Example sentences of "[noun] only make " in BNC.
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| 1 | The precepts of Confucius only make sense if the Son of Heaven to whom we offer loyalty and allegiance represents the power and dignity of the people . |
| 2 | Susan clasped her hands because she was trembling , but the tension in her locked fingers only made her shake the more . |
| 3 | Being spurned by Malcolm McLaren only made him want the group more . |
| 4 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 5 | Such policies only make sense to the corporate investors and stem from the perceived need to avoid integrating the industry in any but the core capitalist countries . |
| 6 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 7 | After all , the retailer only makes a profit on the items he sells : if the prices he charges are too high , the customers will go elsewhere and he wo n't make any profit at all ! |
| 8 | Codex at present only makes recommendations but its rules will become international standards with the settlement of the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 9 | The success of German industry in the west only made the people in the east more desperate and paranoid . |
| 10 | If anything , years of experience only made you more aware of what could go wrong . |
| 11 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 12 | Ruth stood silent ; these urgent words only made the deadness inside her worse . |
| 13 | State-owned British Leyland , for example , had ( barely ) managed to get by with each employee only making six cars in 1979 . |
| 14 | Some of these challenges are entirely technical but others are conceptual , stemming from the fact that most methods only make sense if one makes certain assumptions about the brain which may , or may not , be valid . |
| 15 | Sandy lay still for a while , hoping to feel better ; but being flat on her back did n't help , and closing her eyes only made it worse . |
| 16 | But such reconciliatory action only made matters worse , reawakening hostilities in the Marne . |
| 17 | The report in the Bude and Stratton Post , headlined MAROONED ON ROCK only made things worse . |
| 18 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 19 | Yet the first British census of Palestine showed that Jews only made up 11% of the population . |
| 20 | That the Polish Jews were socially , politically and economically quite distinct from German Jews only made the business easier , since the two groups were at loggerheads with each other . |
| 21 | As they are practised in the modern world , high-level teaching and research only make sense in institutions . |
| 22 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 23 | But this lady only makes three appearances , Diane . |
| 24 | But this lady only makes three appearances , Diane . |
| 25 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 26 | For this reason , investments of this type only make sense if the success of a successful outcome is in a traditional field where the rewards are known . |
| 27 | There 's only global versus local processing above that A and B only make sense when seen together . |
| 28 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 29 | If someone were asked , ‘ is salt masculine or feminine ’ , they would be at a loss ; the question only makes sense if they are asked to compare salt with pepper . |
| 30 | Stuffing down our emotions only makes them more powerful . |