Example sentences of "that [noun] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is evidence that sons make considerable efforts to provide support for their parents even when they are in straitened circumstances themselves . |
| 2 | The aim of this study is to determine the economic and political factors which cause prices and incomes controls to be imposed and to determine their effects on economic variables taking into acount the possibility that decision-makers make informed guesses about the probability of the onset of controls and thus alter their behaviour from what it would otherwise have been . |
| 3 | Paying attention to biology need not involve assuming that biology makes fixed contributions to psychology ( Hirst and Wooley 1982 ) , or even that all biological discourses are the same . |
| 4 | She protests that allegations made this week are untrue and hurtful . |
| 5 | He claims that professionals make important contributions to the functional well-being of society and in addition , their services are highly regarded in terms of society 's values . |
| 6 | Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought . |
| 7 | There is a common , whispered suspicion that lawyers make legal documents unecessarily long because they are paid by the word or by the inch . |
| 8 | Most staff are untrained and there is as yet little evidence that training makes much difference to the quality of care ( Sinclair , 1988b , p. 270 ) . |
| 9 | Initially there appeared to be little to choose between them , but careful comparative trials showed that Marsilid made more contribution than isoniazid to the improvements in appetite and the weight gain . |
| 10 | We in the prosperous West have learnt that women make capable company directors , surgeons , politicians . |
| 11 | Thus it would be perfectly possible for a sexist to argue from the very findings reported in this chapter that women make poor leaders and high-pressure salespersons because of their lack of assertiveness , whereas they make good carers ( nurses , home helps and so on ) because of their sensitivity to the needs of other people in conversation . |
| 12 | ADT alleges that Binders made negligent misrepresentations during its 1990 takeover of Britannia Security Group . |
| 13 | keith richardson says that Gloucester made basic errors and could have helped themselves to nineteen points … you ca n't afford to make such errors against a team like Bath and in the end things went badly wrong |