Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 2 | Hence Juice was probably not as big a box-office success as it might have been , although it did make money . |
| 3 | That it had made contact was evident , for Sister Mary let out a cry , a weird sound that was rather a yell not a scream . |
| 4 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 5 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 6 | He 'd said something similar once before and it had made Ronni feel a tiny bit guilty . |
| 7 | Deciding this was a success , last autumn Marlow announced a £37m investment to expand annual production six-fold at its Stokesley plant in Cleveland from 1,200 to 7,000 tonnes , and it decided to make Quorn au naturel available nationwide . |
| 8 | It was an ever increasing thing that blew up because it got a little too big , but it did make David a star and he has dealt with it really well , and is a man who does wonderful work . |
| 9 | It offended the religious , because it seemed to make God out to be untruthful or deceitful ; in the scientific age , science was after all a route to truth , and only the Devil was the father of lies . |
| 10 | In addition , Lord Meston submits that the court also had ‘ rights of custody ’ in the context of the Convention , because it had made orders in the course of the cross-motions before it which indicated that it was seized of the matter and that it had not determined either the father 's or the mother 's substantive applications and had adjourned the hearing of the mother 's substantive application for custody and for leave to remove the child from the jurisdiction until a date in August . |