Example sentences of "it [verb] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has made a lake of the Mediterranean , a stream of the Atlantic and a winter garden of Algeria ’ . |
| 2 | So it has made a lot of difference . |
| 3 | Since then , it has made a number of startling errors of judgment . |
| 4 | till we get to X equals a one and it starts making a bit of difference , so it 'll probably go like this . |
| 5 | If a bank has a surplus of cash , why might it choose to make a market loan with it rather than giving extra personal loans or mortgages to its customers ? |
| 6 | Not that it seemed to make a lot of difference . |
| 7 | Is it going to make a difference , is it going to change what is essentially not a particularly satisfactory law ? |
| 8 | At this stage it began to make a noise , or , rather , Twoflower started to hear the noise it had been making all along . |
| 9 | For example , what does it cost to make a battery ? |
| 10 | One qualification that should be made to the general formula that Lord Goddard laid down in Hinchcliffe v. Sheldon is that it appears to make a person guilty of obstructing by omission , and the view may be expressed that this is not the law . |
| 11 | Many people have also been distressed when a few minutes after their dog was pronounced dead , it started to make a series of gasping movements . |
| 12 | It means to make a visitor understand how the attempt to annihilate an entire people came to be , and how it was executed . |
| 13 | The revenue figure is 20% down on 1991 and the company revealed it did make a loss last year , though the size was not disclosed . |
| 14 | But it did make a difference — she realized that in the long hours she lay awake thinking about it . |
| 15 | They found that , although it did make a difference in a few cases , most babies got enough iron from solid food to make up for any loss through drinking cow 's milk . |
| 16 | He pointed out that when the council was barred from making further payments on the transactions , it had made a profit . |
| 17 | It acted as a retreat house and training centre for people attached to the Society of Saint Sylvester but , under Racy 's leadership , it had made a name for itself specialising in an area of the church 's work which Theodora thought was undervalued . |
| 18 | Clifford Howard commented on how Hollywood could ignore all criticisms as ‘ mere wind ’ and ‘ envy ’ for it had made a success of its own business and it had displayed ‘ a Yankee genius for sensing the taste of the public and giving the world what it wants ’ . |
| 19 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 20 | In the second half of last year , it had made a loss of £1m , and broke even in the first half of 1992 . |
| 21 | Why initially did the stock market react favourably to the increased dividend declared by Lloyds Bank after it had made a loss of 224 million in the financial year 1986–87 ? |
| 22 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 23 | His unconventionality , his unorthodoxy and his accent all helped the party to feel that it had made a step forward : " the dawn of the new regime " . |
| 24 | . And er it does make a bit of continuity . |
| 25 | But it 's true , it does make a noise . |
| 26 | But when all the please and thank you is unsaid and the little courtesy is undone , it does make a difference to society . |
| 27 | Erm if I put two times brackets three add six it does make a difference . |
| 28 | With his leg and one thing and another it does make a difference having a ‘ phone … |
| 29 | It does make a difference — red wine and an airbed . |
| 30 | Yes , I 'd argue that it does make a difference , because we are announcing the fact that er we are coming along to possibly alert somebody er that we were coming into a building and then hence we encounter even more problems . |