Example sentences of "[that] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genetics may contribute to a specific vulnerability , or may operate indirectly by predisposing to obesity or personality traits that make restrictive dieting and anorexia nervosa more likely . |
| 2 | Another popular type has moulded plastic prongs that make spaced holes when pressed into the compost . |
| 3 | The information is transmitted vertically to other DNA in cells ( that make other cells ) that make sperms or eggs . |
| 4 | And Disney 's current production run is being financed partly by $200m given by a group of Japanese investors on terms that make other studios green with envy . |
| 5 | They recommend measures that make economic sense regardless of whether or not global warming is occurring , such as limiting deforestation and increasing energy efficiency . |
| 6 | The main emphasis of the plan is to look for small and inexpensive solutions , and it places the onus on governments in the East to take steps that make economic sense . |
| 7 | Woods has outlined some of the constraints that appear to induce survival-based patterns of teaching in the secondary school system — the raising of the school-leaving age ( to which we would now add growing youth unemployment ) , which encourages staying-on among those not otherwise especially enamoured of their school experience ; the persistence and extension of 16+ examinations against which teachers ' own success will be judged ( more of this later ) ; continuing high levels of class size and teacher-pupil ratios that make individualized treatment and small-group work difficult ; and declining levels of resources , which make experimentation and adjustment of learning tasks to individual needs problematic and leave teachers in the position of having to rely on their own personal resources for managing the class . |
| 8 | Money may be deposited on terms that make early withdrawal disadvantageous . |
| 9 | Lines of sight that make equal angles with the direction to the Centre intersect different volumes of the bar . |
| 10 | If you have a small bathroom , look for manufacturers that make fitted bathroom furniture , with the washbasin , toilet ( and sometimes bidet ) set into storage cupboards . |
| 11 | Prince Charles was also critical of northern nations for failing to address adequately issues such as global warming , ozone depletion and marine pollution , and to " remove the barriers in the world economic and trading system that make sustainable development in the third world more difficult " . |
| 12 | The innovative ideas that make Healthy Home Cooking so special … |
| 13 | It is offering rates on hire purchase deals for new cars that make independent finance houses wince — and grabbing greatly increased market share as a result . |
| 14 | The model is based on the philosophical position that language is constitutive of thought : it exposes the linguistic mechanisms that make abstract thought possible . |
| 15 | This raises issues about the direction of the National Health Service and the continued dominance of acute services in the face of the increasing needs of growing numbers of people with chronic and degenerative conditions , which an editorial in The Economist recently described as ‘ types of misery that make old age worse than it need be . ’ |
| 16 | At Sussex , we have analysed a variety of models for population genetic that make different assumptions about ( 1 ) the grouping patterns of prey , and their breeding systems , degree of conspicuousness and palatability , ( 2 ) the ability of predators to learn and remember , and ( 3 ) the population densities of predator and prey . |
| 17 | When we looked at group psychology and analysis of the ego , we saw that it was processes that occur in the ego , such as identification and projection , that make social groups possible , that bring about the social order of psychological groups . |
| 18 | You know , the sort that make thick calves look even thicker and are only worn by women with thick calves . |
| 19 | Stone farm buildings that make ideal nesting sites are becoming scarce . |
| 20 | We would also like to make contact with schools that make special efforts to interest students in science either within the class room or in extracurricular activities . |
| 21 | also like to make contact with schools that make special efforts to interest students in science either within the class room or in extracurricular activities . |
| 22 | Gandhi recognizes that in the ordinary circumstances of life we are confronted by situations that make clear-cut decisions or a choice between black and white sometimes impossible . |
| 23 | However , violent sports that make excessive demands on the body with little preparation , can do more harm than good . |
| 24 | With modern microelectronic devices , however , automation is no longer only to be seen in factories that make identical goods in continuous streams , but is spreading to batch production . |
| 25 | The effect of information technology goes far beyond those firms that make electronic products . |
| 26 | In contrast to the books written then , The Road to Jaramillo is full of insight into the interactions , communications , thoughts and impressions that make scientific problem solving enlightening . |
| 27 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 28 | On the same assumption , there is another overwhelming problem for the proposal : for it is not sentences but rather utterances-that make definite statements , and thus can sensibly be assigned truth conditions ( as philosophers have long noted ; see e.g. Strawson , 1950 ; Stalnaker , 1972 ) . |