Example sentences of "[is] [pron] makes [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandie , who met Freddie when she was an 18-year-old dancer on his show , smiled broadly as he quipped : ‘ The real reason I 'm leaving my wife is she makes lousy coffee . ’ |
| 2 | For my life I can not understand , what is it makes this man now so lame , so hesitant , so crippled , who was wont to be hale and prompt enough . |
| 3 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 4 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 5 | I suspect that [ the ] very absence of quality is what makes such stuff attractive to children , not just because it is easy to read , undemanding , untaxing , but because the simplistic plots and characters leave children free to embroider and enrich the stories in their own way as they read . |
| 6 | The impotence of the two parties to the wage bargain to bring about a reduction in the real wage rate is what makes Keynesian unemployment involuntary . |
| 7 | But obviously the past is what makes any person . |
| 8 | This is what makes this type of exercise ( like jogging and cycling ) aerobic . |