Example sentences of "[pron] makes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admire your loyalty , Paige , darling , but not when someone makes outrageous demands . |
| 2 | It is not a new idea , and it is the only demand around which all women can unite , the demand which makes explicit how it is that the working class is divided between the waged and the unwaged . |
| 3 | Julian Smith , marketing manager of the UK arm of TDK , which makes floppy disks , is dismissive of the rumours . |
| 4 | The 3M company which makes floppy disks has saved around $300 million over a decade by halving the waste it produces — boosting its net income by around five per cent . |
| 5 | Which makes that the adjacent . |
| 6 | We can not change our outer situation , but we can change our attitude to it , which makes all the difference in the world . |
| 7 | Cold , wet , tired shepherds , — trudging round at the dead of night — newborn lambs already suffering from exposure and ewes with wet coats often unable to give borderline lambs that vital warmth which makes all the difference . |
| 8 | I now have a regular exercise programme which I enjoy and I am a trim one-and-a-half stones lighter which makes all the difference to how I feel about myself " . |
| 9 | But the spirit generates the faith by which we know Christ , and it 's surely that which makes all the difference between the a mere interest in an historical Jesus and our real living faith in our risen conquering son . |
| 10 | He answers that first God should be loved with the humility and strength which makes all labour light so that no shame or anguish can destabilise the delight ( 111 – 12.99 – 137 ) . |
| 11 | And its the sorting which makes all money . |
| 12 | To take in the Napa Valley there is the Wine Train which makes two trips a day ; the wines , are , of course , plentiful and varied . |
| 13 | This is a collection of papers which makes extensive reference to the work I mention here . |
| 14 | Environmentalists have joined with racing enthusiasts and the Utah Film Commission , which makes extensive use of the flats , in an unusual alliance aimed at their preservation . |
| 15 | By posing an enigma and deferring its solution , the hermeneutic code pulls off a sleight of hand which makes delayed information synonymous with truth . |
| 16 | Vinelott J noted that the issue was not the admissibility of the transcript ( see s 433 of the Insolvency Act 1986 which makes admissible in evidence statements made under a requirement imposed by the 1986 Act ) but whether the SFO should be allowed to use it as evidence otherwise than in accordance with s 2(8) of the 1987 Act . |
| 17 | If your audience is Irish , even if you are Irish , you do not want a joke which makes Irish people appear stupid , but clever instead . |
| 18 | Philosophical reflexivity is not high on the agenda and in an organization which makes much of the concept of loyalty but really means subservience , the insider can find it hard to bite the hand that feeds and reveal any unhealthy aspect in the agenda . |
| 19 | All in all , some of the common manipulations are more unwieldy in Quattro Pro for Windows than in Excel , but in the areas of slide show production and database links , Quattro Pro for Windows offers a spreadsheet which makes much more use of the Windows environment . |
| 20 | The deal also includes associated production equipment at Alma 's Keillers plant , which will be moved into one of Cadbury 's Trebor Bassett factories , and the small Angus plant in Dundee which makes chocolate-covered nuts and raisins . |
| 21 | Sometimes the farmer will be almost desperate to be rid of his rabbits since he regards them as a pest which makes undesirable inroads into the profitability of his farm . |
| 22 | On a set of black traversed with silver scaffolding — which makes good use of spotlighting and puffs of smoke to evoke a sinister underworld — Mike Alfred 's production explores an interesting parallel between the motivation and morals of two distinct types of drama some three centuries apart . |
| 23 | It follows a very sensible line which makes good use of the existing paths along Dere Street and the Minchmoor , the drove road from Peebles over the Cauldstane Slap to the Lothian plain , the towpaths of the Union and the Forth-Clyde canals , and the Antonine Wall . |
| 24 | A British company called GPT , which makes many of the digital telephone exchanges used by BT , Mercury and others , has devised a way of upgrading its System X exchanges to link to UNIX machines so that anyone can write the software to run on them . |
| 25 | For a start he should read Alan Everitt 's essay , The Pattern of Rural Dissent : the Nineteenth Century ( 1972 ) , which makes many points of general interest through an analysis of the differing experiences of the counties of Leicestershire , Northamptonshire , Kent and that part of Lincolnshire known as Lindsey . |
| 26 | At the moment of Boy 's arrival , at the very moment that he was standing there framed in our doorway , hesitating ( which makes such a good entrance , though Boy was n't doing it deliberately ) , at that same time on that same first evening there was a terrible attack on one of the men from The Bar . |
| 27 | However , Sharp have a highly restrictive policy which makes such development difficult . |
| 28 | Which makes new Gold for Cooking just about the only way you can cut down on fat without cutting out most of your favourite dishes . |
| 29 | Attacking Lady Chatterley 's Lover ( which he was later prepared to defend ) , Eliot wrote of a ‘ morbidity which makes other of his female characters bestow their favours upon savages . |
| 30 | Of course nothing remotely approaches the indulgent , yet time and time again Pollini characterises the music with an infinite subtlety which makes other interpretations appear almost cosmetic in comparison : listen to how gently he coaxes ( never caresses ! ) the opening phrases of and you 'll hear what I mean . |