Example sentences of "that made the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was , after all , the absence of free trade unions that made the Soviet Union such an effective tyranny , for there was no protector of the individual against the system ; and it was Polish Solidarity that began the unravelling of the communist tyranny .
2 Agricultural prosperity rested on secure tenures that made the substantial farmers feel themselves to be full proprietors .
3 But it was guarding the Japanese prisoners in Changi Jail that made the deepest impression on the 20-year-old sergeant from Billingham .
4 The only road was a quarter of a mile away up a track , leading down to the campsite itself , so that made the immediate area pretty safe .
5 Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional success all the more thrilling .
6 Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional successes all the more thrilling .
7 Even Riven laughed with the rest as they piled into the inn Finnan had told them of , and Ratagan wished the landlord good day in a roar that made the poor man cower .
8 Ramsay MacDonald was beaten by such a campaign in 1921 with language that made the general election of 1918 seem tame .
9 If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then .
10 It was only the breeze when the car was moving that made the warm air breathable .
11 ‘ Fowler ’ was inserted for ‘ Tebbit ’ on the placards and the demonstration went ahead with a degree of intimidation that made the front page of every national newspaper the next day .
12 If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance .
13 This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore .
14 His illusions started with reality too , that made the jumping-off point , in the same way that an illusionist on stage has a real girl ; they had to have near possibility , nothing too extreme , not at the beginning anyway .
15 The crucial invention that made the mechanical clock possible was the ‘ verge-and-foliot ’ escapement .
16 The gait of the creatures that made the four sets of trails has been described in detail , two weeks ago , at a conference in Berkeley , California .
17 Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris .
18 ‘ Are you really all right ? ’ he said with a seriousness that made the familiar question matter .
19 Rondar 's 370 , designed by Stephen Jones specifically for the competition , was one of the two boats that made the final selection .
20 He was left screaming in a terrible wailing sob that made the nearest infantry look nervously round .
21 And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still .
22 It was Smarties that made the coloured hand prints on the wall ; with Smarty ‘ buns ’ she would charm all the grown-ups , and with Smarty ‘ prezzies ’ they would encourage her performances and tricks ; with Smarties she would entertain her invisible friends ; Smarties bribed her to bed , to bath , to the toilet .
23 She quickly began to sketch , and at the same time tried to imprint on her mind the combination of colours that made the whole scene so eerily effective .
24 He said : ‘ I 'm desperate to regain a Cup place , and that made the whole episode even worse . ’
25 It was , however , the Robbins Report in 1963 on higher education that made the strongest case for investment in education to aid economic growth .
26 The size of the holes , and the thickness of the surrounding bubbles of enriched galaxy formation , depend on the details of the perturbations fed in to the idealised model calculations , and this offers hope that better observations of these holes in the Universe may reveal information about the kinds of disturbances that made the big bang of creation develop irregularly .
27 ‘ I 'll put the kettle on , ’ Claudia said ; she wanted something to do — it was silly to feel shy , but there was something between them today that made the very air vibrate .
28 Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity .
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