Example sentences of "that [vb mod] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Perry Farrell 's God , then that must make Eddie Vedder , singer with Pearl Jam , Jesus . |
| 2 | Slowly , the European Community is edging towards laws that might make rules on shareholdings and takeovers more homogeneous and more liberal , though a deal is many years away . |
| 3 | In times of social upheaval we guard against anything that might make society fragment too precipitately and dangerously , and we try to take care that racist or intolerant literature is suppressed . |
| 4 | Although there is little criticism of the foundation 's decision to support such research , other medical charities argue that its explicit exclusion of research on animals may encourage other smaller research-funding bodies to take a similar stand , a move that could make life increasingly difficult for medical researchers . |
| 5 | We have therefore sought additional analysis strategies that could make use of all the recorded data . |
| 6 | Whilst recognising the need to introduce measures that would make Colleges more self-supporting , it was considered unrealistic to expect such measures to be effective immediately . |
| 7 | Hart exhorts us that ‘ we should not cherish even as an ideal a rule so detailed that no new choices arise at the point of application ’ .6 Unger remarks that ‘ language is no longer credited with the fixidity of categories and the transparent representation of the world that would make formalism plausible in legal reasoning or in ideas about justice ’ . |
| 8 | What needs to be done before you move in — repair or installation work that would make life very uncomfortable for you if you were already living on the premises . |
| 9 | They were cross with each other because of him , and now Nanny was saying bad things about Smallfry that would make Buddie very , very angry . |
| 10 | Resplendent in outrageous fly — boy career that would make Del Boy Trotter green with envy , Henderson stuck firmly to the turf long after his career was over . |
| 11 | Then the music starts , and proceedings plunge from terrible to worse as Mick turns up his five-string fretless ego-bass and it farts rudely into our ears , followed by sickeningly bland streams of wah-wah guitar , scratching , torturous violin and pseudo- ‘ passionate ’ vocals all ‘ awash ’ ( © Tosspot Session Musician 's Handbook , 1972 ) in bloated keyboard atmospherics that would make ELP sound like The Lurkers . |
| 12 | The main fact that would make AT&T look twice is that it would not likely play well with its own shareholders in the short term . |
| 13 | Unionists were only interested in a deal that would make Lloyd George 's capture public . |
| 14 | When Harold Smith , the brother of F.E. , was asked for advice in organization by Huddersfield Unionists , he delivered them a lecture on Liverpool methods , and in the following year they elected F.E. Smith as their President to carry through reforms that would make Huddersfield like Liverpool . |
| 15 | As an international loan officer , I learned to forget about security and instead to develop a set of rationales that would make home office feel good about the loan , even though , technically , it was ‘ unsecured ’ . |
| 16 | Tests are being banned all over the US by the courts and legislatures , something that would make sense if they were as vicious and ineffectual as the press says they are . |
| 17 | When he came in the evening — it was by this time unthinkable that there should be an evening when he did not come — he might let slip something that would make sense of this new move . |
| 18 | That idea was immediately rejected when somebody pointed out that that would make Peter Walker the Secretary of State for Life . |
| 19 | To remedy this , a proposal has been made to the NUS that would make crèche facilities in different universities more similar . |
| 20 | It is true , of course , that the category was never intended to deny the existence of other racisms , nor as an all-encompassing identity that would make ethnicity invisible or irrelevant . |
| 21 | Of course G.P. has lived a life and has views that would make Mr Knightley turn in his grave . |
| 22 | To recoup , the government is expected to speed up the passage of a law that would make insider-trading a crime . |
| 23 | Now it seemed like the only thing that would make Christmas tolerable . |
| 24 | She was not going to say or do anything that would make John Major 's task more difficult : the Cabinet , here she indicated them with a sinuous wave of her hand , was the most brilliant since Herbert Asquith 's and , as for Central Office , and she looked directly at Sir Charles , who was mopping his brow , they were good men and true who strove mightily in the interests of the Party , and for precious little reward . |
| 25 | Slater reckons ‘ Apple is the one company that will make PowerPC happen ’ . |
| 26 | The big problem with this latter group is to find some sort of unifying factor that will make sense or give a theme to a miscellany of oddments that are less than distinguished . |
| 27 | Public lighting engineers give very considerable thought to the glare produced by their installations , but in designing lamps you have to compromise between an installation that will make things most visible , use least energy and produce least glare . |
| 28 | More topically Smith drives home the absurdity of the present British water industry installing meters in households and then setting up a huge bureaucracy to monitor them and gather payment — a move that will make water much more expensive ( and thus more attractive to the private companies which will eventually provide it ) . |
| 29 | The Government is desperate to stem the high drop-out rates from college courses and create a workforce that will make Britain more competitive . |
| 30 | But there is probably no substance that will make wrinkles disappear permanently and by midlife many of the lines on our faces have been etched there by laughter or frowns over the years . |