Example sentences of "[conj] this make they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that this made them live longer — average life expectancy was only 38 . |
| 2 | Pregnant women experience increased laxity of their ligaments due to increased production of the hormone relaxin , and he argues that this makes them more prone to soft tissue injury than normal . |
| 3 | Some knew about the various methods of pain relief available , but others had no idea at all , and this made them feel even less in control of what was happening to them . |
| 4 | However , with fewer breaks pilots tend to take it for granted that they will not get a cable break , and this makes them more vulnerable when one does occur . |
| 5 | People who are used to having responsible jobs at home or in the office and who are known to be good managers and organizers can not understand why suddenly the simplest task seems to be beyond them , and this makes them feel out of control and very unsafe . |
| 6 | As pellets are not normally susceptible to early leaching , only intergranular pores are present in the pelletoidal grainstones and this makes them less porous than the associated oolitic grainstones ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 7 | The bones gradually become thinner and more porous — that is , they have holes , and this makes them more likely to break . |
| 8 | The change has meant that fund managers have , as John Harrison says , ‘ begun to realise that charities with their gross funds are rather like pension funds : they have an institutional nature with trustees involved and this makes them a fund management proposition ’ . |
| 9 | And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’ |
| 10 | After a certain stage , children become able to use a greater variety of linguistic devices to express certain sorts of clausal relations and this makes them less reliant on dependent-clause structures . |
| 11 | If this makes them pause , even briefly , it may be just enough for the prey to escape . |
| 12 | Beds or borders of a width such that the centre is at arms " length from any point on the edge will be easier to maintain , but if this makes them too narrow for your choice , stepping-stones in the border make life a lot easier and incidentally add to the border " s appearance . |
| 13 | He believed that women are to be adored for their naturalness , but because this makes them vulnerable and subject to extremes of temperament , they should also be under the control of their husbands . |
| 14 | To what extent they are affected , and whether this makes them dependent upon forces that are beyond their control in the way they exercise their discretion , as opposed to being ‘ free agents ’ and therefore capable of choosing to follow a different policy in the light of changing circumstances , is the subject of this section . |