Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Al Gore falls asleep as he makes maiden speech as Vice-President ; no-one notices — they 're all asleep too . |
| 2 | He makes great videos as well . |
| 3 | He makes good progress until he reaches the cornice , which promptly rejects him in a cascade of cold , powdery ice . |
| 4 | However , if one turns to the report 's tables , based on a growth in energy demand of between 1 and 2 per cent a year , it makes little difference whether gas or coal is the main fuel used to produce electricity . |
| 5 | And the bleak conclusion is that it makes little difference whether the intruding whites are well- or ill-intentioned : the result , for the Indians , is disease and destruction . |
| 6 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 7 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 8 | With club rates varying from £50–£90 per hour depending on which part of the country you reside in , it makes economic sense if you can afford it to join a group — or perhaps if a little more of the folding stuff is available , to buy your own small PFA type or microlight . |
| 9 | It makes great play when the saints ' days of Scotland , Wales and Ireland are due , but St George 's Day is forgotten . |
| 10 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 11 | " I do n't think it makes much difference where we do a bit of scratching , " he said . |
| 12 | First , it makes good sense because everyone understands the language of money as a common denominator which goes across all boundaries . |
| 13 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 14 | well what I 'd like I think I 'd like people to do is go away and read this and see if it makes any sense when you 've actually sat and studied it . |
| 15 | TI says it has switched to a 0.7-micron process from 0.8 , and will be analysing product from every angle before it makes any declarations as to what it 's really getting . |
| 16 | It is not clear whether it makes any difference if those words are omitted . |