Example sentences of "make [det] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will make that feedback to Jenny so that she 's clear , I think that 's a good way to handle it . |
| 2 | Edinburgh district council estimated the cost of clearing the backlog at £25.5 million and we made that allocation to it over a two-year period . |
| 3 | It looked very different to a nautical chart and made little sense to me , but I gradually deciphered some of the meaning from its weird markings . |
| 4 | Most of the conversation at meal times made little sense to her . |
| 5 | The Doctor 's conversation made little sense to Blake . |
| 6 | County cricket made little concession to spectators . |
| 7 | At the same time Fastolf s attitude to the practicalities of war reflect a hardheadedness which was essentially of this world : the plan which he drew up in 1435 favouring a ‘ tough ’ approach to the war made little concession to romantic ideas of chivalry which would influence a knight 's conduct in war . |
| 8 | InterCity 's dedicated Victoria-Gatwick Express push-pull service launched in 1984 made little difference to domestic services , employing ex-LMR Mark 2f coaches formed into trailer sets with a 1959-type 2-HAP driving trailer converted to a driving van at one end , and a Class 73 locomotive at the other . |
| 9 | For illiterate and landless serfs and peasants the language of their landlord made little difference to their lives . |
| 10 | WOBBLER : Bruce Grobbelaar 's return made little difference to Liverpool 's leaking defence . |
| 11 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 12 | Table 4.2 , which illustrates this , also shows that the state of the local labour market made little difference to the proportion regarding their first jobs as " stop-gap " . |
| 13 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the rates except when the subset of deaths due to immaturity was adjusted for birth weight . |
| 14 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the mortality rates except when birth weight was included in the adjustment for the deaths due to immaturity . |
| 15 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 16 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 17 | Strategically , the Guadalajara débâcle made little difference to either side . |
| 18 | Strocchi et al did not enumerate viable sulphate reducing bacteria in their study , and the addition of 20 mM sulphate to non-methanogenic faecal slurries made little difference to sulphide production , indicating an absence of viable sulphate reducers . |
| 19 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 20 | A purely defensive strategy made little appeal to Pitt and he now eagerly supported a plan devised by Anson to carry the war into enemy waters . |
| 21 | It is best if you make each drawing to the same scale . |
| 22 | Karnataka 's aluminium smelter may make little sense to an energy planner , but it makes a lot of sense to the politically powerful elite that reap the profits , small though they may be , from the production of aluminium . |
| 23 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
| 24 | Large sums of money were being spent on the expansion of arts degree courses whose students would make little contribution to Britain 's economic welfare . |
| 25 | In recent years , despondently , they have concluded ‘ that questions about what the sampo was can never be satisfactorily answered and that even if they could , an answer would probably make little contribution to the understanding of the poems ’ . |
| 26 | Thus , they will make little contribution to the probability of the particle 's going from A to B. But the numbers from the straight paths will add up with the numbers from paths that are almost straight . |
| 27 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 28 | Mr Donovan 's mere financial gain will probably make little difference to him and it is debatable whether his name ‘ has been cleared once and for all ’ as it did not need clearing in the first place . |
| 29 | In this case speed of calculation will make little difference to the performance . |
| 30 | One more would make little difference to him and Seb had first-hand experience of the man 's anger . |