Example sentences of "what makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 32 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 33 | Even more importantly , there is every reason to believe , with Mary Midgley , that the basic assumption behind cultural relativism/behaviourism that human beings are totally plastic and devoid of innate structuration is false : ‘ Sensible psychologists have tended more and more to admit that people do have some genetically fixed tendencies ’ and she continues that ‘ What makes this admission hard , is the very strong impression still prevalent that we have to choose between considering these tendencies and considering outside conditions ’ ( 1979 : 20 ) . |
| 34 | But what makes this machine really special is that it offers you the chance to create an unlimited range of embroidery designs . |
| 35 | What makes this assumption intelligible ? |
| 36 | So the assumption of an objective order remains crucial to any " pluralist " argument ; but the question is , what makes this assumption intelligible ? |
| 37 | What makes this album such a monstrous listen , though , is the way disgusting guitar noises of all descriptions are packed into jabs , upper-cuts , sucker punches and knock-out blows to batter you dizzily around the room . |
| 38 | What makes this pattern of dots different to those that can be produced by a scanner and page printer is that they vary in size . |
| 39 | What makes this disc worth having is the setting for chorus and orchestra of Schiller 's Nanie , composed in memory of a friend . |
| 40 | What makes this practice abhorrent is the fact that recovery from surgery , as we all know , involves shock , pain , distress , and suffering . |
| 41 | ( I have often tried to analyse what makes this statement so amusing , and I have come to the conclusion that it is due to the words ‘ all ’ and ‘ large ’ , so that the idea becomes a preposterous one . ) |
| 42 | But leaving days full of activity and sunshine aside for the moment , what makes this hamlet one of our favourites is the atmosphere . |
| 43 | What makes this gem fascinating is that S 3 molecules are normally highly reactive , surviving only a fraction of a second in solution . |
| 44 | What makes this understanding , this adjustment even more difficult are the immense problems of everyday life in Britain — how to get to work , how to sign your name and so on . |
| 45 | What makes this team different is the type of aircraft they will fly , for they are six Czechoslovakian-built Aero L39C Albatros trainers , the first of which , at the time of writing , was about to embark on its flight test schedule . |
| 46 | Q : What makes this offer so special ? |
| 47 | What makes this book even more readable though are the superb colour photographs and three-dimensional drawings . |
| 48 | But what makes this book really good , is the style . |
| 49 | What makes some people happy for example , is that they are committed to a cause or to a person ; their happiness derives from something other than the pursuit of happiness . |
| 50 | What makes some people ‘ better ’ on the telephone than others ' ? |
| 51 | This is what makes ductile metals so safe and tough and so popular . |
| 52 | People — usually women journalists — are curious to know what makes British men tick , and how they differ from other men . |
| 53 | But what makes sexual athlete ? |
| 54 | What makes fly fishing different from coarse and sea fishing is the way you cast . |
| 55 | And that in general is what makes direct observations good . |
| 56 | Pardon , what makes those Dave ? |
| 57 | ‘ Oh well , ’ said Marcus , capturing his left hand again , ‘ I suppose it 's about what makes human consciousness possible , or rather it 's about what human consciousness is , which is to say what , and how , the world is , how anything is . |
| 58 | So what makes more sense — buying two at £15 each and losing one , or buying one at £30 and seeing it thrive ? |
| 59 | What makes these system knowledge-based is not that it somehow takes knowledge to write them , nor that they behave as if they had knowledge , but rather that their architectures include explicit knowledge bases . |
| 60 | What makes these yachts special is the material used , the quality of build and the spartan but seamanlike accommodation . |