Example sentences of "that [verb] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mouth was opening and closing , spewing words at him that failed to make any contact in his mind . |
| 2 | There are other important questions , such as the general characteristics of behaviour that tends to get identified as child abuse and the social conditions that tend to make such behaviour more or less likely . |
| 3 | It has been a lack of progress on other fundamental changes in society that has made effective implementation of either programme so difficult . |
| 4 | There have been few serious attempts to break away from this restrictive framework ; it is the absence of the application of any theoretical framework that has made such work so sterile , and it is doubtful whether evidence will be found for the social and economic developments during the period by studying art-styles , date and distribution alone , unless specific questions are formulated first . |
| 5 | The first is the launch by Corin of a revolutionary universal hip that enables surgeons to tailor hip replacements to the patient , whilst the second is the advance by AEA of a technique for measuring bone density that has made early detection of bone wastage possible for the first time . |
| 6 | The technical trick that has made cheap laser-printers possible has also brought type design and typesetting to a far wider market . |
| 7 | Perhaps that is one of the safeguards that has made this country such a successful and stable parliamentary democracy . |
| 8 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |
| 9 | It is this that has made some Americans say that , if Iraq agreed to withdraw from Kuwait , it must abandon its tanks and other heavy equipment . |
| 10 | Now , as a step away from the craftsman entrepreneur that has been John Makepeace 's hallmark he has introduced a new course to Hooke Park College for manufacturing businesses that want to make better use of wood . |
| 11 | Appeared in 22 Carry Ons , including Carry On With The Same Old Camp Jokes That Helped Make Gay People A Hated Minority . |
| 12 | THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business . |
| 13 | The wife and mother who goes out of the home to earn a wage , to escape being totally dependent on a man , being isolated in the home , and the penny-pinching that trying to make one wage feed the family involves , takes a second job . |
| 14 | Donkeys saluted our passing with those howls of anguish that had made maiden ladies establish animal sanctuaries in Cairo between the wars . |
| 15 | It had a breathless untidiness , with an underlying stratum of solid good things : expensive carpets and curtains in dark plain colours , antique furniture ranging from valuable to junk , but having in common a charm or whimsicality that had made each piece claim her attention originally . |
| 16 | According to one modern historian , their " systematic destruction of all that had made western Europe a going concern economically " marked the definitive break between the sub-Roman and medieval worlds . |
| 17 | The patient , domestic acts performed in this country of fogs and mists that had made English murderers the doyens of the civilized globe . |
| 18 | Mary Hammond-Heath had distinguished herself as junior to a QC in a fraud case that had made national headlines , and was inclined to regard the Bouveries ' life as an excellent test case for some of her theories . |
| 19 | Practice that had made these things second nature to the T'ang . |
| 20 | ‘ Marstons must realise that it is the skills and enterprise of the licensees that have made these pubs so popular , ’ said branch spokesman Robert Whatley . |
| 21 | Furthermore , he claims that attempts to make clerical work more routine have had a limited impact because clerical skills and qualifications have not been standardized . |