Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atomic theory thus came by the 1860s to have two functions : it might be a fundamental theory of matter , about which it was appropriate to argue in a very general way ; or it might be a teaching aid , helpful to students who learned it as a dogma because it made sense of a great number of facts . |
| 2 | I have come to the same conclusion that some a method of appointment is in fact right and it makes sense . |
| 3 | So there came a point when it made sense to change that particular balance . |
| 4 | The trouble with fitness is that it leads to mistakes about evolution because it makes people think in terms of qualitative terms . |
| 5 | ‘ If he is dead , and she dies too , that letter 's evidence whether it makes sense or not . |
| 6 | This needs careful planning and it makes sense to start saving early . |
| 7 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 8 | Opponents of the Government have criticised the policy because it makes unions responsible for disruption which they have not organised and in some cases may oppose . |
| 9 | However , this counter-argument in turn assumes that the requirement of sufficient interest is a liberal standing rule in the sense that it makes access to the courts to challenge administrative action very easy , and so shifts the burden of weeding out weak cases to other mechanisms . |
| 10 | The filopodia pull the sheet right across the cavity until it makes contact with the other side where it meets and fuses with another but much smaller invagination which is the future mouth . |
| 11 | The simple statement was delivered with such smug certainty that it made Caroline 's blood heat . |
| 12 | Rex felt the knee as it made contact with his groin . |
| 13 | It should also be recognised that while this chapter has stressed the view of language as a process , it is nevertheless the case that , at some point , children do reach a level of mastery where it makes sense to describe them as having acquired knowledge of an abstract set of rules which can be used to express meanings . |
| 14 | Critics of this process of commercialization often pointed to the way that it made journalists less concerned with ‘ the old style of principled journalism ’ . |
| 15 | But if so , the concept of compresence will have to be revised to accommodate temporal distinctions ; briefly , it will have to be interpreted in such a way that it makes sense to speak of qualities occurring in a temporal sequence as part of a particular 's " biography " . |
| 16 | The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC . |
| 17 | Amber Scott , playing Banning 's daughter , entertains the sighing pirates with a ballad of such sick-making sentiment that it makes Shirley Temple look like Billie Holiday . |
| 18 | Amber Scott , playing Banning 's daughter , entertains the sighing pirates with a ballad of such sick-making sentiment that it makes Shirley Temple look like Billie Holiday . |
| 19 | There is a metaphysics of ontological realism underlying the conception of variable analysis , if only to the extent that it makes sense to talk of indices only if it is assumed that they " stand for " something . |
| 20 | There was such an awful mockery in that face that it made Tuan Ti Fo want to strike it with his fist . |
| 21 | It thus lends support to the materialistic view that it makes sense to think of objects in abstraction from a mind which perceives them . |
| 22 | But it projected enthusiasm , delight and knowledge right through the television screen and it made Peter within a few months well-known to millions of people who had never imagined that they had any interest in natural history . |
| 23 | It also depends upon a curious form of photosynthesis when it makes sugar from carbon dioxide , water and sunlight . |