Example sentences of "it made [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only real characteristic of each day was that it was the same as the day before and to give any account of such days in strict sequence would make as tedious reading as it made tedious living . |
| 2 | It made sad reading , with five entire families from her street numbered among the dead . |
| 3 | First , it developed the concept of integrated and comprehensive provision ; secondly , in making a connection between school and wage-earning ‘ it successfully rendered the transition as a social and educational process ; thirdly , it made vocational guidance and after-care appear to be essential features of any youth employment scheme ; fourthly , it showed that the service could offer significant opportunities for exercising a personal influence over the adolescent and his family . |
| 4 | Also , it made extra work for the cook . |
| 5 | It was all Isa could do to persuade Wilson to let some light in and dry her tears and tell her what ailed her ; and when she did so , it made little sense . |
| 6 | It never came close to winning an election anywhere and , despite the fears of Harry Pollitt , the Communist leader , it made little impact in London dockland around Wapping . |
| 7 | Even though James V had brought artillery with him to pound the walls , it made little impression , and in the end the besiegers ran out of gunpowder . |
| 8 | The more mischievous may suggest that , as an exercise in the once-discredited art of nationalisation , it was a huge success ; but as an attempt to apply market forces to public services it made little difference . |
| 9 | It made little difference . |
| 10 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |
| 11 | Recently books have been written querying the efficiency and use of Bomber Command aircraft in the night bombing of Germany , and asking whether it did help in the final defeat or whether in fact it made little difference . |
| 12 | After all , it made little difference : he would persuade Jean-Paul , Jean-Paul would persuade Louise ; the route was more circuitous , that was all . |
| 13 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 14 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 15 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 16 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 17 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 18 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 19 | It made little difference as York 's full back Richard Stevenson bamboozled Novos with a hat-trick of exciting tries from set piece moves , the fourth being touched down by scrum half Martyn Harrison in the 49th minute . |
| 20 | At the meeting the SOC finally ceased its efforts to amend the UN draft plan so that it made explicit mention of " genocide " , in reference to the appalling human rights record of the Khmer Rouge government of the late 1970s . |
| 21 | The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution . |
| 22 | It made one manufacturing company re-order its priorities substantially . |
| 23 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 24 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
| 25 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
| 26 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 27 | It made monetary policy difficult , because the meaning of ‘ money ’ was no longer clear . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It made economic sense . |
| 30 | But it made awful mess . |