Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] makes [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maeve could be Kali , or even Mammy Water the lake goddess of Nigeria 's Ibo-land who makes beautiful women mad so she can possess their boyfriends . |
| 2 | Mira herself makes several appearances , both in the first and the third persons , before also discovering that her name is on the list as the delegate from Amalgamemnon , whereupon she too ‘ dies ’ . |
| 3 | For a feast of potatoes , I offer a medley of Chardonnays , the most fashionable grape variety which makes delicious wines — not just in its native Burgundy , but in vineyards all over the world . |
| 4 | The very flexibility which makes these machines attractive provides a danger to a profession which relies on unalterable evidence . |
| 5 | The heli-skier is lifted into remote parts of mountain ranges which other skiers can not reach , in the Alps , Sweden , the Himalayas and in New Zealand , and left to ski across unknown terrain which makes black runs look like nursery slopes . |
| 6 | Where bank affairs are closely tied to the fortunes of their leading customers through shared group affiliation , the lending bank and the borrowing company are bound to the same fate which makes unilateral changes in loan terms much less likely . |
| 7 | This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible . |
| 8 | Sometimes the farmer will be almost desperate to be rid of his rabbits since he regards them as a pest which makes undesirable inroads into the profitability of his farm . |
| 9 | The finished design is then transferred onto heavy-duty tracing paper and pierced by a picador , a machine which makes tiny holes along the traced lines . |
| 10 | Bains believed ‘ that the advice of officers must be available wherever the effective decisions are taken and if it is the party group which makes those decisions then a way must be found of making the officers ’ advice available ’ ( Bains 1972 : 18 — 19 ) . |
| 11 | The film is therefore built up in pieces , a process which makes particular demands of an actor — who is also vulnerable to technical problems with cameras , lighting and editing in a way which is quite removed from the stage actor 's experience . |
| 12 | For all that , Garb feels that Britain has an unparalleled intellectual community which makes these hardships easier to bear . |
| 13 | Every teacher who makes excessive sacrifices in the time and attention needed for his own personal growth to the demands of the organisation within which he works or to its students is ultimately denying to that organisation and those students the very knowledge , understanding and skill which it is his professional responsibility to offer . |
| 14 | From examination of family life and some of the needs of children at home , the next writer , Nigel Parton , moves to the tragic issue of child abuse , a form of adult behaviour which makes some children 's home life a nightmare and which social workers find is one of the most difficult problems they have to address . |
| 15 | Fred is the person who makes confident assertions like this . |
| 16 | I lack that biological instinct which makes most women want to reproduce themselves , especially when they are in their thirties and feel they might be leaving things a bit late . |
| 17 | Most stockbrokers charge a minimum commission which makes small deals very uneconomical . |
| 18 | To take in the Napa Valley there is the Wine Train which makes two trips a day ; the wines , are , of course , plentiful and varied . |
| 19 | His , however , is a love which makes exacting demands . |
| 20 | Somehow you do n't seem to me like a man who makes idle threats . ’ |
| 21 | Of course nothing remotely approaches the indulgent , yet time and time again Pollini characterises the music with an infinite subtlety which makes other interpretations appear almost cosmetic in comparison : listen to how gently he coaxes ( never caresses ! ) the opening phrases of and you 'll hear what I mean . |
| 22 | The newspaper Sovyetsyaka Kultura quoted Voronezh residents as saying that between 23-29 September they had repeatedly seen UFOs — including a three-eyed humanoid , a robot and a raygun which makes mere earthlings disappear . |
| 23 | Scores ( the total of correct answers ) are given to the headteacher who makes year-by-year comparisons for classes and individual children . |
| 24 | Against this background he makes two remarks about children : |
| 25 | To this end he makes periodic counts , from the issue records , of the number of books on loan in each category . |
| 26 | Until the slightly contrasting tendencies become more manifest in the later-second century ( with the trend to fully centralised designs etc. ) it is this characteristic which makes these designs complementary . |
| 27 | The 3M company which makes floppy disks has saved around $300 million over a decade by halving the waste it produces — boosting its net income by around five per cent . |
| 28 | An example of terms routinely implied in contracts of sale is that where goods are ordered from a manufacturer who makes such goods , it is implied that the goods are the manufacturer 's own make and supplied under his normal label for the brand ( see Johnson v Raylton ( 1881 ) 7 QBD 438 ; Scaliaris v E Ofverberg and Co ( 1921 ) 37 TLR 307 ) . |