Example sentences of "[pron] makes [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to director Phil Alden Robinson 's credit that he manages to invest them with distinct , sympathetic personalities and a taut mutual need which makes their awesome risk-taking seem unquestionable . |
| 2 | Fourthly , however , in all three tendencies there is a curious relationship to history which makes their easy assimilation into historical research difficult . |
| 3 | When he 's off he qualifies for unemployment benefit , which makes their joint income £49 a week plus child benefit . |
| 4 | A rite of reaffirming vows made at baptism and at confirmation , a rite particularly intended for those who have subsequently experienced some sort of dramatic renewal of their Christian life which makes their previous experience of it seem as nothing . |
| 5 | The alienness of Tolkien 's elves , the thing which makes their whole history different from that of humanity , is obviously that ( in the natural course of things ) they do not die . |
| 6 | disorder which makes her frightened to so much as giggle , but break |
| 7 | From this high point of religiosity we descend to an ironic concluding sentence , recalling another leitmotiv which makes its first appearance in passage [ 3 ] : [ 6 ] " Dear me , dear me ! |
| 8 | They will be the first force to use the car , which makes its international competition debut at Monte Carlo next year . |
| 9 | Thurley locates la nouvelle critique in a particular French intellectual tradition , which makes its uncritical adoption in the anglophone academy peculiarly problematical : |
| 10 | In fact , Henry can whistle one tune which makes them all want to follow him . |
| 11 | They have been around since Egyptian times , which makes them one of our oldest decorating materials . |
| 12 | For around £5 each , DIY shops sell locks to fit any kind of window which makes them impossible to open without the right key . |
| 13 | There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system . |
| 14 | They are easy to keep and handle , which makes them suitable for breeding experiments . |
| 15 | The backs of pews were generally panelled which makes them super for panelling a whole room if you can get the quantity , given a bit of designing skill and reworking . |
| 16 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 17 | You know this whole of idea of things and ritual being the holy and that things in the ritual there yes , there are sacred symbols and they need to be handled in that , that , that sense of sacredness , but the that which makes them sacred is the person , our Lord and us in communion with him and with each other and it seems to me that wherever that happens there is sacrament . |
| 18 | To provide training in research methods which makes them capable subsequently of assuming the role of independent scholars and research workers at the highest level . ’ |
| 19 | Some people are very spatially oriented which makes them good with their hands , but even that varies all the way from house building to brain surgery . |
| 20 | The knots running crossways from small ridges on the warp strands , which makes them easy to count , and those running lengthways correspond to each individual weft yarn . |
| 21 | We can accept the less than perfect aspects of a friend — it 's their lack of perfection which makes them endearing , because it lets us have a fault or two ourselves . |
| 22 | Furthermore , there is little about splits in the various branches which makes them understandable as a product of conflict between moderate younger activists and older extremists . |
| 23 | The face-to-face interaction feature of interviews which makes them such a potent source of interviewer bias also makes them an effective device for communicating concern , interest and priorities to interviewees . |
| 24 | ‘ Independent schools have great problems with control of pupils using illegal substances because our pupils are in that socio-economic group which makes them attractive to drug-pushers . ’ |
| 25 | They have a handsome shiny lustre which makes them conspicuous from a distance . |
| 26 | If Catholics get something which makes them happy , then Protestants must have lost something . |
| 27 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 28 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 29 | That makes them victim and hero at the same time , which makes them irresistible — they command both protection and admiration . |
| 30 | PARTICLE accelerators are designed to push as much energy into as small a volume as possible , which makes them big and costly . |