Example sentences of "[conj] makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) if he becomes bankrupt or insolvent or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors ; |
| 2 | ( 3 ) if he becomes bankrupt or insolvent or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors ; |
| 3 | ( 4 ) A change in the " content " or " subject " of the learning experience is justified because it enriches the learning experience or makes these experiences more meaningful and thus more developmental ; i.e. we change content as instrumental in making the processes more effective . |
| 4 | If the driver does not respond , a back-up system automatically applies the brakes or makes less engine power available . |
| 5 | The one thing that makes decent family life possible in these unpromising environments is stark drudgery ; the role of the wife and mother involves an endless round of unremitting , indeed , heart-breaking , but thankless , labour . |
| 6 | The Fengtai school , in a suburb of Beijing , has set up a factory that makes hydraulic cylinders for use in the steel industry . |
| 7 | The fastest growing new US business in 1983 was a company that makes indoor exercise equipment . |
| 8 | You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom , and then you 're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you ca n't remember what happens next . ’ |
| 9 | In an attempt to find out , society members gathered at her college to remember their heroine … but is it something in the Somerville air that makes good crime writers ? |
| 10 | Older people may take longer to retrain for new tasks than younger , but not to a degree that makes such retraining not worth while . |
| 11 | The device that makes such issuance , endorsement-negotiation , and registration possible is the ‘ private key . ’ |
| 12 | But , over the past few months , I have been investigating something that makes such abstractions far more impressive . |
| 13 | There are some waters that lie in valleys where the wind has little if any influence on the water , apart from a scurrying ripple that makes little difference to the temperature layers , dissolved oxygen , or food distribution . |
| 14 | When you produce an argument that makes practical sense , then of course I 'm prepared to listen . |
| 15 | Three years ago , Craig Fields was forced out as director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) after Prabhakar , then deputy director of DARPA 's defence sciences office , made a $4 million investment in Gazelle Microcircuits Inc. , a tiny Silicon Valley semiconductor company that makes high-speed gallium arsenide chips . |
| 16 | A curious selection , but one that makes perfect sense once you realise it belongs to Dieter Meier , all-round oddball and the lyrical half of that crazy Swiss duo , Yellow . |
| 17 | If I can think of one thing that makes modern software easy to use leading up to Windows it is the split screen . |
| 18 | It may be this rare combination of sharp wit and soft heart that makes one reader at least believe that this man is marked out for fame . |
| 19 | It is not at all easy to see what it is that makes one thing tough and another brittle because the substances in each of these lists seem to have little enough in common . |
| 20 | THE former Soviet republic of Belarus is hedging its bets on economic reform with a mixture of market moves and old-style administrative measures that makes Western analysts sceptical . |
| 21 | It is all very costly and there is sometimes a limited choice of what is available for your client to sponsor that makes economic sense and will attract media and consumer attention . |
| 22 | They are refreshingly free of the ‘ attitude ’ that makes many bands so tedious to interview . |
| 23 | His final reflection was that ‘ such a picture can not be defined at all until we find a way of describing whatever it is that makes first-rate entertainment what it is ’ . |
| 24 | So we 've combined them in a shampoo that makes dry hair lustrous and more manageable . |
| 25 | that it may entail a level of expertise that makes lay scrutiny difficult ; |
| 26 | More typical of European STM builders is Omicron , a West German specialist in vacuum equipment , and Struers , a Danish company that makes metallurgical equipment . |
| 27 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |
| 28 | It is a tale full of interest , and it reveals an attitude to work and to the Service that makes pleasant reading ( unhappily some authors give the impression they had a less than fulfilling time while in the RAF ) . |
| 29 | Resource limitations may make it impossible to follow one project with the next one on the list , and projects must then be resourced in an order that makes efficient use of the resources available . |
| 30 | Resource limitations may make it impossible to follow one project with the next one on the list , and projects must then be resourced in an order that makes efficient use of the resources available . |