Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] makes the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could they liaise more with external agencies to develop a co-ordinated programme which makes the best use of their respective strengths ? |
| 2 | The feature of most interest is sentence length , because when we estimate the contribution made by each feature to the total amount of time spent reading , it is the number of words in a sentence which makes the largest difference between the two groups . |
| 3 | Corporate Jets , the former British Aerospace subsidiary which makes the best-selling 125 business jet , has been sold to American company Raytheon for £250m . |
| 4 | Corporate Jets , the British Aerospace subsidiary which makes the best-selling 125 business jet , recently was sold to the US company Raytheon for £250m . |
| 5 | Two alternative explanations can be proposed : 1 ) the C-terminal part of α-subunit makes contacts with the upstream region of the promoter ; 2 ) the C-terminal deletion of α induces a conformational change in RNA polymerase which makes the truncated holoenzyme unable to bind to the upstream part of the promoter . |
| 6 | At first the family gather round it and at the end as the actors steal away into the darkness it is the piano which makes the final sounds . |
| 7 | At first the family gathers round it and at the end , as the actors steal away into the darkness , it is the piano which makes the final sounds . |
| 8 | It is a curious method of story-telling which makes the five characters seem remote and alone , their lives never quite real . |
| 9 | This will produce the same triumphant progress only if ‘ the intellectual and moral faculties of man ’ are not of a deeply peculiar sort which makes the social world radically unlike the natural . |
| 10 | Any vibration which makes the surrounding molecules of air vibrate can cause sound . |
| 11 | But pollution causes a production externality which makes the marginal social cost MSC exceed the marginal private cost . |
| 12 | In addition , as we saw in Chapter III , it concerns the kind of factor which makes the relevant counterfactual claims true . |
| 13 | From the United States of America , however , comes a genus which will survive all but the coldest of winters and provide that long season of colour which makes the half hardy perennials such a popular group of garden plants . |
| 14 | Only one form of training in managing this double act is likely to succeed : staff and governors need to be encouraged to support every movement which makes the best of their own school . |
| 15 | The bright gold and green foliage which makes the crowning glory of the winter border has to become a backdrop for the summer garden . |
| 16 | Finally , it provides that ‘ the state which makes the preliminary enquiry … shall promptly report its findings to the said states and shall indicate whether it intends to exercise jurisdiction ’ — in other words , whether to prosecute or extradite . |
| 17 | It is the poverty of their own life which makes the poor content to inhabit ‘ unthinkable ’ houses … which makes so many careless of cleanliness , listless about the unhealthy condition of their workshops , and heedless of anything beyond the enjoyment of a moment 's excitement … |
| 18 | But Dilys Powell could reasonably complain of Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) that there was ‘ hardly any suspense , hardly any of the building up to a climax which makes the dullest American film tolerable ’ , and enthuse about Carol Reed 's A Girl Must Live ( 1939 ) , saying it showed how the British could make ‘ a comedy which has the speed and glitter and impudence of the best American comedies . ’ |
| 19 | It is the complexity of these issues and the necessity for the widest consultation which makes the Common Core design task such a lengthy one . |
| 20 | The illustrations are ‘ stripped in ’ as separate films , and the whole film goes to a process camera which makes the lithographic printing plate . |
| 21 | The technique explained in this chapter , resistant line fitting , produces a line which makes the absolute value of the deviations in the Y direction as small as possible ( rule 3 ) . |
| 22 | REGINA , the royal jelly company which makes the magic queen bee elixir taken by stars like Cliff Richard and Maureen Lipman , stung the City yesterday with massive losses . |
| 23 | I am sure that Letterman would like to have some of Polanski 's assurance with young women , a knowingness which makes the Californian mania for self-presentation look quaint . |