Example sentences of "it makes [adj] [noun] [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 | If , for whatever reason , a husband initially commands higher rates of pay than his wife it makes economic sense for him to ‘ specialize ’ in paid work and let her shoulder the brunt of the partnership 's unpaid chores ( Becker , 1981 , 1985 ; for a critique see Owen , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | It makes superb cheese on toast because it melts very easily . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the case of cathedrals , it makes increasing demands upon their resources , and the cost of their music is very high . |
| 6 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 7 | It makes specific points under the section on schools : |
| 8 | It makes extensive use of CLI commands . |
| 9 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | European manufacturers invariably make plain tiles alongside their interlocking tiles , and it makes good sense for a manufacturer to be able to offer both types of product . |
| 12 | It makes good sense for housing associations to buy several houses in adjoining streets for ease of monitoring and staff support . |
| 13 | This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . ) |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure . |
| 16 | It makes particular use of the work of scholars who have conducted ethnographic analyses of discretionary behaviour in legal settings ( e.g. Cicourel , 1968 ; Emerson , 1969 ; Manning , 1977 ; Reiss , 1971 ; Ross , 1970 ; Skolnick , 1966 ; Sudnow , 1965 ) . |
| 17 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic . |
| 20 | To this need the underclass responds , and it makes urban life at the comfortable levels of well-being not only pleasant but possible . |
| 21 | We must ensure that it makes proper progress through the House , receives proper scrutiny and is on the statute book before any rude interruptions . |