Example sentences of "[that] it makes [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Not that it makes a whits difference to how the team plays or what team Wilko puts out on Saturday .
2 One of the more significant aspects of the panel 's report is that it makes a try at preventing repetitions of the affair .
3 The argument against trickle transfer is that it makes a nonsense of rational rational housing management .
4 not that it makes a lot of difference
5 I am not complaining , only pointing out that it makes a difference to the tone of a campaign .
6 But I am saying that the phrase ‘ there occur mental processes ’ does not mean the same sort of thing as ‘ there occur physical processes ’ , and , therefore , that it makes no sense to conjoin or disjoin the two .
7 Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think .
8 The objection was that we can be right or wrong in what we judge , but that it makes no sense to talk of something imprinted , an impression or sensation , being right or wrong .
9 The Government 's desire to assist charities is seen in concessions to individuals , such as Gift Aid , payroll giving and covenants , but the Chairman remarked that it makes no sense if the Institution has to hand the money back , and more through Value Added Tax .
10 One argument advanced for this is that it makes no sense to include mortality data in a formula for resource allocation as dead people make no use of health services .
11 It could be suggested that my argument has merit in relation to undergraduate education , but that it makes no sense at all at the level of postgraduate education .
12 But , in pursuit of joint oversight responsibilities for these facilities in Wales , did the Secretary of State for Wales plead with that Department on the ground of regional policy alone as is pointed out by the Hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan ( Sir R. Gower ) , who is sadly absent today , in his early day motion that it makes no sense to move hi-tech jobs in Government research and development from an area such as south Wales to an overheated area in the south-east of England ?
13 Has the Minister accepted the argument which was put strongly to him and to which he listened carefully that day , that it makes no sense for Northumberland to be forced by Government spending restrictions to cut £3.5 million from its education budget when it spends less per pupil than most other authorities ?
14 An extreme view opposing the ‘ market fundamentals ’ or ‘ true-value ’ approach is that which argues that it makes no sense to talk about an inherent value of a share .
15 Suppose you think abortion is murder and that it makes no difference whether the pregnancy is the result of rape .
16 On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’
17 A final benefit of this highly consistent input impedance is that it makes the choice of interconnecting cables far less significant , relieving this rather contentious subject of much of its ‘ mystery ’ .
18 If , as Anthony Giddens suggests in Central Problems in Social Theory ( 1979 ) , one of the characteristics of ideology is that it makes the present appear natural , then this something else may be the province of ideology .
19 ‘ The meaning of a profession ’ , wrote that great Christian socialist R. H. Tawney , ‘ is that it makes the traitors the exception , not , as they tend to be in industry , the rule . ’
20 The difficulty with this is that it makes the question of A's liability to C turn on what may be a purely technical contravention of the law by A which is of no real concern to C. Further , there are uncertainties in the meaning of ‘ unlawful ’ for this purpose .
21 The main advantage is that it makes the junction much simpler .
22 But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter .
23 The great difficulty with it is that it makes the assumption that there is a coincidence of interest between all of these actors which will lead them to reject the maximisation of their own special interests in the search for unified position against the rest of society .
24 Yeah , but you 're not pointing the pen down , hold the pen up so that it makes the line
25 Because of the low status of part time training and the realisation that it makes the period between registration and achieving a consultant post even longer , the proportion of doctors training part time has dropped as the proportion of women graduates has increased .
26 One danger of treating all crime as sickness is that it makes the criminal a second-class citizen .
27 That is quite a lot ; but why be more ambitious and say that it makes the place of mind in Nature more intelligible to us ?
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