Example sentences of "it [adv] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Over the last 2000 years the Church has thought it right to make many changes : in patterns of ministry , in liturgical forms , in ethical emphasis , in doctrine .
2 You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did .
3 It 's hell here really let's face it so make all speed to the Moynihans at Toulon .
4 Well I just wondered if turning it down made any difference .
5 If it just makes ten people change their minds then it is worthwhile .
6 It just makes more sense .
7 ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’
8 Would it not make administrative sense if at least part of this site could be reserved specifically for the British Library so that in any future extension , these units could be incorporated ?
9 Given the success in getting the Israelis and Palestinians round the table , would it not make more sense for the Government to right that wrong and ensure that , during our presidency from July onwards , we talk directly to the PLO ?
10 Would it not make more sense to have a moratorium on pit closures in the interests of jobs , the balance of payments and European energy conservation ?
11 It was now 6.22am , and their ETA at Koepang was 7.15am , so Wood decided that altering course any further was not worthwhile , as they were near enough to Timor for it not to make much difference .
12 Although the eighteenth-century house was essentially public with its absence of corridors and its interconnecting rooms , expressing what Henry Wotton had described in 1624 as ‘ the fond Ambition of displaying to a Stranger all our Furniture at one Sight ’ , it nevertheless made generous provision for those who wished to make their journeys privately , within the mind .
13 It admittedly makes intuitive sense , and fits in with the general observation about staffs ' professional identities being a function of their research identities .
14 Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg .
15 It also made economic sense , he said .
16 It also made budgetary options such as the introduction of a broad-based energy tax , or deep defence cuts [ see below ] , politically less viable .
17 It also made more money , because every playgoer had a seat and paid a shilling for it .
18 Educational assistance not only benefits the individual — it also makes sound business sense .
19 It also makes more sense when it comes to keeping to your target weight once you have reached it .
20 It also makes these prices more responsive to changes in the general level of interest rates than is the case with money market instruments .
21 It also makes some changes in the existing law to remedy shortcomings revealed by experience , and contains some new provisions designed to enable the United Kingdom to ratify the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters of 1968 ( Cmnd 3991 of 1969 ) .
22 It also makes local government less attractive employer .
23 No , what I meant , is if saying that if I camped onto that number over there 3414 , and if that phone becomes free , this phone starts ringing and I might be doing something , so by the time I 've picked it up to make that connection , suppose 3414 is then making another outgoing call , do I have to camp on yet again to 3414 ?
24 The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy .
25 and then it wo n't be sticky , I ca n't roll it out to make those shapes at the moment cos it 's too sticky , yes we 're gon na have to stick it in the fridge and when it comes out it will be just ready then .
26 It now made open confession of its inability to cope alone with the crisis initiated by Perry 's arrival .
27 It now makes perfect sense to give a remedy that is capable of bringing about the same or very similar healing responses , that is symptoms , to the healing response which is occurring in the patient as shown by his individual symptoms .
28 It really made all difference . ’
29 It really makes that room .
30 But , in the days of computer simulations , it surely makes little sense to crank the whole military-industrial complex up to producing a great fleet of YF-22s .
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