Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] make the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central to this ‘ new consensus , was a concern with the complex and multi-layered nature of organizations which makes the very possibility of rational decision-making problematic . |
| 2 | A wind such as East Anglia only knows , cruel , ‘ lazy ’ ( too lazy to go round you , going through you instead ) , a wind which made the old ladies in the town say : ‘ Oi 've got me thermals on ’ . |
| 3 | Could they liaise more with external agencies to develop a co-ordinated programme which makes the best use of their respective strengths ? |
| 4 | I just let out a giggle of disbelief which made the old gecko who ran the class flutter his ruff at me in disapproval ; I calmed him with a quip and continued the negotiations with my round and financially tenacious new chum . |
| 5 | Study the competition , the commercials and the advertisements of other manufacturers who make the same thing . |
| 6 | The infamous John Carlos who made the black power gesture on the Olympic rostrum in 1968 became a source of inspiration : ‘ I said ‘ yeah , I 'd like to be there . ’ ’ |
| 7 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |
| 8 | The different budgets maintained by health and local authorities which made the desired shift in resources from health to social services difficult to organize . |
| 9 | The feature of most interest is sentence length , because when we estimate the contribution made by each feature to the total amount of time spent reading , it is the number of words in a sentence which makes the largest difference between the two groups . |
| 10 | This period therefore saw the culmination of tendencies already visible in previous generations which made the diplomatic services of Europe more technically efficient than ever before . |
| 11 | The steering committee which made the late changes to the report consisted of representatives from the European Commission , the lead additives companies Associated octel , Ethyl and SIAC , the International Lead and Zinc Research organisation , Agip Petrol and the United States ' Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 12 | It will all depend on the choice to be made by the national legislatures , and in the case of countries which make the third choice the employee 's option not to transfer may give the worker no more than he or she already has under the Mikkelsen doctrine i.e. the option of going over or resigning from employment with the transferor . |
| 13 | Two alternative explanations can be proposed : 1 ) the C-terminal part of α-subunit makes contacts with the upstream region of the promoter ; 2 ) the C-terminal deletion of α induces a conformational change in RNA polymerase which makes the truncated holoenzyme unable to bind to the upstream part of the promoter . |
| 14 | Long hours of sedentary work were linked to the consumption which made the poor tailor the " wretched emblem of death " . |
| 15 | Although Libyans recognized that many members of tribes were ‘ written ’ , or attached in other ways , the central notion was that the loyalties and obligations which made the stateless system work were part of a person 's equipment at birth . |
| 16 | Instead it was the visitors who made the early running , albeit by the narrowest of margins in the first three games . |
| 17 | It was Janice who made the first move to end the evening . |
| 18 | We felt that it was a great tribute to us and all our many comrades who made the supreme sacrifice . |
| 19 | Dr. Noel Boaz from New York University who made the original classification of the bone , is counter-attacking . |
| 20 | The other titled tots who make the major money league are the four kids of Jordan 's Queen Noor and King Hussein . |
| 21 | Members of the Fylde Bird Group , together with volunteer employees , have installed a number of bird boxes to prepare the ground for an investigation into the vast numbers of birds who make the nuclear fuel plant their home . |
| 22 | " Only the Commander was upset with nerves on account of a remark I made the other night . |
| 23 | At first the family gather round it and at the end as the actors steal away into the darkness it is the piano which makes the final sounds . |
| 24 | At first the family gathers round it and at the end , as the actors steal away into the darkness , it is the piano which makes the final sounds . |
| 25 | It is a curious method of story-telling which makes the five characters seem remote and alone , their lives never quite real . |
| 26 | This will produce the same triumphant progress only if ‘ the intellectual and moral faculties of man ’ are not of a deeply peculiar sort which makes the social world radically unlike the natural . |
| 27 | Amateur archaeology , agricultural crop survey to check disease , low-level views of landscaped gardens , housing or industrial buildings and souvenir photographs of your local flying site are all possibilities which make the camera-kite combination so attractive . |
| 28 | Any vibration which makes the surrounding molecules of air vibrate can cause sound . |
| 29 | Quite often it is the clearing banks which make the first move by announcing a base rate change before the Bank alters its intervention rates . |
| 30 | It may be comforting if you can acknowledge that in any moment you make the best choices you are able to in the situations in which you find yourself . |