Example sentences of "what makes [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What makes Lewis 's criticism rather different is a combination of two very rare qualities . |
| 2 | Facing genuine guilt as well as the attrition of the person 's physical and mental world is what makes psychotherapy with the ageing an intellectually and emotionally powerful experience . |
| 3 | For her own part , there was never any question of her not studying science and she is the best sort of role model because of her enthusiasm : ‘ Just finding out what makes things work . |
| 4 | What makes things worse is that at the moment a company acquiring another can often choose which method to adopt . |
| 5 | I think from my own personal preference I would very much like to have an understanding of what happens at the interface between solids and liquids , because this affects so many different branches of chemistry and physics _ the understanding of what happens at interfaces will govern the understanding of what makes things stick together , what makes catalysis occur , the nature of rocks even . |
| 6 | What makes things harder still for the Morleys is the fact they still do n't seem any nearer receiving compensation . |
| 7 | No such luck : what makes sex much more complicated but also much more interesting and rewarding is that every single one of us has to learn what it 's all about for ourselves — as unique individuals . |
| 8 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 9 | By clinging to the Union Jack , is n't Morrissey clinging to what makes England distinct from , say , the United States and the rest of the world ? |
| 10 | What makes Britain together with Israel and New Zealand , constitutional democracies , despite the absence of codified constitutions , is this very fact that their governments in general feel under pressure to conform to such norms ; when accused of unconstitutional action their defence is not that the term ‘ unconstitutional ’ is without meaning , but that their actions can , despite appearances , be defended in constitutional terms . |
| 11 | For us art is what makes propaganda effective . |
| 12 | That 's what makes friends who knew his father notice the resemblance . |
| 13 | What makes horses ‘ tick ’ ? |
| 14 | Legislation apart , there is plenty to keep Jacques Delors , the commission 's president , and his team , busy : the GATT talks , a study of what makes Europe 's economy uncompetitive , an attempt to get governments to accept more liberal trade relations with Eastern Europe , and so on . |
| 15 | The thin end of the wedge is that this chips away at the core of what makes union unique : it is a game for all shapes and sizes . |
| 16 | ‘ What makes chenille different from other carpets is that it 's the product of two distinct processes , the formation of the chenille fur , and the weaving of that fur , which is the weft , into a carpet . ’ |
| 17 | There are four known sources exerted between particles of matter : the electro-magnetic force ( which is what makes magnets attract pins , but is more generally important on the subatomic scale , gravity ( negligible on the small scale but supremely important on the large scale ) and two others , the weak and the strong nuclear forces ( neither of which need concern us here ) . |
| 18 | This is the brickbat that has been thrown at Pound from the first , and is thrown at him still , because of his unswerving attention to what makes poetry poetry , and not some other sort of discourse versified . |
| 19 | What makes Mozart 's music unique ? |
| 20 | Regulation is a nasty continental vice , what the European Commission does , what makes Jacques Delors run . |
| 21 | But society decides what makes behaviour unusual or undesirable . |
| 22 | The question is , what makes Peter such an angry father ? |
| 23 | What makes Paul tick ? |
| 24 | What makes Sanskrit unique is that this ancient Indian language of enlightenment was not ‘ thought up ’ but heard by yogis in meditation . |
| 25 | What makes Sanskrit unique is not just its structure , grammar or syntax , though all these qualities make it an enviable language for use by computer scientists . |
| 26 | Today we look at what makes boys tick in the second part of our exclusive Daily Mirror teenage sex survey . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , our view of Japanese society is often supported by an underlying assumption that a tendency towards social consensus rather than social or class conflict , is what makes Japan different . |
| 28 | He prepared fillet of beef , explaining what gives meat its colour , what makes meat tough , and totally destroying the recipe book idea that time for cooking meat is determined by weight . |
| 29 | There are primarily those about animal welfare ; what makes creatures healthy ones given what we strive for in our treatment of them as pets , as a food source , in zoos , or conserved in the wild . |
| 30 | Subsequent stages will cover Consultation ( what makes work effective ) and Implementation ( quality control , validation procedures , national delivery ) . |