Example sentences of "[that] make [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | One that made perfect sense to Ron and made perfect sense to me . |
2 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
3 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | As a consequence , the question of where to eat was one that made little impression on her . |
6 | If there were any volatile-rich bodies that made late impacts on the Moon then the weak gravitational field of the Moon would have allowed nearly all these volatiles to escape to space . |
7 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | As Klein had so cruelly observed , he was a technician without a vision , and that made these days of meandering difficult . |
10 | Economic expansion in seventeenth-century Europe , and the growth of the mining industry in particular , are given special prominence in an analysis that made generous allowance for the role of technical problems in defining areas of scientific research . |
11 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
12 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
13 | Inevitably , though , these were not the questions that made any impact on the ‘ mainland ’ electoral agenda . |
14 | Putting his coffee down with a violence that made some slop into the saucer , Michele jumped to his feet . |
15 | This influential book was full of recipes that made imaginative use of the lightness and freshness of vegetables , which sounded the death knell of the heavy , sweet , spiced dishes of medieval cookery , and which appeal just as much today . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Dr P 's argument is that in a piece of ‘ good ’ writing , there are certain qualities , above and beyond the techniques s/he uses to communicate an experience or belief , that make that piece of writing intrinsically superior to other pieces of literature . |
18 | What we share , the captain and us , is mastery of time — the freedom to order our day in ways that make better use of it . |
19 | Alternatively , there are several firms that make such ornaments from reconstituted stone . |
20 | Lines of sight that make equal angles with the direction to the Centre intersect different volumes of the bar . |
21 | Prince Charles was also critical of northern nations for failing to address adequately issues such as global warming , ozone depletion and marine pollution , and to " remove the barriers in the world economic and trading system that make sustainable development in the third world more difficult " . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The letters spell out a plan for making RNA replicase : for making machines that make more copies of the very same RNA plans , that make more machines that make more copies of the plans , that make more … |
24 | The letters spell out a plan for making RNA replicase : for making machines that make more copies of the very same RNA plans , that make more machines that make more copies of the plans , that make more … |
25 | At Sussex , we have analysed a variety of models for population genetic that make different assumptions about ( 1 ) the grouping patterns of prey , and their breeding systems , degree of conspicuousness and palatability , ( 2 ) the ability of predators to learn and remember , and ( 3 ) the population densities of predator and prey . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | ‘ Did all that make any sense to you ? ’ |
29 | However , violent sports that make excessive demands on the body with little preparation , can do more harm than good . |
30 | With modern microelectronic devices , however , automation is no longer only to be seen in factories that make identical goods in continuous streams , but is spreading to batch production . |