Example sentences of "[vb -s] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ’ , DC 25 . |
| 2 | Paths with whatever surface is chosen can be laid at the start when the beds are being dug or later at a more convenient time , but it does make life easier if they can be finished before planting the beds . |
| 3 | ‘ That scale of operation does make Anthony 's black marketing seem quite trivial , does n't it ? ’ said Julia as they watched the jeep disappearing in a cloud of dust . |
| 4 | The law does make provision for a person on a child-abuse register to know and to challenge that decision but the information does not have to come through the school record . |
| 5 | However , the 1988 Act does make provision for the ‘ whole curriculum ’ ( in section 1 ) . |
| 6 | I am aware that the the Secretary for the erm er Secretary of State 's approval letter to the area alteration does make reference to erm |
| 7 | Does make things look a little black for Andropulos . ’ |
| 8 | Marjorie said , ‘ But surely , once your wife started to make money — she does make money , does n't she ? — surely your mother could n't complain about her being helpless any more ? ’ |
| 9 | However , the idea of having a Science Minister who has other ministerial responsibilities does make sense . |
| 10 | It really does make sense to protect yourself against tetanus . |
| 11 | It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense . |
| 12 | But it does make sense to paint floors last thing at night , giving the paint a chance to dry overnight . |
| 13 | One difference between perceived-as appearances and presentation appearances is that whereas it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about the former it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about the latter . |
| 14 | I said that whereas it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about presentation appearances it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about perceived-as appearances . |
| 15 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 16 | The third reason relates to the fact that whereas it does n't make sense to say ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Sun , it does make sense to talk of other people 's feelings . |
| 17 | But since it does make sense we can employ arguments from analogy to answer factual questions that arise within the language-game . |
| 18 | However , if you need to work particularly closely with specialist or local media it does make sense to get to know the organisations and their needs , and meetings with editors and journalists to see how you can best help each other are a good idea . |
| 19 | The second , which has only one complete sentence out of six units bounded by full stops , very clearly does make sense ( at least it seems fair to predict that for most people it will ) . |
| 20 | It does make sense that the lateral line would be adversely affected by prolonged exposure to unusually high voltage . |
| 21 | She wrote to Jane at the start of her employment : ‘ There are two things I beg you to do : get your time each day in the fresh air and strictly limit the hours you spend on your work , which I have always had to do anyway with such a large family and it does make sense in the end . |
| 22 | Added to that , from an author 's point of view , it really does make sense to by published by the same house for hardback and paperback — partly because of straight-through royalties , but also because the publisher can plan the promotional campaigns properly , and co-ordinate the publications dates . |
| 23 | This extraordinarily convoluted definition , the whole of which is in italics , must have been responsible for deterring thousands of readers from proceeding beyond page 15 of the General Theory , but it does make sense . |
| 24 | Now , as a matter fact I do think that there are contexts in which species selection does make sense . |
| 25 | Theodora really does make attempts on the Christian life , Julia thought . |
| 26 | YOUR super Daily Mirror really does make dreams come true ! |
| 27 | as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book |
| 28 | It 's very unusual to find a senior civil servant in France who ca n't speak either good English or good German or both , and it does make communications a lot easier . |
| 29 | The risk is minimal , but such is the attraction of this form of carving that it is easy to get carried away , and its effectiveness does make eye and respiratory protection essential . |
| 30 | This does not mean that there are no generalizations that can be made about evolution , but it does make biology a different kind of science from physics . |