Example sentences of "which makes the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that Letterman would like to have some of Polanski 's assurance with young women , a knowingness which makes the Californian mania for self-presentation look quaint . |
| 2 | The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile . |
| 3 | It is a curious method of story-telling which makes the five characters seem remote and alone , their lives never quite real . |
| 4 | In January 1852 he writes to Louise and explains , yet again , his incorrigibility : he is as he is , he can not change , he does not have a say in the matter , he is subject to the gravity of things , that gravity ‘ which makes the polar bear inhabit the icy regions and the camel walk upon the sand ’ . |
| 5 | Its price is expected to be about £12,000 — which makes the Reliant a better bargain that even Del Boy could afford . |
| 6 | But the economy is still more important than psychology : in Russia , we already have a capitalist economy , which makes the Russian language essential . |
| 7 | The technique explained in this chapter , resistant line fitting , produces a line which makes the absolute value of the deviations in the Y direction as small as possible ( rule 3 ) . |
| 8 | The feature of most interest is sentence length , because when we estimate the contribution made by each feature to the total amount of time spent reading , it is the number of words in a sentence which makes the largest difference between the two groups . |
| 9 | In addition , as we saw in Chapter III , it concerns the kind of factor which makes the relevant counterfactual claims true . |
| 10 | By harnessing similar reactions to those which make glow-worms glow and fireflies flash , the scientists have produced a technique for examining patients ' blood samples which makes the early detection of diseases quicker , safer and cheaper . |
| 11 | Could they liaise more with external agencies to develop a co-ordinated programme which makes the best use of their respective strengths ? |
| 12 | WWF 's new projects in the Korup rainforest in the Cameroons and on rural range-land management in Zimbabwe are based on the thesis of developing a land use policy specific to a particular area , which makes the best possible use of all the resources available . |
| 13 | Only one form of training in managing this double act is likely to succeed : staff and governors need to be encouraged to support every movement which makes the best of their own school . |
| 14 | But the early morning milkround means he can cover over a hundred miles a week in training … which makes the actual competition more bearable . |
| 15 | Corporate Jets , the former British Aerospace subsidiary which makes the best-selling 125 business jet , has been sold to American company Raytheon for £250m . |
| 16 | Corporate Jets , the British Aerospace subsidiary which makes the best-selling 125 business jet , recently was sold to the US company Raytheon for £250m . |
| 17 | It is the poverty of their own life which makes the poor content to inhabit ‘ unthinkable ’ houses … which makes so many careless of cleanliness , listless about the unhealthy condition of their workshops , and heedless of anything beyond the enjoyment of a moment 's excitement … |
| 18 | There is a kind of innocence about this which makes the modern reader , coming upon it all sixty years after the event , squirm with embarrassment . |
| 19 | At first the family gather round it and at the end as the actors steal away into the darkness it is the piano which makes the final sounds . |
| 20 | At first the family gathers round it and at the end , as the actors steal away into the darkness , it is the piano which makes the final sounds . |
| 21 | Which makes the 60,000 Stockport County paid Derby County for Kevin Francis look a snip . |
| 22 | It is not the KGB , ‘ indomitable ’ as it is , which makes the Soviet Union a totalitarian society , nor even the CPSU 's monopoly of political power , but the fusion of political and economic power . |
| 23 | Two alternative explanations can be proposed : 1 ) the C-terminal part of α-subunit makes contacts with the upstream region of the promoter ; 2 ) the C-terminal deletion of α induces a conformational change in RNA polymerase which makes the truncated holoenzyme unable to bind to the upstream part of the promoter . |
| 24 | REGINA , the royal jelly company which makes the magic queen bee elixir taken by stars like Cliff Richard and Maureen Lipman , stung the City yesterday with massive losses . |
| 25 | Central to this ‘ new consensus , was a concern with the complex and multi-layered nature of organizations which makes the very possibility of rational decision-making problematic . |
| 26 | The existence of clause 28 , which makes the so-called ‘ promoting ’ of homosexuality illegal , can make workers fearful about how their relationship with a young person will be perceived . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , in modern society , our ‘ own ’ are rarely living in the same town or even in the same county as us , which makes the ideal situation very difficult to achieve . |
| 28 | It is this fact , above all , which makes the patronal definition of any public body , deriving its authority and resources from the supposed general will of the society , at best controversial , at worst quite inapplicable . |
| 29 | This does not mean that all formal principles have been abandoned — the form may be based on very logical mathematical principles , or on structures which are retrogrades or inversions of what has gone before ( which makes the musical ideas themselves somewhat elusive ) — but if there is no repetition of well-sculptured subject matter , the music is almost certain to escape the memory , even after several hearings . |
| 30 | Topic sentence ( which makes the main claim of the paragraph ) : ( 1 ) In Chapter 2 Fitzgerald introduces one of the most important patterns of the novel : the " waste land motif " . |