Example sentences of "[noun] makes [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of these broad parameters makes itself felt in the opening pages of the Report , to the extent that the Committee is prepared to revise its very terms of reference in the light of its wider concerns . |
| 2 | So that old kung fu contradiction appears yet again : by doubling his striking power the practitioner makes himself twice as vulnerable . |
| 3 | This is how nature makes herself audible ( 364 ) . |
| 4 | And Liz makes herself look |
| 5 | The military priority makes itself felt throughout society , but ‘ military goals and values are important because of the values of civilians ’ . |
| 6 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |
| 7 | Here is the unique point at which the fitful indeterminacy of quantum theory makes itself felt . |
| 8 | The second theme is set by the title — the self-made man — which harks back to Gordon Childe 's Man Makes Himself ( 1936 ) . |
| 9 | Under the new covenant Yahweh makes himself present to his people as Spirit ( which seems to be the meaning of ‘ Now the Lord is the Spirit ’ 2 Cor 3:17 ) ; d such his presence IS constant , unwithdrawn and steady The divine presence , concentrated in Christ , and universalised through his death and resurrection , becomes available to transform his people . |
| 10 | Keith makes himself go to work . |
| 11 | What culture tries to make out of them seems attainable only at the cost of a sensible loss of pleasure ; the persistence of the impulses that are not enrolled in adult sexual activity makes itself felt in an absence of satisfaction . |
| 12 | Time and again when we think that we have nailed the political , military , and economic aspects of huge missionary undertakings , another point of view makes itself apparent , sometimes quite unexpectedly , in the sources . |
| 13 | John makes himself smile . |
| 14 | In soft brass passages it provides a perfectly satisfactory bass by itself , but in loud ones the difference in quality between its ‘ blunt ’ tones and the ‘ sharp ’ utterance of the trumpets and trombones makes itself felt . |