Example sentences of "[that] [vb base] them [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society . |
2 | Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ . |
3 | Owls ' eyesight is good in dim light but not so good in total darkness ; it is their acute hearing and the accuracy with which they can pinpoint sounds that make them such successful hunters . |
4 | Bantamweight Karen Briggs , featherweight Sharon Rendle and light-middleweight Diane Bell all won on Saturday with performances that make them odds-on favourites for medals in Barcelona . |
5 | Vadinamia has spent lavishly on all kinds of state-of-the-art technology There are no longer any bribable Vadinamian in direct contact with the stored valuables — just servo-mechanisms , including mandroid guards and Intelloid overseers with multiphase fail-safe level of programme reinforcement that make them incorruptible . |
6 | Chronically dry soils lack organic buffers and are often strongly sodic , saline , acid or alkaline , with free soluble salts that make them unattractive for plant colonization . |
7 | For example , in some multilingual classrooms pupils carry out activities that make them aware of some of the similarities and differences among their languages ; in other classrooms pupils write play-scripts in regional dialect or study the language of Chaucer . |
8 | Women seek to prove that they can perform equally with men , without , however , any allowances for those things that make them different , both physiologically and socially . |
9 | In urban areas this means protecting the elements that make them attractive , whilst seeking to improve those areas that would benefit from regeneration . |
10 | With the proceeds of the gold they buy provisions , heading toward numerous pharmacies for drugs to combat diseases , notably malaria , that afflict them all . |
11 | that hold them Maggi , that . |
12 | If kids do things with their body that give them physical pleasure , that 's more sensuality rather than sexuality . |
13 | Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are almost as funny as they are in The Mary Whitehouse Experience , the show that earnt them this sitcom . |
14 | For this reason it would appear likely that bones modified as greatly as these would be uncommon in the fossil record , and the predators that produce them unlikely to be important contributors to fossil bone assemblages . |
15 | Does education prepare people to be objects of learning and to accept their place within the status quo , or does it encourage people to question the critical issues of the day and challenge forces that keep them passive ? |
16 | They read publications that keep them abreast of market trends , personalities , lawsuits and prices — rather than delving into art history as do their counterparts in Europe . |
17 | And the worst of it is that , unlike the small child , they have learnt so many of the tricks of the adult world : How to play on parental guilt , how to manipulate , how to hide their real feelings and how to convince those that love them most that they are ‘ OK , honestly , mum ’ when actually they are consumed with anxiety and doubt . |
18 | So , it is not the country of domicile of economic institutions or the classes that dominate them that is the primary consideration in explaining how the global system works , but rather the structural locations of institutions and classes in the global capitalist system . |
19 | What lends the work a more than merely programmatic cohesion is , I think , the extreme sensitivity of Mason 's ear for harmony : the strangest agglomerations of texture have a vertical consistency in terms of pitch that identify them all as integral parts of the same piece . |