Example sentences of "it make [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon she 's overly keen on coke and spends too much time in clubs , but maybe I 'm just jealous ; my cub-reporter status on the Caley and the triumph-of-miniaturisation salary that goes with it make habits that expensive out of the question . |
| 2 | Does n't it make life interesting ? |
| 3 | It made racism respectable and clinical by institutionalising it . |
| 4 | To rapturous applause it made $1.6 million , a world record for any clock at auction . |
| 5 | It made Ianthe uncomfortable to think of so many people living alone . |
| 6 | It made Beesley one of the best-known survivors of the disaster , and for fifty years — right up to the time I met him — he was regularly consulted by maritime historians , film researchers , journalists , souvenir hunters , bores , conspiracy theorists and vexatious litigants . |
| 7 | There was only one way into life , one way through , and one way out , and it made Lydia mad . |
| 8 | It made Edouard alive with happiness . |
| 9 | If it made Joan happy , fine . |
| 10 | If anything , it made matters worse . |
| 11 | It made things worse for Charles that he was responsible for his men 's transfer with him to this wilderness . |
| 12 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 13 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 14 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 15 | Those eyes looked so blue when he was angry like this , and in a way , after last night , it made things easier that he had come now , when there was Faye 's latest problem to think of . |
| 16 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 17 | But it made things difficult for me , at times . |
| 18 | Consumer electronics retailer Dixons Group Plc has bought one of the UK computer superstore pioneers , Vision Technology Group Ltd , which operates the PC World chain of superstores , for about £8.5m in cash and loan notes : Vision Tech was incorporated in 1991 to acquire a group of companies engaged in the sale by mail order of personal computers , peripherals , software and accessories to corporate and educational customers and the individual customers ; it made £400,000 pre-tax on volume of £49.3m last year from its stores in Croydon , West Thurrock , Brentford and Staples Corner , and it has net assets of £800,000 . |
| 19 | It made Ali susceptible when Rowbotham exploded at the idea of pin-ups . |
| 20 | He regretted the Ryans ' intractability because he felt it made Eileen unhappy . |
| 21 | It made Bernice jealous , but she would never let that dictate her behaviour . |
| 22 | It made people conscious that we were in touch with our friends in Burma again and it generated a spirit of confidence that liberation was only a matter of time . |
| 23 | Thirdly , it made people aware of the effect affluence was having on their environment . |
| 24 | Something in the way he said it made Coffin sure he was right . |
| 25 | That was not going to help him at all , even if it made Humber happier . |
| 26 | By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million . |
| 27 | His expression was eager and sly and it made Carrie cautious . |
| 28 | But has it made Greenlanders happier ? |
| 29 | it makes exports cheaper to foreign buyers and imports more expensive to domestic buyers . |
| 30 | You do n't have to , but it is convenient to put solder pins at the input and output terminations ; it makes disconnection easier if this becomes necessary when fitting the unit into a case . |