Example sentences of "which makes [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're becoming even easier to pick up once delicensed nowadays , thanks to the invasion of the upstart Metrocabs , which drive like a Panzer , look like an undertaker 's second-best hearse and give the punters a ride which makes them think they 're in a telephone-box on castors . |
| 2 | Children of this age want to do so much , but do n't yet have the ability to tackle many things — which makes them feel frustrated . |
| 3 | The words are italicised instead , which makes them stand out , as if starred by the new typeface . |
| 4 | It is the attention to that detail which makes them stand out . |
| 5 | Their movements are graceful and controlled , their minds are quick and clever with an intensity and depth of insight which makes them seem fey and strange to other races . |
| 6 | Sensitive leniency is not the only principle operating , however , for constables also need to avoid being ‘ taken for a ride ’ by an unrealistic excuse which makes them look foolish . |
| 7 | Men offered a diplomatic post could not be blamed , as one writer put it , for " choosing rather to fix themselves near to the person of the Prince ; because the recompences for that service are much greater , and much more frequent , and because those that are absent are commonly forgotten , which makes them look upon an embassy as a sort of an honourable exile " . |
| 8 | It emphasises the huge element of mystery and uncertainty in voters ' behaviour , which makes them spurn the most fluent campaigns and ignore the gaffes and trifles which dominate television news bulletins and front pages . |
| 9 | It is the life force within us that is the cause of that denial , which makes it impossible for the healthy to imagine a time when it will have faded , which makes them tremble at the thought that , were voluntary euthanasia ever legalized , abuse would inevitably follow , and when they became old and ill , they would be at risk of being put away . |
| 10 | Emerging technologies such as document image processing ( DIP ) are surrounded by a mystique which makes them sound attractive to potential customers , who are nevertheless unsure about how they will actually help their business . |
| 11 | Certainly simulation by shifting to other viewpoints is a kind of analogizing the active kind which makes myself like instead of recognizing as alike . |
| 12 | we have a nice bath in this flat which makes one feel glad . |
| 13 | An operator is a process or action which makes one step . |
| 14 | They declared almost unanimously that it would not change their way of life , which makes one wonder what was so attractive about that way of life ( in fact , nearly all pools winners were forced to move , through the envy of neighbours ) . |
| 15 | There is a vagueness in John 's later account of his feelings which makes one wonder how far he was reinterpreting events and attitudes with hindsight . |
| 16 | The notion of ‘ topic ’ is clearly an intuitively satisfactory way of describing the unifying principle which makes one stretch of discourse ‘ about ’ something and the next stretch ‘ about ’ something else , for it is appealed to very frequently in the discourse analysis literature . |
| 17 | There is , too , a constantly intelligent conversational quality about the writing which makes one see how very good his talk must have been . |
| 18 | This is a contextual argument , which makes one understand the way in which the Government are prepared to make appointments for political reasons . |
| 19 | her thighs are far heavier than usual which makes her look solid and strong . |
| 20 | His knees frequently dislocate and he has a painful hiatus hernia which makes him scream . |
| 21 | But it 's exactly that completeness which makes him suffer so . |
| 22 | It 's a question which makes him laugh . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's the weight of office which makes him drink . ’ |
| 24 | Instead we have the politics of statistics , and unless a citizen has a pocket calculator at hand with which to check the figures being bandied about , he is virtually disenfranchised — until , that is , something is said which makes him sit up and take indignant or enthusiastic notice . |
| 25 | Pupils can sometimes be diffident in expressing their anxieties about their visual condition and may be greatly helped if they can talk to someone knowledgeable and experienced in such matters who is unlikely to be surprised by incidents which can be a worry to some youngsters , such as , for instance , a glass eye lost in the swimming pool or the effect of strong light on a photophobic ( averse to glare ) pupil which makes him sit with closed eyes . |
| 26 | Somebody will then decide to give an impromptu reply if the best man does n't , which makes him feel he should have spoken . |
| 27 | Here Faldo 's latest swing — which makes him stand taller — made his short game easy . |
| 28 | He is able and energetic , which makes him stand out among the Khedive 's progeny . |
| 29 | More recently his attempt to damp down the fires of the Rushdie controversy , A Satanic Affair : Salman Rushdie and The Rage of Islam , infuriated both Muslim militants and some of Rushdie 's friends , which makes him think he got the balance about right . |
| 30 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |