Example sentences of "[that] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes means a time for us to be together , us and only us in a place that is beautiful and special and quiet and does n't know just how amazing a love is about to transform it into one of those Indian summer memories that make deaf old ladies grin knowingly , when you think they are dead in a deckchair on the sea front . |
| 2 | Environmental policies which did not take economic concerns into account were " doomed to fail " , he said , whereas " there is no better ally in the service of our environment than strong economies , economies that make possible increased efficiencies , that enable us to make environmental gains , economies that can generate new technologies and help us arrest and reverse the damage done to our environment " . |
| 3 | Seeming to bring them the waters that make drunk |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Another popular type has moulded plastic prongs that make spaced holes when pressed into the compost . |
| 6 | The scene was frantic : a sea of members but precious few stage-divers ( these guys like to keep their distance ) , simply ridiculous volume levels that make sure you only concentrated on the music , lovely melodies , and people getting away from the pressures of daily life in a northern town . |
| 7 | It is not too awful to be confronted with people cleverer than oneself ( in science journalism it happens quite a lot ) but it is intolerable to share the world with people who apparently are party to bodies of knowledge and ways of thinking that make all one 's own ideas seem petty . |
| 8 | In that sense , he is no ‘ revolutionary ’ , but rather a deep student of solutions , with a solid capacity for the kind of apparently trivial details that make all the difference between winning and losing , between safety and risk . |
| 9 | It is environmental factors and chemical interference that make all the difference to keeping the skin soft . |
| 10 | Convector heaters that make all the difference |
| 11 | Why could n't Jim see that it 's the little things that make all the difference ? |
| 12 | The personal , ‘ background ’ characteristics that make one person 's voice recognisably different from another . |
| 13 | Unlike the true rambler types with only one flush of bloom , the climbers group contains varieties that flower more or less continuously , and others that make two or more bursts or displays with periods between , during which little or no bloom is carried . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The information is transmitted vertically to other DNA in cells ( that make other cells ) that make sperms or eggs . |
| 16 | Dr P 's argument is that in a piece of ‘ good ’ writing , there are certain qualities , above and beyond the techniques s/he uses to communicate an experience or belief , that make that piece of writing intrinsically superior to other pieces of literature . |
| 17 | What we have to do is start looking at all the things that make that possible and try and do something else for all the things that do n't help you fill it . |
| 18 | What we share , the captain and us , is mastery of time — the freedom to order our day in ways that make better use of it . |
| 19 | That make 4 … and the whole teams only got 10 ( I think ! ) . |
| 20 | Alternatively , there are several firms that make such ornaments from reconstituted stone . |
| 21 | The work that I find so hard will become easy , for it is my attitude and inner blocks that make such heavy weather of it . |
| 22 | Indeed it is its very innateness , given sufficient divergence between different languages , that make such counterexamples seem possible . |
| 23 | But arguments of this nature , often plausible and just as often highly speculative , give some indication of the enduring characteristics of elite arguments that make such arguments readily comprehensible , and convincing in a synthetic manner , but lacking either the pretensions to analytic rigour of behaviouristic pluralism or the steam-roller systematic explanations of Marxism . |
| 24 | The drums and percussion section of orchestral recordings lack their customary undernourished bass and tizzy top-end — a reversal of the traditional finding with compact disc — and the strong pulse that underpins music as varied as Bach 's Violin Concertos and Stravinsky ballets ( both well represented in the test programme ) was captured with a power and ‘ snap ’ that make many of the Ariston 's closest price competitors sound feeble . |
| 25 | Nationalized industries tend to be much more capital-intensive than the rest of the economy , and it is precisely the presence of these large capital costs that generates the economies of scale that make many of these industries natural monopolies . |
| 26 | For the purposes of this book , the important point to grasp is that it is a way of studying social life that concentrates on the unwritten rules that make ordinary everyday social activity orderly , and tries to spell out these rules . |
| 27 | They recommend measures that make economic sense regardless of whether or not global warming is occurring , such as limiting deforestation and increasing energy efficiency . |
| 28 | The main emphasis of the plan is to look for small and inexpensive solutions , and it places the onus on governments in the East to take steps that make economic sense . |
| 29 | The aim is to replace the typographical codes with computer-usable codes that make explicit the function of the text . |
| 30 | Woods has outlined some of the constraints that appear to induce survival-based patterns of teaching in the secondary school system — the raising of the school-leaving age ( to which we would now add growing youth unemployment ) , which encourages staying-on among those not otherwise especially enamoured of their school experience ; the persistence and extension of 16+ examinations against which teachers ' own success will be judged ( more of this later ) ; continuing high levels of class size and teacher-pupil ratios that make individualized treatment and small-group work difficult ; and declining levels of resources , which make experimentation and adjustment of learning tasks to individual needs problematic and leave teachers in the position of having to rely on their own personal resources for managing the class . |