Example sentences of "it makes [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The natural habitat is the coastal waters of West Africa between the Rivers Senegal and Congo , where it makes occasional excursions into freshwater . |
| 2 | It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it . |
| 3 | In the case of cathedrals , it makes increasing demands upon their resources , and the cost of their music is very high . |
| 4 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 5 | It makes specific points under the section on schools : |
| 6 | In practice , unless you have a 486DX — it does not work quite like that because whenever the program is converting it makes such demands on the whole system that everything else is slowed up . |
| 7 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 8 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 9 | It is least successful when it makes stereotypical assumptions about women : that they behave in certain ways because they are mothers , or because they do n't work outside the home , for example . |
| 10 | It generates paper in sickening profusion ; it makes unconscionable demands on the heroes of the piece , the thirteen or fourteen hundred volunteers drawn mainly from ‘ that two-handed engine ’ we pompously call the binary system of higher education … but with all its faults the system works . |
| 11 | It makes several journeys through Spain : for example , there 's a four-day break , available May to October , taking a new high-speed train from Madrid to Seville , visiting Expo 92 , before making tracks on the Al Andalus through the Andalusian hills ( above ) for Cordoba and Granada . |
| 12 | It makes several recommendations about how to improve labelling . |
| 13 | A particular advantage of the telephone interview method is that it makes less demands on the time of managers than conventional ‘ face-to-face ’ interviews . |
| 14 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
| 15 | Producing it makes considerable demands on an animal 's bodily resources and although the silk moth , encouraged by man 's selective breeding , extrudes it in large quantities , most insects are rather more sparing in their use of it . |
| 16 | The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic . |