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

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1 Did it make inessential demands on the teacher ? 12 .
2 It makes superb cheese on toast because it melts very easily .
3 It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it .
4 This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . )
5 It generates paper in sickening profusion ; it makes unconscionable demands on the heroes of the piece , the thirteen or fourteen hundred volunteers drawn mainly from ‘ that two-handed engine ’ we pompously call the binary system of higher education … but with all its faults the system works .
6 It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff .
7 Producing it makes considerable demands on an animal 's bodily resources and although the silk moth , encouraged by man 's selective breeding , extrudes it in large quantities , most insects are rather more sparing in their use of it .
8 The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic .
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