Example sentences of "what makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What is risk ? — what makes young people ‘ at risk ’ |
| 2 | What makes young people more or less at risk ? |
| 3 | Viewers will see what makes nasty Norma , the receptionist so nasty . |
| 4 | GRAVITY : This is not properly understood , but it is what makes small things , like nomes , stick to big things , like planets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What makes sexist language problematic ? |
| 8 | What makes ordinary women homeless ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Is this flying in the face of what makes good cinema ? ’ |
| 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 | What makes Cerebral Fix — ex-Sounds EP stars — stand out is the way they 're busy twisting things around in the Death/Doom category . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This diversity is what makes arid lovers such and interesting and worthwhile range of plants to grow . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | This is what makes ductile metals so safe and tough and so popular . |
| 18 | People — usually women journalists — are curious to know what makes British men tick , and how they differ from other men . |
| 19 | But what makes sexual athlete ? |
| 20 | What makes fly fishing different from coarse and sea fishing is the way you cast . |
| 21 | And that in general is what makes direct observations good . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | The random part is what makes genetic algorithms slow . |
| 24 | 1.3 What makes public companies vulnerable to takeovers ? |