Example sentences of "is [conj] it make " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 An additional advantage of this method of presentation is that it made the situation less realistic for subjects .
3 The other is that it makes it easier to encourage prickly China and France to join in .
4 ‘ The meaning of a profession ’ , wrote that great Christian socialist R. H. Tawney , ‘ is that it makes the traitors the exception , not , as they tend to be in industry , the rule . ’
5 And the bleak conclusion is that it makes little difference whether the intruding whites are well- or ill-intentioned : the result , for the Indians , is disease and destruction .
6 One important thing about a ‘ bottlenecked ’ life cycle is that it makes possible the equivalent of going back to the drawing board .
7 The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions .
8 The interest of this text is that it makes clear both the availability of a remedy against a third party , and the fact that that party has notice of the existence of the trust ; and it apparently limits the availability of the missio to cases where the buyer does have notice : cases , therefore , in which bad faith is involved .
9 The main advantage is that it makes the junction much simpler .
10 One of the more significant aspects of the panel 's report is that it makes a try at preventing repetitions of the affair .
11 The advantage of thinking about paddle strokes in this way is that it makes it clear which style is the real stroke and which is the copy .
12 But what the tār does n't realize is that it makes a perfect target for a gun , stuck up there with its pale fur as clearly visible against the dark rock as the moon is in the sky at night . ’
13 But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter .
14 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 .
15 The beauty of this method is that it makes you aware of the most harmonic choices that are avaible to you on any chosen scale degree .
16 One of the paradoxical achievements of the computational approach is that it makes even very elementary processes seem complex while , at the same time , actually simplifying problems that were once thought complex .
17 ‘ The effect of the strike is that it makes customers walk away from us , ’ he said .
18 A final benefit of this highly consistent input impedance is that it makes the choice of interconnecting cables far less significant , relieving this rather contentious subject of much of its ‘ mystery ’ .
19 The trouble with talking about yourself the way Stuart is doing is that it makes people jump to conclusions .
20 One danger of treating all crime as sickness is that it makes the criminal a second-class citizen .
21 If , as Anthony Giddens suggests in Central Problems in Social Theory ( 1979 ) , one of the characteristics of ideology is that it makes the present appear natural , then this something else may be the province of ideology .
22 The difficulty with this is that it makes the question of A's liability to C turn on what may be a purely technical contravention of the law by A which is of no real concern to C. Further , there are uncertainties in the meaning of ‘ unlawful ’ for this purpose .
23 One argument advanced for this is that it makes no sense to include mortality data in a formula for resource allocation as dead people make no use of health services .
24 But the point is that it makes sense for him to reject such a statement as false on a given occasion , only if he is prepared to admit that in different circumstances the same statement could be true .
25 The major challenge of this development is that it makes it possible to move the emphasis from teaching to learning .
26 Whether you see jumble as giving or refuse disposal , the fact is that it makes up a significant part of the income of small local organisations .
27 The great difficulty with it is that it makes the assumption that there is a coincidence of interest between all of these actors which will lead them to reject the maximisation of their own special interests in the search for unified position against the rest of society .
28 ‘ The problem with the Touche Ross report is that it makes assumptions that lead it to overestimate the savings associated with smaller , more numerous councils .
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 One of the attributes of such a system is that it makes available to all concerned the information they need to discharge their responsibilities .
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