Example sentences of "it make [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | How adequately does it make sense of party politics ? |
| 2 | How adequately does it make sense of British politics and the part played by interests and groups ? |
| 3 | Who should it make fish of one and fowl of another ? |
| 4 | Certainly it made nonsense of their appeal for support within Scotland on the grounds of freeing the kingdom from the tyranny of strangers . |
| 5 | The Bank of England 's new accounts show that it made provisions of £115m ( $100m ) in 1991–92 , against losses incurred in propping up small banks after the collapse of BCCI . |
| 6 | Instead of starting with the birth of Jesus and going on to his ministry , death and resurrection , the first disciples began with the resurrection and showed how it made sense of the rest . |
| 7 | The atomic theory thus came by the 1860s to have two functions : it might be a fundamental theory of matter , about which it was appropriate to argue in a very general way ; or it might be a teaching aid , helpful to students who learned it as a dogma because it made sense of a great number of facts . |
| 8 | It made profits of £5.4 million in the 1990-91 season . |
| 9 | With 1,000 subsidiaries in 100 countries , it made profits of over £273 million last year . |
| 10 | For the most part it made use of trackways already established and ancient , though it is possible that new pieces of track were trampled out where the direct line required it . |
| 11 | But there was one thing about it — it made men of us . |
| 12 | It made mincemeat of CoreTest , returning data transfer rates in excess of 1.5Mb/sec . |
| 13 | If the board is sectioned by coloured tape , and each section clearly headed ( e.g. Introductory Course ; Year 1 ; Year II ; UKCC Royal College of Nursing notices ) , it makes selection of material to be read easier . |
| 14 | The reach of corporatist theory is over ambitious : it makes sense of things but only with respect to some groups ; some issues ; some periods ; and at some levels of the state . |
| 15 | And there is a sense in which this applies , but although I can appreciate his point that seeking a good reputation may well dominate the practical order , if it were also to dominate the activities I have designated ‘ second-order ’ then it makes nonsense of the possibility of ‘ disinterestedness ’ , enjoying something for its own sake . |
| 16 | It makes nonsense of the whole thing . |
| 17 | If rape is defined as ‘ carnal knowledge of a woman without her consent ’ , then it makes nonsense of the proposition that the jury is the trier of fact if the judge takes it upon himself to tell the jury what is or is not consent . |
| 18 | It makes control of the fuel pump that much more precise . |
| 19 | Although this psychobiological structure is unique , it makes use of functional processes that are well established in other higher animals . |
| 20 | However , in order to demonstrate how it makes use of the SSM to complement the other components of the package , its application during the case study is summarised briefly in the following sections . |
| 21 | It makes use of the latest knowledge about language and language learning , but at the same time it has a firm practical basis and is readily usable in the classroom . |
| 22 | And because it makes use of the speed of light for complicated parallel interconnections , it can still handle the large volume of calculations — or weighting as it is called — involved in the learning process quickly . |
| 23 | And be cause it makes use of the speed of light for complicated parallel interconnections , it can still handle the large volume of calculations — or weighting as it is called — involved in the learning process quickly . |
| 24 | Moreover ( and this point has already been appreciated by alert education advisers ) in-service training within the school does not require extra staff , extra equipment or extra classroom space ; it makes use of what is immediately and necessarily available . |
| 25 | It makes use of JPEG for bitmapped clip-art and in terms of features it 's on a par with PhotoFinish and CA-Paint . |
| 26 | It makes use of the existence of a synthetic chemical closely related to glucose , 2-deoxyglucose , or 2-DG . |
| 27 | ART format it makes use of clipart in the . |
| 28 | The sub-discipline , if such it is , can be regarded as an aspect of stratigraphy , although it makes use of geochemical and geophysical techniques . |
| 29 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 30 | Erm and finally , erm in an effort to make it er acceptable , wherever possible it makes use of the wording already agreed between the county council and interested parties . |