Example sentences of "that make [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 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 | This perception of Reagan as an ideologue had its beneficial side for ‘ the strong beliefs that made many voters fearful of Reagan also attracted voters to him , since they suggested leadership and decis-iveness — qualities widely felt to be lacking in the Carter presidency ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Pine resin , collected by tapping , dried to lumps that made brilliant firelighters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Something that made small noises , but even in the pitch blackness gave the impression of hugeness . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Northgate was the only foreign mining company that made major attempts to raise capital locally in Ireland . |
| 13 | … being the book that made black women 's writing popular |
| 14 | That was written twenty years and more before the trial and acquittal of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover in October–November 1960 — an event that made more headlines than practical difference , though it marks a convenient turning-point in British official attitudes to literary obscenity . |
| 15 | The adoption , for instance , of Darwinian views of evolution depended not simply on the intellectual breakthrough of a brilliant mind but on the conjuncture of social movements that made these propositions more acceptable then than they might have been at other periods . |
| 16 | No longer the excuse of keeping low profile actions , hoping for a Labour government because if we have n't got the guts to stand up and fight the government that made these laws , then we 've got no right to challenge a future Labour government that inherits 'em . |
| 17 | It had such incredible dignity and power , and it was something that made these villagers , these people who were being so tiresome , give way to her as she walked through them , and it 's in the music . |
| 18 | As Klein had so cruelly observed , he was a technician without a vision , and that made these days of meandering difficult . |
| 19 | Under the Brady deal , the banks that made these swaps were asked to tear up the old loans and choose among three new deals in their place . |
| 20 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That one line was an example of the writing and rewriting that made Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em such a success . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 28 | Another popular type has moulded plastic prongs that make spaced holes when pressed into the compost . |
| 29 | The information is transmitted vertically to other DNA in cells ( that make other cells ) that make sperms or eggs . |
| 30 | 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 . |