Example sentences of "[conj] makes [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although theft is illegal it is often regarded as normal and acceptable practice when an individual ‘ borrows ’ materials from his or her place of work for personal use — such as stationery , or makes 'phone calls on an office telephone . |
| 2 | So if anybody does patchwork knitting or makes blankets or anything for charity and they 'd like to give me a ring any time , I could give you the pattern . |
| 3 | It is often symbolic , or makes use of symbols , since a symbol is a visible form of a quality or ideal . |
| 4 | The Oxford Dictionary indicates that an ‘ organiser gives orderly structure or makes arrangements ’ . |
| 5 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 6 | Perhaps you have a medical condition that makes things worse — a back problem , arthritic or rheumatic pains , muscle tension , bad circulation or chest ailment . |
| 7 | Far from being … a system that makes things easy … it is one that demands the greatest effort and initiative … but in such a way that is within reach of all . |
| 8 | What do , gim me an example of a multi-national country , multi-national company in a developing country that makes things ? |
| 9 | The streets are busy but safe , and the sort of professional thieving that makes Lima a nightmare does not seem to exist . |
| 10 | Only by ignoring the procedural context can the expositor present criminal law in a way that makes nonsense of the sophisticated doctrine of crimes of specific intent . |
| 11 | Unlike some manufacturers , Skil has marked the sight lines on the front of the sole plate ‘ 0 ’ and ‘ 45 ’ , a simple feature that makes usage a lot easier . |
| 12 | Less obviously , a good product will be capable of being handled efficiently by every department in the company that makes contact with it , however slightly . |
| 13 | After a while he went out into the hall and I heard him pick up the thing that makes noises and which he talks into when there 's no-one here . |
| 14 | Consequently , what we get more often than not is a textureless meat with a slightly sweet taste and a gummy quality that makes stick in your teeth . |
| 15 | A company that makes replicas of Victorian bathrooms has won an order from Japan . |
| 16 | This in turn may help us to postulate structures beneath the surface , sequences and relations of acts , which may help us to go further towards finding the answer to our original problem : what is it that makes stretches of language coherent and communicative ? |
| 17 | It is the strength of feeling associated with the in-love state that makes choice feel irrelevant . |
| 18 | Mind you , a lot of them had come from the army and from the navy — but I do n't think that makes man 's nature alter to that effect . |
| 19 | It is this fact that makes preference shareholders legal owners of the firm and explains why preference shares are included with ordinary shares in the analysis of the firm : if preferred shareholders do not receive dividends , then neither will ordinary shareholders . |
| 20 | To expand the local airport and overbuild hotels would destroy the setting that makes Angkor Wat unique . |
| 21 | They also make the point that the one spider that makes daytime webs without stabilimenta , Nephila clavpes , has bright yellow silk , which , they say , makes the web conspicuous enough without the need for resorting to additional warning markers . |
| 22 | His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske . |
| 23 | Newman 's ‘ venture ’ , like Pascal 's wager , identified belief as a commitment undergone without the certainty of God 's existence — indeed a commitment that makes sense only without that certainty . |
| 24 | The American meteorological craft can not be looked at in isolation : they depend not only on Earth stations but also on processing equipment on the ground that makes sense of the data that the craft provide . |
| 25 | ‘ We want this to be an archive that makes sense of the City of London . |
| 26 | The second stage is to see what conclusions you can draw from the facts : in other words , to try to fit these into a pattern that makes sense . |
| 27 | You know , I mean , surely that makes sense does n't it ? |
| 28 | It is important to try to distinguish between fact and speculation and amid the speculation — since contemplating the future is inevitably to a high degree speculative — between the speculation that makes sense and that which does not . |
| 29 | But I want an explanation that makes sense . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You think there 's been anything that makes sense about tonight ? |