Example sentences of "[pron] makes [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still Life & A Classical Education by Richard Cobb ( Hogarth Press , £9.99 ) — Richard Cobb 's double autobiography has an impressionistic quality , which makes a welcome contrast to the excess of detail and interminable name-dropping of most contemporary memoirs . |
| 2 | The optic tract projects to a number of anatomically distinct regions in the brainstem , each of which makes a unique contribution to visual function . |
| 3 | An innovative attempt to distinguish between the more objectionable forms of cheque-book journalism and the literature which makes a significant contribution to the culture or contributes to the prevention of crime or the rehabilitation of offenders is being made in Victoria , Australia , where the Crimes ( Confiscation of Profits ) Amendment Act 1991 ( Vic. ) , although expanding the concept of ‘ benefit ’ to include the profits of criminal expression , will provide a court with discretion to decide whether or not to treat the profits as a ‘ benefit ’ for the purposes of the Act . |
| 4 | In addition , Colwell et al ( 1978 ) have postulated that abnormal platelet function secondary to the diabetic state may contribute to the development of the specific microvascular disease of diabetics which makes an important contribution to morbidity and mortality in the diabetic population , principally through retinopathy , nephropathy and neuropathy and possibly also a cardiopathy ( Keen & Jarrett , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | By avoiding simplistic assumptions about the united male medical profession manipulating supine female patients , she makes a major contribution to our understanding of a complex part of medical history . |
| 6 | But roots will out and this month she makes a triumphal re-entry to SoHo in a former high-ceilinged , window-fronted exercise studio directly across from the Angelika Film Center on Houston Street . |
| 7 | First Edition JAKARTA ( Reuter ) — Pope John Paul , who makes a controversial visit to the disputed territory of East Timor this week , told Indonesia 's government that human rights and self-determination must be respected . |
| 8 | Put simply , the Record of Achievement could become a Record of Failure , at least for the child who makes a slow start to achievement within the prescribed National Curriculum . |
| 9 | Each individual must believe that the organisation has desirable , significant objectives , and that he makes an indispensable contribution to the objectives of the organisation . |
| 10 | So even if it makes no particular appeal to you , read I beg you , this chapter . |
| 11 | ‘ It makes a great difference to our research work , to both our projects . |
| 12 | * Try to buy Cheddar on the rind — it makes a tremendous difference to the flavour ( like cooking meat on the bone ) , and instantly shows that the cheese has been cut from a truckle and not from a block . |
| 13 | So it makes a refreshing change to able to write about something nice . |
| 14 | It makes a useful addition to cooking too , lending its herby delicacy to dishes as varied as Stilton soup and Hazelnut and orange gâteau . |
| 15 | on balance credit is beneficial , since it makes a useful contribution to the living standards and the economic and social well-being of the majority of British people . |
| 16 | It makes a good contrast to all those clean white jackets on normal club nights . |
| 17 | The dynamic level is quite low , so it makes a good background to a spoken narration or a solo singer . |
| 18 | It makes a sorry epitaph to a great career , ended Emerson 's FI ambitions , wound up breaking up his marriage , alienated the public , caused dissent in his own family and forced Emerson into retirement . |
| 19 | Robert Jackson , for example , envisages a " middle way " as a " study of religions conducted in such a way that it makes a distinctive contribution to the pupils ' development of a coherent and personally satisfying set of beliefs and values " ( Jackson 1987 : 17 ) . |
| 20 | So much modern merchandise is themed with bestselling books that it makes a logical extension to the stock profile . |
| 21 | He is also in charge of an economy so large that it makes a real difference to world trade and to British economic fortunes in particular . |
| 22 | It makes a significant contribution to the local economy through its generation of manufactured goods and the fact that its staff pay tax and national insurance . |
| 23 | Yet with an attractive coupling of three Slavonic Dances winningly done , ending with the bestknown of all , the G minor Furiant , B83 ( Op. 46 ) No. 8 , it makes a valuable addition to what might be counted an over-long list . |
| 24 | Yet in both its anti-art and anti-dada stages it makes a positive contribution to modern art . |
| 25 | It makes an enchanting conclusion to the set , and one which might well influence one 's decision to purchase . |
| 26 | A good plant for shade , it makes an attractive edging to the border under our pergola . |
| 27 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 28 | After a few days of wing stretching and flapping outside the burrow , it makes the perilous trip to the edge of the cliff . |