Example sentences of "it [vb past] to make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them , the survey embodied the scientific method because it sought to make basic observations of the phenomena of interest and out of this formulate generalisations . |
| 2 | The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood . |
| 3 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 4 | ‘ It seemed to make more sense than having Rib Shacks in Reading and Rugby or elsewhere , ’ he said . |
| 5 | One steel factory in Silesia found that it could no longer afford to make the heavily subsidised , high-quality steel it used to produce before the new budgetary regime , so it began to make smaller quantities of low-quality steel , which it found could be exported to Germany at a profit . |
| 6 | Gerver ( 1980 , personal communication ) had reported a high correlation between these measures and foreign language interpreting abilities , and it appeared to make little difference which language the text was presented in . |
| 7 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 8 | The CCC said that in order to make the transition from the current annual payment schedule , which is ordinarily in March , it intended to make three distributions during calendar year 1993 . |