Example sentences of "[conj] which make " in BNC.

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1 Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies .
2 And of course nowadays there 's so much er things that er we use , there are so much labour saving things now that which makes a big difference .
3 Yet the Empire which the British Navy defended , and which made Britain an Asiatic power , or a world power , or indeed a power at all , was not the few million kith and kin living in North America or in Australasia or mingling with the Dutch in South Africa .
4 In its asides — quite apart from what he tells us about Milton — we see what it was about Lewis which struck W. T. Kirkpatrick as so remarkable , and which made him such a valued teacher and friend to so many people in the course of his life .
5 With his precision of line , careful musicality and swift little steps close to the ground , Shaw , in ballets like Les Rendezvous , embodied everything that was best about Ashton 's choreography and which made the Royal Ballet unique .
6 It was a tribute to that engineering genius which made Britain the foremost industrial power in the world and which made engineers chiefs in the pantheon of heroes of the new industrial age , celebrated in works like Samuel Smiles 's Lives of the Engineers .
7 A serious blow , of course , was also dealt to the reputation of the Labour Party , which controlled many of the councils with the greatest needs and which made the heaviest demands on the public purse , and whose members were least apologetic about doing so .
8 Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon .
9 It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding .
10 Theresa Nolan , after having a medical termination on psychiatric grounds , had left a suicide note for her grandparents which they had confirmed was in her handwriting and which made her intention to kill herself plain beyond any doubt .
11 His voyage is based on similar ones which , he believes , were carried out by Chinese in the third century BC , and which made possible the great civilisations of Central and South America .
12 Moreover he omits , virtually without mention , the extraordinary improvements made in English industrial life , and elsewhere , in the second half of the nineteenth century and which made many of these towns what they are today .
13 It was not therefore unexpected that the Thatcher government introduced legislation which reduced the amount of supplementary benefit payable to strikers and which made their trade union responsible for paying a higher amount of strike pay .
14 All the pitches were lined with trees under which spectators could sit and which made splendid spots for picnics when no game was going on .
15 And the chairs were sprayed and which made them which made things a lot cheaper .
16 He spoke with the gentle cruelty he could show towards his models and which made some of them call him Charley the Knife .
17 Basalts are the rocks which are formed at mid-ocean ridges , and which make up the entire oceanic crust .
18 Once this is accepted we can seek out the logical consistencies in contextual use which constitute ‘ structural principles ’ and which make sense of otherwise apparently baffling practices and beliefs .
19 For Canguilhem the history of a concept will have its own specific temporality , demonstrating less a process of epistemological self-correction as in the pure sciences than the persistence of the problem within all the contradictory solutions and ideological values that have been given to it and which make up its history .
20 They are accustomed to presentations that are professionally , even slickly , performed , and which make the average class lesson seem amateur , especially in the use of communication aids such as graphics , film clips and animated cartoons .
21 Instead of self-confident assertions whose utterance actually enacts the superiority that is claimed , and which make it possible to identify with ‘ the master race ’ , as being and having everything that the subject races lack , we have discourses which resort to all manner of rhetorical devices to construct a narrative of special pleading marked by highly ambiguous and ironic self-reference and a litany of real or imagined grievance .
22 They have stories that need telling as opposed to a plot that most of us have never heard before and which make us feel uncomfortable .
23 The features which characterize UDC and which make it appropriate for the applications discussed above are :
24 Another function of the Committee is its responsibility for the overall supervision of the so-called " collections " of pools of biotechnology materials , which are held at a number of research stations , and which make genetic material available to research workers in other institutions .
25 In short , the phylogenetic basis of the id seems most definitely to be a set of basically egoistic and anti-social sexual and aggressive drives which cause all men to see each other as sexual rivals and which make sons desire the death of their fathers for possession of the mother and sisters .
26 It 's important for the foreign traveller to accumulate lots of useless gadgetry and ephemera that they 'd never dream of buying normally , and which makes the whole process of travelling so much more cumbersome and awkward for others .
27 Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening .
28 And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ?
29 All I will permit myself to say is that there clearly exists a coherent body of thought within the present Conservative parliamentary Party ( supported , it would seem from the number of signatures added to the ‘ Fresh Start ’ petition circulated at the 1992 Conservative Party Conference , by a large number of members in the country ) , which is increasingly concerned by the direction of events in Europe and which makes the connection between this and Britain 's recent economic woes .
30 The Beta release of presentations has come with a quite large amount of pre-drawn template material , which will be included with the final release , and which makes actually forming a presentation very simple .
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