Example sentences of "it make [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't it make would n't it make sense to set aside a figure annually for advertising beyond which you do n't go . |
| 2 | Does it make sense to suppose that , as in The Andromeda Strain , members of a crew sent out to recover a satellite would be infected and killed by an exobiological organism it carried ? |
| 3 | Does it make sense to suggest that acellular creatures evolved out of a ‘ reality ’ which is relative only to a human-style perceptive system of mind and sense organ ? |
| 4 | And if Unix is destined to dominate mainstream data processing , does n't it make sense to run it at the desktop as well — why have two different — and ultimately competing — operating system worlds when the expressed ideal is to have everything working seamlessly together from desktop to the multiprocessor servers that threaten to supplant the monolithic mainframe ? |
| 5 | The funds made available through the Farm and Horticultural Development Scheme will be a sound national investment but does it make sense to embark on a programme with a possibility that perhaps after six years the land might be allocated to forestry ? |
| 6 | Does it make sense to buy an annuity ? |
| 7 | In how many shapes does it make people shew themselves ! |
| 8 | Without warning , it suddenly let out a blast of the 62 first line of Dixie on a five-tone airhorn , so loud and so unexpected that it made Alina take a startled step back . |
| 9 | It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p . |
| 10 | Delightful scene ; it made Elizabeth think of Turgenev . |
| 11 | The way he said it made Sally feel like a parcel for delivery . |
| 12 | It made Patrick cringe of course , but the inevitable comparison with his brother was high on the agenda when , clutching his share of the £45,000 winners ' cheque and £15,000 for finishing eighth in the Nabisco points table , he walked into the interview room . |
| 13 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure ! ’ he replied in such a way it made Maggie giggle again . |
| 15 | It made Lydia go to sleep in the afternoon too , which was why she did it . |
| 16 | We never heard the last from Mum about God 's bounty from the vegetable garden ; it made Dad seem like some kind of honorary clergyman . |
| 17 | It was a large tiled room , brightly lit and with the dry , rich smell of animal feed — it made Reynolds realise that there had been no noticeable odour in the corridor at all . |
| 18 | It did a particularly good job of informing people about the issues — especially if they were tabloid press readers , who could get relatively little information from the press ; and it made electors feel more warmth and commitment to the party system and party leaders generally . |
| 19 | It made Gerard determined to try to tackle the material ‘ at the length and depth — and with the budget — it deserved . ’ |
| 20 | It made Karel scared that he was going insane to think how the Gate had bent and folded his time inside his head . |
| 21 | It made Spatz think . |
| 22 | It made Ronni feel a great deal better to say that . |
| 23 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 24 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 25 | It made tingles run up and down our spines . |
| 26 | Somehow , it made Italy seem less far away and her daughter 's behaviour there much less reprehensible . |
| 27 | Holly and ivy , the green leaves of winter … the thought of it made Tallis sing the carol , and Wynne-Jones joined in , adding his cracking voice to the melancholy memory of Christmas festivity . |
| 28 | Horned shapes , scaled figures , shapes with the features of insects and spiders , birds with the faces of young women — it made Tallis shiver to witness this silent gathering of the supernatural forces of so many ages . |
| 29 | As every flat needs to have these service spaces , and such spaces occupy a fixed minimum area in a flat of any size , it made sense to maximise this internal accommodation in order to utilise fully the broad interior , and this was achieved by making the majority of flats one-bedroom or bedsitter units . |
| 30 | Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place . |