Example sentences of "[Wh det] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once started , she was difficult to stop : she had the trick of pausing in the middle of sentences rather than at their end , which made polite interruptions next to impossible . |
| 2 | Three wells were drilled in the area in the 1980's — all of which made small gas discoveries — although two are excluded from this award . |
| 3 | Most items produced in Europe paid practically no English duty if they were to be re-exported to the colonies , but a few , including iron and steel , were taxed at a rate which made continental products very expensive and thus gave English manufacturers a clear field in the colonial market . |
| 4 | All the pitches were lined with trees under which spectators could sit and which made splendid spots for picnics when no game was going on . |
| 5 | He could hear breathing , slow and heavy , the sweet breath of God , which made all things come alive . |
| 6 | But it would seem to be impossible for us to return to patristic sensibilities , for the framework of thought which made that Christology possible is no longer with us . |
| 7 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 8 | For much of Charles ' reign Constantinople was under the control of relatively ineffectual rulers , and had many internal disputes and factions which made imperial interest in Italy difficult to enforce . |
| 9 | The Australian-owned bank ANZ Grindlays , which made similar admissions , was reported on Oct. 30 to have maintained that it had acted in keeping with " normal market practice " . |
| 10 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 11 | But towards the end of the eighteenth century the courts developed what Jay Cohen calls ‘ a more expansive definition ’ of the term , which made many non-traders eligible for discharge in bankruptcy . |
| 12 | In the non-European world it was the requirement to provide separate facilities for a complex hierarchy of class and race which made many railway stations larger affairs than they need otherwise have been . |
| 13 | Sixth , the leadership demonstrated abysmal judgment , evinced by the distasteful triumphalism in Sheffield , which made many supporters cringe , and waverers recoil . |
| 14 | The most significant developments occurred in Scandinavia where there was a long tradition of limited cooperation , or at least of a belief in a common cultural area which made such cooperation valuable , if not almost inevitable . |
| 15 | MGM , which made such classics as Gone With the Wind and The Wizard Of Oz , has been in turmoil ever since being bought by controversial Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti last year . |
| 16 | The bigger premises increased Lotus ' overheads , which made low volume production cars unprofitable to manufacture . |
| 17 | After the Reformation these traditions were regularized in a unique Poor Law which made each parish responsible for its own poor , and obliged it to finance its aid by levying a poor rate on its inhabitants . |
| 18 | Until the 1983–84 submission to the CNAA ( discussed below ) , for example , several new areas felt constrained and unconvinced by aspects of the operation ( especially timetabling ) which made perfect sense for a full-time course in science but considerably less for other kinds of demands . |
| 19 | According to the joint receiver , Ian Murdoch , of KPMG Peat Marwick , Levack , which made pre-tax profits of £240,000 on turnover of £22 million in 1991 , appears to have been undercapitalised . |
| 20 | But in 1990 Toyota 's financial profit lengthened its lead over Honda and Nissan , both of which made financial losses . |
| 21 | Later she incorporated cans of spray paint which made extraordinary effects when shot . |
| 22 | But that should be offset by recovery from the bathroom and heating companies which made little-changed profits of £42.6m last year . |
| 23 | Airbus , which made 71 aircraft last year , aims to make 162 in 1993 . |
| 24 | Hellen and I attended several of the society 's Sunday afternoon showings of ‘ classics ’ of foreign films , two of which made lasting impressions : one was the famous Italian masterpiece ‘ The Cabinet of Dr Caligari ’ and the other was that delightful French film entitled ‘ Generals Sans Boutons ’ . |
| 25 | Prior to the passage of the Theft Act 1968 , which made radical changes in and greatly simplified the law relating to theft and some other offences , it was necessary to prove that the property alleged to have been stolen was taken ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ ( Larceny Act 1916 , section 1(1) ) . |
| 26 | Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense . |
| 27 | The burning question for the poverty lobby is from where and how , particularly given the Fowler reviews in 1986 which made wide-ranging cuts and changes to the social security system . |
| 28 | Binks Bullows made its first sale to a company in north-east England called Moorlight , which made fluorescent lamp fittings . |
| 29 | He had real charm , which made canny figures such as Tolkien distrust him . |
| 30 | The Muslim community in Bradford , where Yasmin comes from , is very strong , and there had recently been a case which made national news of two Muslim sisters fighting for their right to wear their headscarves to school . |