Example sentences of "[noun sg] that make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 've combined them in a shampoo that makes dry hair lustrous and more manageable . |
| 2 | Putting his coffee down with a violence that made some slop into the saucer , Michele jumped to his feet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | that it may entail a level of expertise that makes lay scrutiny difficult ; |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Older people may take longer to retrain for new tasks than younger , but not to a degree that makes such retraining not worth while . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You know , the sort that make thick calves look even thicker and are only worn by women with thick calves . |
| 16 | The device that makes such issuance , endorsement-negotiation , and registration possible is the ‘ private key . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Claudius II has been welcomed by speech therapists and users as a product that makes day-to-day life easier and more tolerable for those who have suffered sudden speech loss , ’ explained Ian Lyon of BT 's Action for Disabled Customers Unit . |
| 18 | The use of both was greatest in both declining and growing ( as opposed to stable ) firms , and this was taken as evidence for the view that it is firms facing fluctuating demand for output that make greatest use of temporary workers . |
| 19 | That was written twenty years and more before the trial and acquittal of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover in October–November 1960 — an event that made more headlines than practical difference , though it marks a convenient turning-point in British official attitudes to literary obscenity . |
| 20 | It is a tale full of interest , and it reveals an attitude to work and to the Service that makes pleasant reading ( unhappily some authors give the impression they had a less than fulfilling time while in the RAF ) . |
| 21 | You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom , and then you 're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you ca n't remember what happens next . ’ |
| 22 | When you produce an argument that makes practical sense , then of course I 'm prepared to listen . |
| 23 | If , if , if you 're right about this could you explain the psychological mechanism that makes these kinds of returns of the repressed happen , I mean why did the Fre why did the French students feel they had to recreate the revolution ? |
| 24 | Where less than full disclosure suffices , for example , as a matter of custom , a clause that made adequate disclosure might , if subject to UCTA , be rendered ineffective as an unreasonable exclusion clause . |
| 25 | As the importance of caring for carers has become more widely recognised , so too has the realisation that making better support for carers a reality is the responsibility not of a single agency but of many . |
| 26 | In an attempt to find out , society members gathered at her college to remember their heroine … but is it something in the Somerville air that makes good crime writers ? |
| 27 | No longer the excuse of keeping low profile actions , hoping for a Labour government because if we have n't got the guts to stand up and fight the government that made these laws , then we 've got no right to challenge a future Labour government that inherits 'em . |
| 28 | It is impossible to imagine that there is any purpose to life that makes any sense at all other than that life is to be enjoyed . |
| 29 | Lines of sight that make equal angles with the direction to the Centre intersect different volumes of the bar . |
| 30 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |