Example sentences of "what makes a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then you evaluate it against your own particular conception of what makes a DTP package . |
| 2 | THE OBSESSION with winning and the determination to find what makes a man tick come under the spotlight , as Paul Newman 's boozy pool-shark Eddie Felson sets his sights on Jackie Gleason 's Minnesota Fat 's crown . |
| 3 | I wonder what makes a man so unforgiving and hard ? ’ |
| 4 | What makes a performer a ‘ worker ’ or a ‘ professional ’ is his relationship to the market' ( p.17 ) . |
| 5 | This series will , hopefully , tell you all you need to know about what makes a PC tick , what the various bits of one are , and how the various types of PC differ for one another . |
| 6 | WHAT MAKES A SKI WORK IN POWDER ? |
| 7 | I love him to bits but I 'm long past the stage of believing marriage is what makes a relationship real and holds it together . |
| 8 | Here then , cutting through all the waffle , is a concise run-down of what makes a board work . |
| 9 | So tell us , Sandra , what makes a bimbo a bimbo ? |
| 10 | What makes a European ? |
| 11 | What makes a mistake |
| 12 | 1 What makes a trust an overseas trust ? |
| 13 | Thus we are told that it is a ‘ good film ’ , is ‘ riveting viewing ’ and has ‘ excellent acting ’ but are never told what makes a film ‘ good ’ , why certain images are ‘ riveting ’ or what is ‘ excellent acting ’ . |
| 14 | There is only the odd passing comment on what makes a film or TV programme politically effective , how form and content might combine to produce the politically challenging and provocative programmes that the left would presumably like to see . |
| 15 | The underlying puzzle is what makes a male 's sperm susceptible to environmental damage — even more susceptible , in the opinion of some scientists , than a female 's eggs , whether fertilised or not . |
| 16 | The existence of other gods who turn out to be mere ‘ pretenders ’ to divinity raises the question of what makes a god a God . |
| 17 | What makes a child a cause for concern is the severity and persistence of the . |
| 18 | Secondly , he suggests , an a priori argument may also be advanced : ‘ What makes a society of any sort is a community of ideas , not only political ideas , but ideas about the way its members should behave and govern their lives ; these latter ideas are its morals . ’ |
| 19 | It appears that , despite the way he first introduces the topic of personal identity , his detailed interest is not so much in what makes a person the same over time , but in the sense one has of oneself , one 's past deeds and actions , and the relation of this to questions of moral praise and blame . |
| 20 | The extent to which this is an objection to Locke 's actual views will depend , as in the case of the brave officer , on whether they concern what makes a person at one time the same as he is at another , or concern moral matters of praise and blame . |
| 21 | I mean , you know what makes a person up , you know , heads |
| 22 | Even in a school one has to think of a very large number of different pupils with their own different characteristics and strengths and weaknesses , and one has to operate in a classroom and to a timetable and with given resources , and so on and so forth , and the combination of all these pressures and the ways that one has got used to handling them , on the whole , is what makes a person teach the way they do . |
| 23 | If the information content , represented by the magnetic configuration of the disc coating , is what makes a set of discs Windows , then does ‘ Windows 1.0 , condition poor ’ mean anything ? |
| 24 | No woman wants to live without love and romance — that 's what makes a woman feel transformed … excited … attractive … alive . |
| 25 | AM : So what makes a world champion ? |
| 26 | What makes a syllable prominent ? |
| 27 | WHAT MAKES A PRIEST ? |
| 28 | Bring them in , show that you 've actually thought more generally and you can see how you can bring different parts of the syllabus in because that 's the novelty , that 's what makes a piece of work stand out . |
| 29 | ‘ And you understand what makes a son rebel against a father , ’ Crowninshield went on . |
| 30 | need a new kitchen , du n no about need a new back door , our kitchen looks totally different to them , oh I know what it is , they 've got their door to the living room in the kitchen , that 's what makes a lot of difference do n't it ? but it could be designed better than that |