Example sentences of "[noun] that make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The personal , ‘ background ’ characteristics that make one person 's voice recognisably different from another . |
| 2 | If you have a small bathroom , look for manufacturers that make fitted bathroom furniture , with the washbasin , toilet ( and sometimes bidet ) set into storage cupboards . |
| 3 | So we 've combined them in a shampoo that makes dry hair lustrous and more manageable . |
| 4 | It is offering rates on hire purchase deals for new cars that make independent finance houses wince — and grabbing greatly increased market share as a result . |
| 5 | Putting his coffee down with a violence that made some slop into the saucer , Michele jumped to his feet . |
| 6 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 7 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 8 | We would also like to make contact with schools that make special efforts to interest students in science either within the class room or in extracurricular activities . |
| 9 | also like to make contact with schools that make special efforts to interest students in science either within the class room or in extracurricular activities . |
| 10 | I remember erm was n't it Eyre that made great mileage of saying that just because there 's a word for beauty does n't mean to say that there 's such a thing as beauty . |
| 11 | The main emphasis of the plan is to look for small and inexpensive solutions , and it places the onus on governments in the East to take steps that make economic sense . |
| 12 | that it may entail a level of expertise that makes lay scrutiny difficult ; |
| 13 | Whilst Brennan accepted that " desecration of the flag is deeply offensive to many " , he emphasized that punishing such behaviour " dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered and so worth revering " . |
| 14 | Another popular type has moulded plastic prongs that make spaced holes when pressed into the compost . |
| 15 | It may be this rare combination of sharp wit and soft heart that makes one reader at least believe that this man is marked out for fame . |
| 16 | Last Wednesday 's heavy New York papers , the Times and the Wall Street Journal , devoted acres of newsprint to the disastrous turn taken in the tide of IBM Corp 's affairs — but alongside , IBM still ran a chirpy RS/6000 ad with a picture of computer-generated bubbles , with a blurb entitled The Computer That Made This Picture is Also Making History . |
| 17 | The organisation 's uncertainty is shown by its decision not to have any particular point of view on the future of the European Community : a decision that makes more jaws than Mrs Thatcher 's drop . |
| 18 | Somehow the leader 's speeches , though full of the passionate phrases , could not summon from Majorism the spectre that made past invocations against Thatcherism so memorable . |
| 19 | Woods has outlined some of the constraints that appear to induce survival-based patterns of teaching in the secondary school system — the raising of the school-leaving age ( to which we would now add growing youth unemployment ) , which encourages staying-on among those not otherwise especially enamoured of their school experience ; the persistence and extension of 16+ examinations against which teachers ' own success will be judged ( more of this later ) ; continuing high levels of class size and teacher-pupil ratios that make individualized treatment and small-group work difficult ; and declining levels of resources , which make experimentation and adjustment of learning tasks to individual needs problematic and leave teachers in the position of having to rely on their own personal resources for managing the class . |
| 20 | There are obvious additional tasks to be carried out , such as de-blocking , overflow calculations and efficient packing of the file storage areas that make this limitation understandable . |
| 21 | But there was nothing conservative about the way in which Louis and his successor exploited the bishop of Clermont 's complaints against the count of the Auvergne to secure a foothold in the county ; it was their preparatory work that made possible Philip Augustus ' annexation of the Auvergne to the royal demesne . |
| 22 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 23 | Older people may take longer to retrain for new tasks than younger , but not to a degree that makes such retraining not worth while . |
| 24 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 25 | Butler had an easy manner but his searching cross-questioning gave him a reputation as a somewhat intimidating examiner or assessor for appointments , duties that made frequent calls on his time . |
| 26 | It was the circumstances that made this achievement even more outstanding . |
| 27 | In 1953 , Francis Crick and James Watson had a discovery that made genetic engineering possible : they uncovered the famous ‘ double helix ’ structure in deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) , the molecular code for all life and reproduction . |
| 28 | You know , the sort that make thick calves look even thicker and are only worn by women with thick calves . |
| 29 | It 's these little planes that make this gold rush possible . |
| 30 | The device that makes such issuance , endorsement-negotiation , and registration possible is the ‘ private key . ’ |