Example sentences of "[conj] makes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good deal of research carried out in Britain and elsewhere between the late 1940s and the present chiefly by industrial sociologists and psychologists , demonstrates fairly conclusively that a high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies can work effectively at their accustomed or preferred occupation , even when this is physically quite heavy or makes significant intellectual demands . |
| 2 | It is not concerned with the merits of the instruments but rather with whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to the legislation in that it : ( a ) imposes a tax or fee on the public or a charge on the public revenue ; ( b ) is made pursuant of an enactment containing specific provisions excluding it from challenge in the courts ; ( c ) purports to have retrospective effect when there is no express authority in the enabling statute ; ( d ) has been unduly delayed in publication or laying before Parliament ; ( e ) has come into operation before being laid before Parliament and there has been unjustifiable delay in informing the Speaker ; ( f ) is of doubtful vires or makes some unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the enabling statute ; ( g ) calls for any special reason of form or content , for elucidation ; ( h ) is defective in its drafting . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) if he becomes bankrupt or insolvent or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors ; |
| 4 | ( 3 ) if he becomes bankrupt or insolvent or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors ; |
| 5 | ( 4 ) A change in the " content " or " subject " of the learning experience is justified because it enriches the learning experience or makes these experiences more meaningful and thus more developmental ; i.e. we change content as instrumental in making the processes more effective . |
| 6 | If the driver does not respond , a back-up system automatically applies the brakes or makes less engine power available . |
| 7 | The one thing that makes decent family life possible in these unpromising environments is stark drudgery ; the role of the wife and mother involves an endless round of unremitting , indeed , heart-breaking , but thankless , labour . |
| 8 | We should tend the mind as a precious jewel box and factory that makes intangible but immortal gems . |
| 9 | The Fengtai school , in a suburb of Beijing , has set up a factory that makes hydraulic cylinders for use in the steel industry . |
| 10 | The fastest growing new US business in 1983 was a company that makes indoor exercise equipment . |
| 11 | You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom , and then you 're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you ca n't remember what happens next . ’ |
| 12 | They are likely to run from the sort of fight that makes good corporate governance stick . |
| 13 | In an attempt to find out , society members gathered at her college to remember their heroine … but is it something in the Somerville air that makes good crime writers ? |
| 14 | But , over the past few months , I have been investigating something that makes such abstractions far more impressive . |
| 15 | Older people may take longer to retrain for new tasks than younger , but not to a degree that makes such retraining not worth while . |
| 16 | The device that makes such issuance , endorsement-negotiation , and registration possible is the ‘ private key . ’ |
| 17 | The spontaneous self-confidence of her writing voice , when you first discover it , comes over as a triumph of the human spirit — but also as a terrible indictment of the society that makes such a voice so rare , so virtually impossible . |
| 18 | There are some waters that lie in valleys where the wind has little if any influence on the water , apart from a scurrying ripple that makes little difference to the temperature layers , dissolved oxygen , or food distribution . |
| 19 | When you produce an argument that makes practical sense , then of course I 'm prepared to listen . |
| 20 | Their natural curiosity and concretization of ideas will often give them a certainty of their own that makes much more sense . |
| 21 | In recent years , it has become clear that very simple measures of reaction time ( particularly choice reaction time ) and variability in reaction time correlate very highly with ordinary IQ measures , to an extent that makes much of the theorising in this book inapplicable , Similarly , measures of inspection time have shown uncommonly high correlations with IQ , particularly in below average subjects . |
| 22 | So that makes four now . |
| 23 | It sets the scene perhaps for it said it is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and he adds no sorrow to it . |
| 24 | Three years ago , Craig Fields was forced out as director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) after Prabhakar , then deputy director of DARPA 's defence sciences office , made a $4 million investment in Gazelle Microcircuits Inc. , a tiny Silicon Valley semiconductor company that makes high-speed gallium arsenide chips . |
| 25 | A curious selection , but one that makes perfect sense once you realise it belongs to Dieter Meier , all-round oddball and the lyrical half of that crazy Swiss duo , Yellow . |
| 26 | If I can think of one thing that makes modern software easy to use leading up to Windows it is the split screen . |
| 27 | It may be this rare combination of sharp wit and soft heart that makes one reader at least believe that this man is marked out for fame . |
| 28 | It is not at all easy to see what it is that makes one thing tough and another brittle because the substances in each of these lists seem to have little enough in common . |
| 29 | In fact , this means that our answer will amount to an account of what it is for a non-observation statement to be significant , and what it is that makes one such statement mean something different from what another one means . |
| 30 | If , day after day , the mind is habituated to the compassionate idea of love for all people , then at last , it seems to fill with a substance that makes all the moments of life sweet . |