Example sentences of "that make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One that made perfect sense to Ron and made perfect sense to me . |
2 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
3 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Butler had an easy manner but his searching cross-questioning gave him a reputation as a somewhat intimidating examiner or assessor for appointments , duties that made frequent calls on his time . |
6 | Pine resin , collected by tapping , dried to lumps that made brilliant firelighters . |
7 | Two Swedes came to a town near here with a grant , and started a factory that made micro-electric parts or something — anyway , it would supposedly employ hundreds of local people . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Something that made small noises , but even in the pitch blackness gave the impression of hugeness . |
10 | But there was nothing conservative about the way in which Louis and his successor exploited the bishop of Clermont 's complaints against the count of the Auvergne to secure a foothold in the county ; it was their preparatory work that made possible Philip Augustus ' annexation of the Auvergne to the royal demesne . |
11 | If there were any volatile-rich bodies that made late impacts on the Moon then the weak gravitational field of the Moon would have allowed nearly all these volatiles to escape to space . |
12 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
15 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
16 | Northgate was the only foreign mining company that made major attempts to raise capital locally in Ireland . |
17 | … being the book that made black women 's writing popular |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |