes a difference to the tone of a campaign .
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