Example sentences of "that it make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing but the best for Lucy , and that meant a month of sober evenings honing every flip phrase so that it made a point . |
| 2 | This witticism received rapturous applause and left his speechwriters beaming , no one seemingly bothered by the fact that it made no sense . |
| 3 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 4 | So far , the ministry has chosen not to explain why it did not act over this matter , to admit that it made a mistake , and to fully compensate all those who have suffered trauma and considerable financial losses as a result of its negligence . |
| 5 | Carrying to the block a lump so heavy that it made his shoulders ache , he jerked his head towards the end of the stables and asked , panting : ‘ What 's down there ? ’ |
| 6 | One moment halfway up the straight it looked as if Eddery might have cut it too fine ; the next it was a question of how far he would win by , for this burst of speed was so decisive that it made the top horses in Europe look one-paced . |
| 7 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 8 | Its lack of significance is that it made no real difference to the political situation , except for putting the burgh of Edinburgh through a rapid change of councils and giving it the burden of housing the army of the Congregation . |
| 9 | I recall from when I saw it later that it made excellent footage . |
| 10 | Despite some criticisms that it made him look like Michael Foot , it was a media success . |
| 11 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 12 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 13 | Secretary Jackie Onstenk commented that it made ‘ an enormous difference ’ to have them living on the Down . |
| 14 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 15 | I knew that it made , besides such things as textiles , the remarkable Oerlikon guns and that it was part of the Oerlikon-Buhrle Group , employing some 40 000 people , mostly in Europe , but also in the US and Japan . |
| 16 | This state of human ability was reached centuries ago , but the power of the hierarchy was such that it made the application of reason to religious belief heretical and punishable , and has successfully delayed its application even into this late twentieth century . |
| 17 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 18 | The doughmen could tell by the feel of the dough , and by the sound that it made during mixing , if it was too dry or too wet , and add small amounts of required ingredients to compensate . |
| 19 | It should therefore have been aware of the danger that he would try to cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to ( Eagle 's funds ) , but that it made no inquiries about the source of the monies or how he had met his obligations . |
| 20 | So far , Intergraph is more than satisfied that it made the correct decision when it selected Chameleon . |
| 21 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 22 | I can cheerfully admit that it made no impact on me apart from an overwhelming urge to be violently sick . |
| 23 | We talked for many weeks , and gradually he genuinely came to see my point of view and to agree that it made sense . |
| 24 | ‘ The crying was so loud and so wonderful that it made the people astounded unless they had heard it before ’ ; she ‘ made wondrous faces and expressions ’ too . |
| 25 | Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats . |
| 26 | When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air . |
| 27 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 28 | The economic significance of this division was that it made possible a very high rate of saving . |
| 29 | Critics of this process of commercialization often pointed to the way that it made journalists less concerned with ‘ the old style of principled journalism ’ . |
| 30 | War was declared in August 1914 but it was not until the following year that it made much of an impression on the affairs of the Union . |