Example sentences of "it made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
| 32 | Brewin was sold to management by Scandinavian Bank for about £6 million last year , when it made pre-tax profits of £1.4 million on turnover of £14.4 million . |
| 33 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 34 | From time to time , it made cumbersome leaps , trying to mount . |
| 35 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 36 | It made monetary policy difficult , because the meaning of ‘ money ’ was no longer clear . |
| 37 | It made five goals in nine League games for the 29-year-old Scot and earned high praise from Lawrence . |
| 38 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |
| 39 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 40 | It made great strides , especially in America , where Hahnemann 's pupil Dr Constantine Hering finally settled . |
| 41 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 42 | It made economic sense . |
| 43 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 44 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 45 | But it made awful mess . |
| 46 | It made brilliant use of a difficult site and united station and thoroughfare in a most satisfying way . |
| 47 | It made good sense . ’ , |
| 48 | It made good sense , of course , for the writers to celebrate the deeds of prowess of their aristocratic patrons . |
| 49 | The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process . |
| 50 | She looked good , she was quite good fun to be with , it made good business sense … |
| 51 | It made good copy and helped with the film 's publicity ; they also gave an insight into what others thought of Nicholson and the way he saw himself , then . |
| 52 | It made good use of two colours and presented a clear financial summary showing how each pound of income was used . |
| 53 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 54 | And it made better grass . |
| 55 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 56 | It made short work of our Windows performance tests , WinTach , clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3 . |
| 57 | Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network . |
| 58 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |
| 59 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 60 | In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market . |