Example sentences of "it [adv] made [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
2 | Although the eighteenth-century house was essentially public with its absence of corridors and its interconnecting rooms , expressing what Henry Wotton had described in 1624 as ‘ the fond Ambition of displaying to a Stranger all our Furniture at one Sight ’ , it nevertheless made generous provision for those who wished to make their journeys privately , within the mind . |
3 | Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg . |
4 | It also made respectable the unfamiliar doctrine of ‘ positive discrimination ’ — going beyond weak doctrines of equality ( perceived as the removal of artificial obstacles ) , to strong doctrines ( based on the conviction that the socially disadvantaged should receive more than , not the same as , their more fortunate contemporaries ) . |
5 | It also made sure of the two points . |
6 | It also made economic sense , he said . |
7 | It also made budgetary options such as the introduction of a broad-based energy tax , or deep defence cuts [ see below ] , politically less viable . |
8 | It also made more money , because every playgoer had a seat and paid a shilling for it . |
9 | It now made open confession of its inability to cope alone with the crisis initiated by Perry 's arrival . |
10 | It really made all difference . ’ |
11 | And it then made possible going by the shortest route . |
12 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
13 | It never made any links with the next ‘ sex and local government ’ moral panic about child abuse in Cleveland in the late eighties . |
14 | And er I went six times and it never made any bloody difference . |
15 | It specifically made visible the gap in post-elementary provision , one to which the subsequent enquiries addressed themselves . |