Example sentences of "[noun pl] which make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ an excellent piece of methodology … one of those rare books which make good reading , and this one is packed with good activities … |
| 2 | What he can not do , of course , is articulate clearly his true reasons of state , reasons which make perfect sense in an administration context and obey all the rules of realpolitik , including the rule that you should have God on your side . |
| 3 | Then there is a group of more technical reasons which make statistical modelling and extrapolation more difficult , and inhibit attempts to overcome a shortage of resources for direct measurement by statistical estimation of soil losses . |
| 4 | On three sides are the dark oak galleries which make Basque churches both distinctive and extremely attractive and which are , in principle , reserved for the men . |
| 5 | The Advisory Committee forms part of the checks and balances which make this Hearing System so unique , and which , since its inauguration in 1971 , has kept many thousands of young people out of court . |
| 6 | Our drinks are served on elephants ' feet which make good side-tables and were once popular as souvenirs . |
| 7 | Companies which make first-use plastic might prefer recycled plastic to be used in opening up new markets , rather than competing with their products - for example , by substituting for timber . |
| 8 | Good management also means anticipating the changed circumstances which make structural development and adaptation necessary . |
| 9 | Corporate officials are able to transform motives which make corporate crime possible into actual behaviour because they operate in a subculture of ‘ structural immoralities ’ ( Mills 1956 : 138 ) . |
| 10 | I think there are aspects of the world in which we live and , and er , in which the church lives which make common confession of faith particularly difficult er today . |
| 11 | Accruing depreciation , stock valuations , provisions for doubtful debts , etc. , are subjective judgements which make historic cost profit subjective . |
| 12 | It 's also because many standard features on other packages which make repetitive jobs easier — like palettes , layer management and gradient fills — would be welcomed with open arms by Illustrator users . |
| 13 | One can not say the same for those films which make specific connections between earlier events in British history and now . |
| 14 | Better instruction and the consideration of aids which make eye-drop instillation easier should be implemented . |
| 15 | It is these same institutions which are responsible for the many second-rate modern buildings which make any comparisons between Barcelona and Leeds , Manchester and Milan , ludicrous . |
| 16 | Foucault argues that just as there can be no general theory of history , but only particular answers to particular questions which make individual practices intelligible , so the intellectual can best hope to be specific rather than universal ( universal in the sense of proposing transcendent values , systems , totalities , narratives or teleologies ) . |
| 17 | In this sense , the child 's conversational partner creates the conditions which make meaningful communication possible . |
| 18 | Here are some passenger figures which make interesting reading : — |
| 19 | They are the kind of assumptions which make whole sciences possible and rational , and they can not therefore be tested within these sciences . |
| 20 | In the first part of a new series , MARTIN CHILD reveals the qualities which make certain brushes perfect for use with acrylic media . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , these are not qualities which make much impression on a balance sheet . |
| 22 | In its publications , it claimed to be ‘ one of England 's Great Public Schools ’ ; it was ‘ the ‘ public school ’ of the sons of the poor , where , for a short time , they are trained in those qualities which make Public School boys so healthy , esprit de corps , obedience , humility , a sense of responsibility , honour and truthfulness ’ . |
| 23 | Profits from shipbuilding rose almost 40 per cent to £73.5 million , with the Norwegian and Finnish yards which make specialised cargo ships reporting good order books in spite of the recession . |
| 24 | The conditions of use to which all users are required to agree insist among other things that users should not attempt to identify particular individuals or households , that the data should only be used for academic purposes , and that any publications which make extensive use of the data should acknowledge this . |
| 25 | For the discourse analyst , as an overhearer , those connections can signal the coherence relations which make each contribution relevant to the discourse as a whole . |
| 26 | She argues that young children 's cognitive and linguistic abilities can be seen at their best in situations involving intentions , motives , or purposes — situations which make human sense . |
| 27 | Bacteria eats away the waste , producing gases such as carbon dioxide and methane and leaving behind rotting materials which make good soil conditioners . |
| 28 | Let's hope Matthew has n't been given any of those battery-operated toys which make irritating noises and Vicky does n't mangle everything . ’ |
| 29 | The contrast between these two cases should warn us against generalising propositions which make either fluidity and mobility of the working class , or tradition and community within particular branches , into uniquely favourable conditions for socialist organisation ( the first is perhaps Bologna 's temptation ; the second appears to be the temptation of the work done under the auspices of the ‘ History Workshop ’ ) . |
| 30 | The neo-classical assumption of an underlying tendency towards equality is , however , most hotly disputed by a school of thought which would argue , by contrast , that the very fact of uneven development at any one time creates further processes which make that inequality hard to counter . |