Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kaye , Preston , Szabo , Druiff , and Mackintosh ( 1987 ) report an experiment which makes use of a contextual manipulation in an attempt to demonstrate that latent inhibition is not to be interpreted as a form of associative interference . |
| 2 | Soon after his arrival , Souness reversed the dominant trend of football transfers by bringing expensive English stars to play in Scotland and towards the end of 1988 , the club was the subject of an inspirational takeover bid which made Souness and his personal friend , the business man David Murray , the new owners of the club . |
| 3 | Each cell has its own developmental programme which makes use of a limited number of processes that have been used again and again , for hundreds of millions of years . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose Jefferson could be connected with a magic ritual which made use of Cathedral candles , ’ Ian said speculatively . |
| 5 | Some teachers and psychologists are against all study which makes language , in Cazden 's term , ‘ opaque ’ ( Cazden , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | Another aspect of the calm air hover is that the tail has to be ‘ flown ’ , or positioned , all the time , whereas a wind produces a ‘ weathercock ’ effect which makes things much easier . |
| 7 | It is this accepted common practice which makes communication possible , not the existence of mental items — ideas or thoughts — to be transported from one mind to another . |
| 8 | The practical task , then , for a water authority setting or modifying a consent based on criteria relating to the particular watercourse becomes one of persuading a discharger disadvantaged by some criterion which makes sense in utilitarian — but not moral — terms of the force of the agency 's position . |
| 9 | This is the kind of bustle and action which makes gravel pits and reservoirs such fine birdwatching locations on a bleak midwinter 's day . |
| 10 | It follows a decsion by the European Court confirming that the Shops Act , the statute which makes Sunday trading illegal , is valid . |
| 11 | If the bar conversation was anything to go by , the people of Oswaldston were going to react to their newly famous son by first denigrating him and then resenting any outsider who made claim to him . |
| 12 | Francis Magniac was a French Huguenot goldsmith who made clocks and watches for the Chinese market . |
| 13 | And erm er good place to make friends but at any college you make friends |
| 14 | Using sleeve fabric and velvet she made cuffs , which she stitched on and fastened with buttons . |
| 15 | So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch . |
| 16 | If we are conditioned by fear we make things worse . |
| 17 | During his years on the Continent he made friendships among many of the most eminent men of the day , including Edward Gibbon , Horatio Nelson ( Viscount Nelson ) , Sir William Hamilton and his wife , Richard Payne Knight [ qq.v . ] , |
| 18 | In practice it makes mistakes all the time but Horizon showed its English as flawless . |
| 19 | There are good satirical illustrations by the author , paralleled by a text which makes fun of American criticism , Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art . |
| 20 | Certainly he was determined to dissociate the United States from any settlement which made concessions to the communists . |
| 21 | Importantly they ignore one important principle of cricket : a game should be allowed to flow to a natural conclusion within a time framework which makes allowances for rain interruptions . |
| 22 | All the sales fall was in the technical products division which makes seat covers and other motor fittings . |
| 23 | They used the language of murder about the slave trade and Fox proclaimed himself an enthusiast for ‘ that zeal and warmth which arose from a sense of justice and was that kind which made men act with energy in a noble cause ’ . |
| 24 | There is a corresponding and no less seminal change in painting : the abandonment of the single ground line on which all figures rest ; a change which makes painting no longer simply the decoration of a flat surface but at the same time a feigned window on the three-dimensional world . |
| 25 | Among them was an Edwardian oak wind-out table which sold at £420 ; a mahogany bedroom suite which made £420 and a mahogany desk which realised £420 . |
| 26 | A better way would be to follow the WordPerfect route which makes room for the image and runs text around it automatically . |
| 27 | The woman inspired her with an admiration which made closeness difficult . |
| 28 | The walls were lime-washed to keep off insects , and the hams which hung from the blackened beams gave off a sweet crisp smell which made Cranston smack his lips . |
| 29 | It was a tribute to that engineering genius which made Britain the foremost industrial power in the world and which made engineers chiefs in the pantheon of heroes of the new industrial age , celebrated in works like Samuel Smiles 's Lives of the Engineers . |
| 30 | It was not only the top-class international field which made John Henry 's task a stiff one , for days of heavy rain — which persisted during the race — had made the going very soft , conditions which the gelding did not like . |