Example sentences of "[be] what makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
2 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
3 | I suspect that [ the ] very absence of quality is what makes such stuff attractive to children , not just because it is easy to read , undemanding , untaxing , but because the simplistic plots and characters leave children free to embroider and enrich the stories in their own way as they read . |
4 | GRAVITY : This is not properly understood , but it is what makes small things , like nomes , stick to big things , like planets . |
5 | This diversity is what makes arid lovers such and interesting and worthwhile range of plants to grow . |
6 | Restricted choice is what makes most diets boring — so any new range that increases choice is always welcome . |
7 | The impotence of the two parties to the wage bargain to bring about a reduction in the real wage rate is what makes Keynesian unemployment involuntary . |
8 | But obviously the past is what makes any person . |
9 | The random part is what makes genetic algorithms slow . |
10 | And that in general is what makes direct observations good . |
11 | This is what makes ductile metals so safe and tough and so popular . |
12 | This is what makes this type of exercise ( like jogging and cycling ) aerobic . |