Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide .
2 The test runs were also performed on a different machine so it makes little sense to compare timings .
3 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 .
4 Have it written as a P E P and it makes good sense .
5 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 ) .
6 The detailed administration of applications is handled by a full-time Modular Admissions Officer who draws on clerical support from within the Registry and who makes substantial use of the central computer services .
7 He says there are a number of ecological as well as economic reasons — it 's a longer , stronger tougher fibre — it makes a longer-lasting paper and it makes economic sense to grow the material in this country rather than importing it .
8 In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’
9 Some of these challenges are entirely technical but others are conceptual , stemming from the fact that most methods only make sense if one makes certain assumptions about the brain which may , or may not , be valid .
10 My orders , and so you may tell Araminta if she makes any objection .
11 That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one !
12 An example of this is the way that he makes big things seem really unimportant , and trivialities seem very important .
13 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 .
14 He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable .
15 Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally .
16 Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally .
17 Alina leans on the rail beside Angelica , both of them looking down at Walter as he makes another thrust into the darkness beneath them .
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