Example sentences of "[Wh det] make the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This period therefore saw the culmination of tendencies already visible in previous generations which made the diplomatic services of Europe more technically efficient than ever before . |
| 2 | The steering committee which made the late changes to the report consisted of representatives from the European Commission , the lead additives companies Associated octel , Ethyl and SIAC , the International Lead and Zinc Research organisation , Agip Petrol and the United States ' Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 3 | A serious blow , of course , was also dealt to the reputation of the Labour Party , which controlled many of the councils with the greatest needs and which made the heaviest demands on the public purse , and whose members were least apologetic about doing so . |
| 4 | He maintained that an interest in chemistry was inborn in Germans , who also possessed a ‘ cold-blooded spirit of research , slow but accurate reflection and unremitting patience ’ , which made the best chemists . |
| 5 | There was therefore good reason for using related but innocuous species and accepting the chance of missing key properties which made the virulent organisms dangerous . |
| 6 | Such a figure may seem insignificant but it represented a strength of purpose and feeling which made the small groups men and women of courage . |
| 7 | A wind such as East Anglia only knows , cruel , ‘ lazy ’ ( too lazy to go round you , going through you instead ) , a wind which made the old ladies in the town say : ‘ Oi 've got me thermals on ’ . |
| 8 | For today 's kites have one unique quality which made the old ones so tiresome to fly . |
| 9 | The very circumstance , however , which made the public schools a perfect vehicle for propaganda — their isolation , through the boarding system , from the outside world and the idiosyncratic influence of families — ensured that Dr Arnold , in his crusade for the personal salvation of his charges , could enjoy no more than a limited success . |
| 10 | It hints that it is politicians , not disposal plants , which make the two places differ . |
| 11 | It is a curious method of story-telling which makes the five characters seem remote and alone , their lives never quite real . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | Any vibration which makes the surrounding molecules of air vibrate can cause sound . |
| 16 | But the ‘ guessed ’ dose had been well chosen , and the bone marrow , which makes the white cells , recovered . |
| 17 | Compliance with section 242 is the most important of the four since it is the one which makes the statutory accounts available to the general public . |
| 18 | If he does respond , the early stages of the diet may produce a remarkable improvement , which makes the subsequent stages a great deal easier for all concerned . |
| 19 | From here you can see the summit of lofty Braeriach to the south-west , iced with a mantle of snow for the majority of the year , and you start to understand what made the old men in shirt sleeves point . |