Example sentences of "what makes [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What makes one organisation more successful than another ? |
| 2 | Before explaining how to tackle a course race it is worth looking at what makes one sailor go faster than another . |
| 3 | What makes Front Line Africa controversial is also what makes it particularly useful — that a third of it is entirely devoted to the political and economic steps the rich world can and should take to hasten the end of apartheid . |
| 4 | When we consider the dominance of collectivism as an explanation of what makes Japanese experience unique , we do need to emphasize that this is not simply a characteristic of Western or American writing , but many Japanese social scientists have echoed this explanation in their attempts to identify the sources of consensus in Japanese society . |
| 5 | What makes sexist language problematic ? |
| 6 | I suspect that [ the ] very absence of quality is what makes such stuff attractive to children , not just because it is easy to read , undemanding , untaxing , but because the simplistic plots and characters leave children free to embroider and enrich the stories in their own way as they read . |
| 7 | What makes T-G grammar different from other systems of grammatical analysis is that it is explicitly generative and its rules are ordered in a definite sequence . |
| 8 | But it 's not only Trodd and other producers who believe that what makes good work in a collaborative art is the challenge of having to justify decisions to your colleagues , and having colleagues who are not afraid to make those challenges . |
| 9 | Is this flying in the face of what makes good cinema ? ’ |
| 10 | What makes First Fidelity look even cheaper is the weakness of America 's dollar . |
| 11 | What makes Cerebral Fix — ex-Sounds EP stars — stand out is the way they 're busy twisting things around in the Death/Doom category . |
| 12 | What makes Cerebral Fix — ex-Sounds EP stars — stand out is the way they 're busy twisting things around in the Death/Doom category . |
| 13 | The impotence of the two parties to the wage bargain to bring about a reduction in the real wage rate is what makes Keynesian unemployment involuntary . |
| 14 | Having argued that sociology is rather closer to journalism and the literary arts than some might imagine , I now turn to consider those differences that do , after all , divide them : in particular what makes social science scientific ? |
| 15 | What makes this year so outstanding is that your ruling planet , Pluto , makes a 90-degree angle to Saturn — something that has n't happened for 20 years . |
| 16 | What makes this campaign unusual is that it 's backed by a major brewery , Courage . |
| 17 | ‘ He knows what makes this music tick and is passionate about it . |
| 18 | What makes this behaviour more worrying is the fact that the industry is now dominated by recently-assembled global media conglomerates or big electronics firms who can ill afford it . |
| 19 | Yet what makes this intelligibility possible ? |
| 20 | Primarily what makes this type of work unpopular is the ever-present danger that work of this sort will break the veneer of coldness , exposing them as emotionally involved , which is something they dislike because it is considered unprofessional . |
| 21 | This is what makes this type of exercise ( like jogging and cycling ) aerobic . |
| 22 | What makes this system unique , is a batch of computers which control the ovens and ensure the food is cooked for the correct length of time and in the most ideal conditions . |
| 23 | 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 , |
| 24 | 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 , |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | But what makes this machine really special is that it offers you the chance to create an unlimited range of embroidery designs . |
| 27 | What makes this assumption intelligible ? |
| 28 | So the assumption of an objective order remains crucial to any " pluralist " argument ; but the question is , what makes this assumption intelligible ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |