Example sentences of "[pron] makes the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that Letterman would like to have some of Polanski 's assurance with young women , a knowingness which makes the Californian mania for self-presentation look quaint . |
| 2 | The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile . |
| 3 | It is a curious method of story-telling which makes the five characters seem remote and alone , their lives never quite real . |
| 4 | In January 1852 he writes to Louise and explains , yet again , his incorrigibility : he is as he is , he can not change , he does not have a say in the matter , he is subject to the gravity of things , that gravity ‘ which makes the polar bear inhabit the icy regions and the camel walk upon the sand ’ . |
| 5 | But the economy is still more important than psychology : in Russia , we already have a capitalist economy , which makes the Russian language essential . |
| 6 | The technique explained in this chapter , resistant line fitting , produces a line which makes the absolute value of the deviations in the Y direction as small as possible ( rule 3 ) . |
| 7 | The feature of most interest is sentence length , because when we estimate the contribution made by each feature to the total amount of time spent reading , it is the number of words in a sentence which makes the largest difference between the two groups . |
| 8 | By harnessing similar reactions to those which make glow-worms glow and fireflies flash , the scientists have produced a technique for examining patients ' blood samples which makes the early detection of diseases quicker , safer and cheaper . |
| 9 | Could they liaise more with external agencies to develop a co-ordinated programme which makes the best use of their respective strengths ? |
| 10 | But the early morning milkround means he can cover over a hundred miles a week in training … which makes the actual competition more bearable . |
| 11 | There is a kind of innocence about this which makes the modern reader , coming upon it all sixty years after the event , squirm with embarrassment . |
| 12 | At first the family gather round it and at the end as the actors steal away into the darkness it is the piano which makes the final sounds . |
| 13 | At first the family gathers round it and at the end , as the actors steal away into the darkness , it is the piano which makes the final sounds . |
| 14 | Which makes the 60,000 Stockport County paid Derby County for Kevin Francis look a snip . |
| 15 | It is not the KGB , ‘ indomitable ’ as it is , which makes the Soviet Union a totalitarian society , nor even the CPSU 's monopoly of political power , but the fusion of political and economic power . |
| 16 | Two alternative explanations can be proposed : 1 ) the C-terminal part of α-subunit makes contacts with the upstream region of the promoter ; 2 ) the C-terminal deletion of α induces a conformational change in RNA polymerase which makes the truncated holoenzyme unable to bind to the upstream part of the promoter . |
| 17 | REGINA , the royal jelly company which makes the magic queen bee elixir taken by stars like Cliff Richard and Maureen Lipman , stung the City yesterday with massive losses . |
| 18 | Central to this ‘ new consensus , was a concern with the complex and multi-layered nature of organizations which makes the very possibility of rational decision-making problematic . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , in modern society , our ‘ own ’ are rarely living in the same town or even in the same county as us , which makes the ideal situation very difficult to achieve . |
| 20 | It is this fact , above all , which makes the patronal definition of any public body , deriving its authority and resources from the supposed general will of the society , at best controversial , at worst quite inapplicable . |
| 21 | This does not mean that all formal principles have been abandoned — the form may be based on very logical mathematical principles , or on structures which are retrogrades or inversions of what has gone before ( which makes the musical ideas themselves somewhat elusive ) — but if there is no repetition of well-sculptured subject matter , the music is almost certain to escape the memory , even after several hearings . |
| 22 | Topic sentence ( which makes the main claim of the paragraph ) : ( 1 ) In Chapter 2 Fitzgerald introduces one of the most important patterns of the novel : the " waste land motif " . |
| 23 | Any vibration which makes the surrounding molecules of air vibrate can cause sound . |
| 24 | Reduced to its minimum , the Latin American idea of a ‘ party ’ comes down to a group of friends , which makes the Leninist concept of a totally committed , exclusive vanguard very difficult to accept or implement . |
| 25 | But the ‘ guessed ’ dose had been well chosen , and the bone marrow , which makes the white cells , recovered . |
| 26 | This will produce the same triumphant progress only if ‘ the intellectual and moral faculties of man ’ are not of a deeply peculiar sort which makes the social world radically unlike the natural . |
| 27 | The illustrations are ‘ stripped in ’ as separate films , and the whole film goes to a process camera which makes the lithographic printing plate . |
| 28 | The bright gold and green foliage which makes the crowning glory of the winter border has to become a backdrop for the summer garden . |
| 29 | That said , there is a playful yet authoritative personality here , which makes the quasi-erotic experience of pressing down the plunger ( an action that the semiotician of coffee Pierre Beaudidlez has described as having an ‘ ecstatic rightness ’ ) especially piquant . |
| 30 | It is this which makes the next section of Simmel 's work so difficult to accept , in that it appears to work so deeply against the grain of modern consciousness . |