Example sentences of "that make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One that made perfect sense to Ron and made perfect sense to me . |
| 2 | It was the notion of literariness that made Russian Formalism scientific and systematic , and more than an eclectic set of insights into the workings of literature . |
| 3 | Strategically that made little sense , for the Wilds were almost empty , yet it was as if the City 's architect had known that this vast , jagged hole — this primitive wilderness at the heart of its hive-like orderliness — would one day prove its weakest point . |
| 4 | As a consequence , the question of where to eat was one that made little impression on her . |
| 5 | The third element that made Easy Rider the runaway , roaraway success that it became in the counter-culture movement was Jack Nicholson , angry and surely envious — though he denied it — at seeing some of his flash contemporaries and some younger actors making it very big indeed in the legitimacy of more sumptuous surroundings of Warners , Paramount , MGM and the rest . |
| 6 | I remember erm was n't it Eyre that made great mileage of saying that just because there 's a word for beauty does n't mean to say that there 's such a thing as beauty . |
| 7 | Yes , that made more sense . |
| 8 | Economic expansion in seventeenth-century Europe , and the growth of the mining industry in particular , are given special prominence in an analysis that made generous allowance for the role of technical problems in defining areas of scientific research . |
| 9 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 10 | Yet — there was an enduring lone voice among the internal babble which held out strong and true for Dane , and somehow its message was the only one that made any sense . |
| 11 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 12 | The central problem developed when the participatory nature of ritual was destroyed and replaced with a concept of a god who had no need for the feelings of people , who was placed above them in ways that made any behaviour other than worship and penitence irrelevant . |
| 13 | Inevitably , though , these were not the questions that made any impact on the ‘ mainland ’ electoral agenda . |
| 14 | The blackness enveloped so warm and close and , I believed , extended infinitely away from the street on all sides , something that made any street plan impossible . |
| 15 | Where less than full disclosure suffices , for example , as a matter of custom , a clause that made adequate disclosure might , if subject to UCTA , be rendered ineffective as an unreasonable exclusion clause . |
| 16 | It was the circumstances that made this achievement even more outstanding . |
| 17 | My real interest — beyond my own cancer — was the world I had just entered , those twin factors that made this visit so very different from my last one , age and illness . |
| 18 | Last Wednesday 's heavy New York papers , the Times and the Wall Street Journal , devoted acres of newsprint to the disastrous turn taken in the tide of IBM Corp 's affairs — but alongside , IBM still ran a chirpy RS/6000 ad with a picture of computer-generated bubbles , with a blurb entitled The Computer That Made This Picture is Also Making History . |
| 19 | But it was not only the work of Vredeman de Vries that made this garden so remarkable . |
| 20 | Putting his coffee down with a violence that made some slop into the saucer , Michele jumped to his feet . |
| 21 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 22 | This influential book was full of recipes that made imaginative use of the lightness and freshness of vegetables , which sounded the death knell of the heavy , sweet , spiced dishes of medieval cookery , and which appeal just as much today . |
| 23 | In 1953 , Francis Crick and James Watson had a discovery that made genetic engineering possible : they uncovered the famous ‘ double helix ’ structure in deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) , the molecular code for all life and reproduction . |
| 24 | Her brother , Roger Lewis , already had a company that made gigantic floor cushions , so the three of them teamed up and opened a cushion shop in Chelsea . |
| 25 | Genetics may contribute to a specific vulnerability , or may operate indirectly by predisposing to obesity or personality traits that make restrictive dieting and anorexia nervosa more likely . |
| 26 | The personal , ‘ background ’ characteristics that make one person 's voice recognisably different from another . |
| 27 | Dr P 's argument is that in a piece of ‘ good ’ writing , there are certain qualities , above and beyond the techniques s/he uses to communicate an experience or belief , that make that piece of writing intrinsically superior to other pieces of literature . |
| 28 | What we share , the captain and us , is mastery of time — the freedom to order our day in ways that make better use of it . |
| 29 | They recommend measures that make economic sense regardless of whether or not global warming is occurring , such as limiting deforestation and increasing energy efficiency . |
| 30 | The main emphasis of the plan is to look for small and inexpensive solutions , and it places the onus on governments in the East to take steps that make economic sense . |