Example sentences of "that make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Inevitably , though , these were not the questions that made any impact on the ‘ mainland ’ electoral agenda . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | It was directed by Charles Crichton , a veteran from Ealing , the studio that made Kind Hearts and Coronets , which treated serial killing as a joke almost half a century ago . |
| 38 | It was the circumstances that made this achievement even more outstanding . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | But it was not only the work of Vredeman de Vries that made this garden so remarkable . |
| 42 | That one line was an example of the writing and rewriting that made Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em such a success . |
| 43 | Putting his coffee down with a violence that made some slop into the saucer , Michele jumped to his feet . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | It was this sweetness of tone that made National Tri-Plates a favourite of Hawaiian lap-steel players , although — bizarrely enough — the National company had much higher ambitions for their guitars . |
| 47 | He was a squat muscular man with freckled brown skin , strong arms and dry sand-coloured palms that made rasping sounds when he rubbed them together . |
| 48 | I predict you 'll find that we are not insensitive to the needs of our licensees , or to the culture that made open systems a reality ; neither Roel Pieper nor Ray Noorda are Grinches ; and the Unix System , as a result of this merger , will be stronger than ever . |
| 49 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Somehow the leader 's speeches , though full of the passionate phrases , could not summon from Majorism the spectre that made past invocations against Thatcherism so memorable . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Another popular type has moulded plastic prongs that make spaced holes when pressed into the compost . |
| 55 | The personal , ‘ background ’ characteristics that make one person 's voice recognisably different from another . |
| 56 | The information is transmitted vertically to other DNA in cells ( that make other cells ) that make sperms or eggs . |
| 57 | And Disney 's current production run is being financed partly by $200m given by a group of Japanese investors on terms that make other studios green with envy . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Indeed it is its very innateness , given sufficient divergence between different languages , that make such counterexamples seem possible . |