Example sentences of "what make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tessa Dahl 's famous father Roald certainly knew what made a good children 's book , and judging by The Same But Different , with illustrations by Arthur Robins ( Puffin , £2.99 ) , she 's got a pretty good idea too . |
| 2 | The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to . |
| 3 | That 's what making a new start is all about . |
| 4 | trying to think of what new schools and what making a new start , this er , for your file |
| 5 | Although the pattern in the warp is the same as the one across , where the two colours cross you get a secondary colour , and that 's what makes a successful plaid . ’ |
| 6 | What makes a successful indie label ? |
| 7 | WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL SEARCH CONSULTANT ? |
| 8 | So what makes a successful manager ? |
| 9 | What makes a professional person ? |
| 10 | What makes a casual worker " casual " ? |
| 11 | So many hon. Members have poured scorn , but what makes a political society work ? |
| 12 | Poetics , which ‘ deals primarily with the question , What makes a verbal message a work of art ? ’ , is an ‘ integral part of linguistics ’ , because the answer to this question is to be found entirely in the message 's verbal structure ( Sebeok 1971 : 350 ) . |
| 13 | Psychologists have studied the personalities of 50 players at three top clubs and discovered what every manager needs to know : what makes a great team player . |
| 14 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 15 | A chance to see what makes a perfect ploughman . |
| 16 | What makes a perfect playground ? |
| 17 | Because you have your own ideas of what makes a perfect kitchen , our specialist furniture designers offer you almost limitless design options . |
| 18 | This is due not so much to positive resistance on the part of the incumbent civil servants , as to their preconceptions of what makes a suitable candidate for the higher Civil Service . |
| 19 | The pervasiveness of a version of religion as culturally cosmetic subtly does a lot of harm to people ; it can be very dismissive and hurtful , marginalizing what makes a religious person tick . |
| 20 | What makes a new action relevantly similar to an old one ? |
| 21 | In last week 's programme I talked to Steven Medcalfe about novels , and asked him what makes a good read . |
| 22 | Sandy Lyle says fairness is what makes a good course … it 's important to be able to see the dangers from the tee … he says that the new Oxfordshire club has everything to make it a success … a lovely club house … good parking … within easy reach of motorways and is built for big tournaments |
| 23 | They specify what makes a good person and a good teacher . |
| 24 | But what makes a good witch ? |
| 25 | What makes a good retailer |
| 26 | What makes a good reading ? |
| 27 | Have you ever taken the time to ask parents what makes a good school ? |
| 28 | I tell you what we have n't got onto at all yet , and it 's something I said we would try and talk about wh which is what what makes a good parent ? |
| 29 | Is it possible to define what makes a good parent ? |
| 30 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |