Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] makes it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We also now have a technique that makes it possible to control the production of female ova — egg cells . |
| 2 | WHAT is that special quality in a wine that makes it an award winner ? |
| 3 | Firstly , they bind a piece of writing together as a single entity , giving it a connectedness that makes it read as a whole rather than as a string of separate jottings . |
| 4 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 5 | The Preface fetches information from other ages and brings it forward , and hands it to us , cleansed and ready for consumption , and presented in a style that makes it clear Johnson wished to be read . |
| 6 | That is why it is so vitally important that legislation should be expressed in language that can be clearly understood and why it should be in a form that makes it readily accessible . |
| 7 | He is tempted to reinterpret the past in a way that makes it fit in more readily with the rendezvous at the small hotel . |
| 8 | They tell it in a way that makes it make sense . |
| 9 | Instead of a glance , which is always acceptable , they keep staring at the animal in a way that makes it feel uncomfortable . |
| 10 | For these reasons , it is possible to hope that the House of Lords might , if called upon to do so , reconsider the decision in a way that makes it plain that the right to freedom of speech in public is not wholly dependent upon the discretion of the policeman on the spot — important though that will undoubtedly always be — but is guided by rules and principles that recognise , inter alia the importance of freedom of speech in public , and the fact that the person interfered with was going about his otherwise lawful business . |
| 11 | A major weakness , however , is that this element is fitted only roughly into the discussion , in a way that makes it difficult to integrate the dynamic with the static features of the analysis . |
| 12 | The latter falls off more rapidly , indicating that the turbulence changes in a way that makes it relatively less efficient as a heat transfer mechanism than as a momentum transfer mechanism . |
| 13 | The tendency for L to find its own maximum value leads to interesting developments if the initial density distribution is set up in a way that makes it initially larger than this maximum . |
| 14 | erm I think in terms of techniques is is is a level of awareness really , to be able to respond to children erm with their curiosity and with their erm expressions of anxiety erm in a way that makes it all right for them to be feeling the way they are , and I do n't think it 's simple as just saying a technique , I think it 's what we can offer as adults comes from an inner awareness that we have as adults , that we can convey to our children , because it 's not just the techniques , or the behaviour , or the words that we use , but it 's those feelings behind the words . |