Example sentences of "which make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hear breathing , slow and heavy , the sweet breath of God , which made all things come alive . |
| 2 | Dermot looked round briefly at Patsy and Ellie and then said something to his two brothers which made all three of them laugh . |
| 3 | There was a biting wind from the right which made all the dead winter stems rattle and rustle feverishly . |
| 4 | In December 1936 a decree was issued which made all volunteer forces subject to military jurisdiction . |
| 5 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 6 | But it would seem to be impossible for us to return to patristic sensibilities , for the framework of thought which made that Christology possible is no longer with us . |
| 7 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 8 | But towards the end of the eighteenth century the courts developed what Jay Cohen calls ‘ a more expansive definition ’ of the term , which made many non-traders eligible for discharge in bankruptcy . |
| 9 | Sixth , the leadership demonstrated abysmal judgment , evinced by the distasteful triumphalism in Sheffield , which made many supporters cringe , and waverers recoil . |
| 10 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 11 | Moreover he omits , virtually without mention , the extraordinary improvements made in English industrial life , and elsewhere , in the second half of the nineteenth century and which made many of these towns what they are today . |
| 12 | In the non-European world it was the requirement to provide separate facilities for a complex hierarchy of class and race which made many railway stations larger affairs than they need otherwise have been . |
| 13 | MGM , which made such classics as Gone With the Wind and The Wizard Of Oz , has been in turmoil ever since being bought by controversial Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti last year . |
| 14 | Alas , little now remains of this once-thriving community , which made such an important cultural contribution to Prague , and indeed to Judaism . |
| 15 | Pissarro 's interest lay , however , in the industrial bustle of the city 's south bank which made such a striking contrast to the medieval architecture of the old centre . |
| 16 | The most significant developments occurred in Scandinavia where there was a long tradition of limited cooperation , or at least of a belief in a common cultural area which made such cooperation valuable , if not almost inevitable . |
| 17 | Certainly the grave demeanour which made such an impression upon others — the " sad eyes " and the " deep , sad voice " — was lifted in the company of friends to reveal a playful and often funny man . |
| 18 | Significantly , my own memory is only of the large wave-forms which made such a maelstrom possible . |
| 19 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 20 | After the Reformation these traditions were regularized in a unique Poor Law which made each parish responsible for its own poor , and obliged it to finance its aid by levying a poor rate on its inhabitants . |
| 21 | You made assumptions which made those parts of me invisible , that shamed it into retreat , that said , ‘ You 're really like us . |
| 22 | Perhaps the strangest talisman — and one ( or should one say many … ? ) which made those initiates feel themselves intimately a part of the Fists — was kept in a long crypt below the Reclusiam , reached by a dropshaft which would incinerate anyone who did not sport a Black Carapace beneath their skin . |
| 23 | They also carried the names of mint and moneyer , which made those responsible for sub-standard specimens easier to trace . |
| 24 | On the contrary , for all the general flow of tranquillity and prosperity , a number of specific themes consistently emerged which made this a time of anxiety , even torment . |
| 25 | I had not yet learnt that every German soldier from private upwards had had an elementary political education which made this sort of argument child 's play for him . |
| 26 | As he looked at her , slumped awkwardly in sleep , he tried without success to put his finger on that indefinable something which made this girl so totally English . |
| 27 | The last prewar years have been called ‘ the golden age of international economic specialization and exchange ’ , and the organization which made this golden age possible , an intricate and massive structure tying , for the first time , every continent into one economic process , was completed between 1880 and 1914 . |
| 28 | And the same change throughout the industry can be accounted for by the functional fact that only those firms which made this change would have survived the competition . |
| 29 | It was lawyer C's job to translate the issue into a form which made this possible . |
| 30 | Gaps were pinpointed which made this potentially excellent tool incomplete and hopes were fervently expressed that , as the funding from the Getty has come to an end , resources can be found to keep the system running and continued input assured . |