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 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |
| 3 | It makes little difference in any case , one of them had said to him once . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It makes superb cheese on toast because it melts very easily . |
| 6 | As a piece of recording , the Philips set has one advantage in that it makes best use of the excellent John Alldis Choir and puts them well forward , whereas the perfectly good Lyon Opera Chorus is relegated to the middle distance as usual . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the case of cathedrals , it makes increasing demands upon their resources , and the cost of their music is very high . |
| 9 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 10 | It makes specific points under the section on schools : |
| 11 | It makes extensive use of CLI commands . |
| 12 | But unlike the P series , which was made entirely of metal , it makes greater use of plastic , a trend pioneered by the likes of IBM and Hewlett-Packard . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 15 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Let's be fair , now ; I do n't expect it makes much difference to Mrs Morgan , or her cat , " Mr Smith said , and a small smile played over his lips as he glanced at Dan Ashton , who grunted and looked down at his feet while Smith continued , " whether you were joking or in deadly seriousness . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It makes good sense for housing associations to buy several houses in adjoining streets for ease of monitoring and staff support . |
| 20 | It makes better sense as a macellum , or market building , several of which are known in the larger towns of Britain , as well as in some Rhine and Danube frontier towns . |
| 21 | It makes better sense in any event to look for more specific and precise terms . |
| 22 | 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 . ) |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It makes several recommendations about how to improve labelling . |
| 27 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 28 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |