Example sentences of "[that] makes [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What is it that makes them intelligible ? |
| 2 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that the outflowing rivers provide the sand that makes them good beaches . |
| 4 | There is also a danger that the engineered crops will transfer the gene that makes them resistant to wild plants via pollen , which would force farmers to use ever stronger herbicides , with serious implications for the environment . |
| 5 | Even if subjects are deliberately attempting to recall the risky situations it would still be interesting that they are able to do so in a way that makes them distinct from all the other situations encountered . |
| 6 | In this kind of house , in this kind of street , they soon collect a grey film that makes them all look much the same . |
| 7 | That is , their meanings are not ‘ given ’ by some set of facts , but rather by the way in which these facts are interpreted by observers in a form that makes them recognisable as crimes , mental illnesses or cases of child abuse . |
| 8 | Now it seems that makes them sympathetic to those who — quite literally — get away with murder . |
| 9 | From the rosebud doubles to the richly coloured , eyeless cowichans hybrids and dainty , dark-leaved ‘ Garryarde ’ , they all have something that makes them irresistible . |
| 10 | Anything that makes them different is likely to lead to teasing by other children . |
| 11 | Some computer programs are marketed in a form that makes them difficult to copy . |
| 12 | We should not be bothered by safeguarding entrenched institutions , nor about winners or losers , but by how better to persuade tourists to come to Scotland and how to help the industry that makes them welcome . |
| 13 | But modern children have a lot of facts and it 's the interpretation of facts and feelings that makes them civilised . ’ |
| 14 | It may not occur ; pupils may be resilient enough to deal with negative social encounters themselves , or may have the kind of personality that makes them unlikely to arise . |
| 15 | Most discordant twins had one or other antigen , Identical twins who are discordant for diabetes start out with the same susceptibility ; it is only the action of an environmental stimulus on one twin , and its absence on the other that makes them discordant . |
| 16 | It 's not something that makes me anxious at all . |
| 17 | It 's the only thing that makes me proud about that country . |
| 18 | ‘ She has been the target of such spite that it disgraces those who offer it , and she bears it with a dignity that makes me proud , ’ he said as Mrs Kinnock stood behind him , smiling but with tears in her eyes . |
| 19 | Well that makes me ill now . |
| 20 | To try and do what makes me happy , dress in a way that makes me happy . |
| 21 | It 's not the money that makes me happy . |
| 22 | The Tampax advert is n't the only one that makes me angry . |
| 23 | And that , tha , that 's the thing that makes me red , it 's not the cutting it 's when they just pull it apart and it like |
| 24 | ‘ And I am reliably informed that makes him dependable , trustworthy — and loyal unto death ! ’ |
| 25 | You wonder , is it something to do with cerebral palsy that makes him clever or is it just that his mother is musical anyway ? |
| 26 | Thus Akhsharumov directs the reader to something that makes him certain he holds a masterpiece in his hands before he has read half a dozen pages : a single pre-natal life , a foetal stirring and growth , no ordinary robust narrative sense of something afoot . |
| 27 | ‘ As a politician that makes him unusual , surely . ’ |
| 28 | It is an aspect of Karajan 's work and influence that makes him more the forebear of Simon Rattle than the successor of Arthur Nikisch . |
| 29 | It is the sense of striving that makes him interesting . |
| 30 | A mechanic when he hits on an idea that makes him some money in a suggestion scheme though the joy is of the same substance but he will not feel the same depth of emotion as Einstein or Dante did . |