Example sentences of "it made [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It made little difference . |
| 6 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After all , it made little difference : he would persuade Jean-Paul , Jean-Paul would persuade Louise ; the route was more circuitous , that was all . |
| 9 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 10 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 13 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 14 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 20 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 21 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 22 | None of it made any sense . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 24 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 25 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 26 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 27 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 28 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney . |
| 30 | In the course of its report it made several suggestions as to reform of the law to increase the availability of credit by removing what were perceived to be legal handicaps : Specifically , the Banking Commission recommended changes in the law of security . |