Example sentences of "that make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scenes of triumph in the papacy 's long struggle for political and spiritual dominion were presented in pictures that made contemporary and future generations aware of past landmarks in its eventful history . |
| 2 | One that made perfect sense to Ron and made perfect sense to me . |
| 3 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 4 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 5 | This perception of Reagan as an ideologue had its beneficial side for ‘ the strong beliefs that made many voters fearful of Reagan also attracted voters to him , since they suggested leadership and decis-iveness — qualities widely felt to be lacking in the Carter presidency ’ . |
| 6 | It was , as they saw it , Mrs Thatcher 's abuse of the loosely defined conventions that made such politically conscious people demand constitutional reform , one cardinal feature of which should be a properly articulated status of citizenship . |
| 7 | Under the more favourable conditions of their past , they had developed into the remarkably beautiful and striking breeds that made such an impact on the visitors to the early cat shows . |
| 8 | It was his development of special thermometer glass with glass capillaries containing liquid that made such accurate measurement feasible . |
| 9 | Miss Philimore had behaved pleasantly enough , but there had been a calculating set to her narrow mouth that made such a gesture seem unlikely in the extreme . |
| 10 | It was the notion of literariness that made Russian Formalism scientific and systematic , and more than an eclectic set of insights into the workings of literature . |
| 11 | She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all . |
| 12 | One of Dana 's reactions was very characteristic : he bent double with laughter at something he had said that made all the others laugh , too . |
| 13 | He was a Swaledale man who arrived in 1910 and that made all the difference . |
| 14 | The salaries of staff , the replacement of vital instruments and many large items had to be funded from the National Health Service funds , so that there was never enough left to buy the extra comforts that made all the difference to the welfare of the patients . |
| 15 | He spoke in a penetrating voice that made all the other customers look on with interest . |
| 16 | She reached to the gap between back and seat where years ago she had stuffed a cushion that made all the difference to that small problem with her spine . |
| 17 | the one , the one that made all those erm |
| 18 | And that made all the difference for them . |
| 19 | Butler had an easy manner but his searching cross-questioning gave him a reputation as a somewhat intimidating examiner or assessor for appointments , duties that made frequent calls on his time . |
| 20 | Pine resin , collected by tapping , dried to lumps that made brilliant firelighters . |
| 21 | Two Swedes came to a town near here with a grant , and started a factory that made micro-electric parts or something — anyway , it would supposedly employ hundreds of local people . |
| 22 | Strategically that made little sense , for the Wilds were almost empty , yet it was as if the City 's architect had known that this vast , jagged hole — this primitive wilderness at the heart of its hive-like orderliness — would one day prove its weakest point . |
| 23 | As a consequence , the question of where to eat was one that made little impression on her . |
| 24 | However , the surest way of never having to experience the misery — the most frequently occurring word associated with debt — the misery of debtors down the ages in Britain from Tom Verney to Sue and Tony , was to follow the time-honoured , still practical advice of Lord Chesterfield , Samuel Smiles et al that made boring but good sense in any age . |
| 25 | Well got a contract that made redundant |
| 26 | The third element that made Easy Rider the runaway , roaraway success that it became in the counter-culture movement was Jack Nicholson , angry and surely envious — though he denied it — at seeing some of his flash contemporaries and some younger actors making it very big indeed in the legitimacy of more sumptuous surroundings of Warners , Paramount , MGM and the rest . |
| 27 | With Ernest Morgan that made five and we were fortunate to be able to persuade a young Japanese student , on holiday from U.B.C. , to join our party as cook and housekeeper . |
| 28 | Something that made small noises , but even in the pitch blackness gave the impression of hugeness . |
| 29 | He had n't sounded very pleased about something — that made two of them . |
| 30 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |