Example sentences of "thing [conj] makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If I can think of one thing that makes modern software easy to use leading up to Windows it is the split screen . |
2 | The one thing that makes decent family life possible in these unpromising environments is stark drudgery ; the role of the wife and mother involves an endless round of unremitting , indeed , heart-breaking , but thankless , labour . |
3 | The thing that makes British museums and galleries so exciting and unique is that , unlike American ones , they have a duty to collect not just the high spots of any period , but the average , sometimes even the bad , works of art which represent the context from which the great works of art arose . |
4 | The thing that makes this worse is that they really have meant well and were , I believe genuinely concerned . |
5 | With the building of this new road and planned ferry we are undoubtedly destroying the very thing that makes this area so special . |