Example sentences of "it made [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1812 a model of this was sent to the Society of Arts by Hugh , Earl Percy ( later third Duke of Northumberland , q.v. ) , but it made no award of its reaping-machine premium as the invention was ‘ incomplete ’ without proper trials . |
2 | Not only did recognition not stop the fighting , it made no contribution to the solution of the central generator of the war , the Serbian question in Croatia . |
3 | It made no forecast for its business this year , but given the state of the German economy , it is likely to be worse than last year at the operating level . |
4 | It made no forecast for its business this year , but given the state of the German economy , it is likely to be worse than last year at the operating level . |
5 | The British Minister for Sport , Hector Monro , pointed out that the Gleneagles agreement was irrelevant here as it made no reference to actions by one country against the nationals of another , but on 26 February the British High Commissioner in Georgetown was notified that Jackman 's visitor 's permit had been withdrawn and he must leave the country . |
6 | It made no reference to the possibility that schools for the less able might depress expectations and discourage the pupils in them , or make it difficult for such schools to attract an adequate share of available resources . |
7 | One measure of the declining influence of the Soviet party was that at the last of three congresses several ruling parties ( the Yugoslav , Albanian , Chinese , Vietnamese and North Korean ) did not attend , and only sixty-one of the seventy-five parties present could be persuaded to sign the final communique without reservations although it made no reference to Soviet leadership of the movement and contained no explicit criticism of the Chinese . |
8 | Although the 1944 Education Act placed upon all local education authorities the statutory duty to provide adequate facilities for further education , defining further education as full-time or part-time education and leisure-time occupation for persons over compulsory school-leaving age , it made no reference to higher education as such . |
9 | It made no reference to the PLO . |
10 | Iraq rejected it , since it made no reference to the need to provide for a resumption of Iraqi petroleum sales ( currently blocked under the UN embargo ) . |
11 | This witticism received rapturous applause and left his speechwriters beaming , no one seemingly bothered by the fact that it made no sense . |
12 | It made no sense for the British army to hand over Yugoslav royalists to Tito 's communists , he said . |
13 | It made no sense to buy a chair like that . |
14 | It made no sense to her , but then it never had . |
15 | It made no sense and I just swallowed . |
16 | It made no sense — none — yet here in black and white was proof that nothing was the way it had seemed . |
17 | Moreover as inflation began to rise in the 1970s it made no sense to wait before buying ; the price would inevitably be higher if you did so . |
18 | Even before the advent of the Crown Prosecution Service , the Home Office had extended the hand of friendship to the Lord Chancellor 's Department , recognizing that it made no sense for each of them to prepare their annual public expenditure forecasts in isolation from the other . |
19 | It made no sense . |
20 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
21 | This did not merely contradict experiment ; it made no sense at all . |
22 | It made no sense to her , the couplings people chose . |
23 | If it was a member of Connelly 's gang it made no sense , yet who else would know about the shipment ? |
24 | It made no sense to me . ’ |
25 | It made no sense , like many things on Vadinamia just then . |
26 | It made no sense for him to be engineering bad publicity . |
27 | It made no sense . |
28 | It made no sense — no sense at all . |
29 | It made no sense at all , but she was too tired and emotionally battered herself to rationalise about it any more . |
30 | It made no sense to me , but sense |