Example sentences of "is [conj] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 2 | Edward 's only extant will is that made before the French expedition of 1475 , and on internal evidence it had been modified , if not superseded , by 1483 . |
| 3 | On this view the only reservation that is relevant is that made by the State whose law is applicable to the transaction , and reservations made by the State in which the forum is located have no significance as such and operate only if the conflict rules of that State lead to the application of its own law . |
| 4 | now got to trying to decide is that made in England , or was it made in Germany or . |
| 5 | Edward 's only extant will is that made before the French expedition of 1475 , and on internal evidence it had been modified , if not superseded , by 1483 . |
| 6 | The only proposition with which they could be eliciting an agreement is that made by A : but it does not make sense for B to elicit an agreement with A's proposition . |
| 7 | An important distinction is that made between retail and wholesale deposits and loans . |
| 8 | A famous early umbrella is that made by Robinson Crusoe . |
| 9 | Part of the problem is that making corners with radii suitable for service vehicles such as fire engines also makes them wide enough for cars to travel through quickly ( Figure 4.8 ) . |
| 10 | One indication of current priorities is that Making Belfast Work has less money committed to it in total over four years than is spent on prisons in a single year . |
| 11 | But the point is that making profits for shareholders must now be seen as a mechanism for promoting the public interest , and not as an end in itself . |
| 12 | Whatever the answer to this may be , the general policy conclusion that can be drawn is that making access and use of medical services more equitable will reduce certain aspects of class inequalities in morbidity and mortality but will not do away with them or reduce them substantially . |
| 13 | The simple fact is that making the prehistoric — that is , the repressed — part of the mind conscious is a vital aspect of the further development of the ego because conscious insight into itself and its motivation is essential to the ego 's rationality and competence in administering and mastering the instinctual drives of the id . |
| 14 | Think , too , about the circumstances under which you can not keep to your resolves , and analyse exactly what it is that makes you behave the way you do . |
| 15 | A recent investigation of moorhens is one of the first studies to show exactly what it is that makes for a high quality mate ( Science , vol 220 , p 413 ) . |
| 16 | They have taken a long hard look at the way Japanese firms operate and tried to understand what it is that makes them so much more productive and successful . |
| 17 | It is not at all easy to see what it is that makes one thing tough and another brittle because the substances in each of these lists seem to have little enough in common . |
| 18 | Examine all the humour you come across — in shops , at work , with children , on the TV — and try to ascertain what it is that makes something funny for you . |
| 19 | His final reflection was that ‘ such a picture can not be defined at all until we find a way of describing whatever it is that makes first-rate entertainment what it is ’ . |
| 20 | Aristotle 's argument concerns the question of what it is that makes an action ‘ voluntary ’ , done of a person 's own free will , and in order to answer this question , he distinguished between actions whose origin was ‘ inside ’ a person , and those whose origin was ‘ outside ’ , which resulted from external influences or pressure or compulsion . |
| 21 | In fact , this means that our answer will amount to an account of what it is for a non-observation statement to be significant , and what it is that makes one such statement mean something different from what another one means . |
| 22 | The fact that meaning is not constructed from the formal language of the message alone is crucial in explaining what it is that makes people perceive some stretches of language as coherent discourse and others as disconnected jumbles . |
| 23 | ‘ Being around you for any length of time , I 'd sooner know what it is that makes you tick . |
| 24 | I had assumed that it meant the characteristic of being alive , livingness , whatever it is that makes life life . |
| 25 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 26 | With more than 130 successful wines to choose from , it would be a very pleasant experience indeed just trying to find out what it is that makes a good wine a winner , observed one Winemark spokesman . |
| 27 | IT 'S the Echo 's Fun Fortnight and today we examine exactly what it is that makes you smile , laugh and be happy ! by Philippa Bellis |
| 28 | Yes , so what act , so do you know Mark what it is that makes these people think those things ? |
| 29 | Very often an approach to a Commission official will be more effective if it is ‘ pan-EC ’ , that is if made by a number of companies operating throughout the EC , preferably under an EC umbrella organisation . |
| 30 | It is much better if the player knows subconsciously all the time where the clubhead is and makes sure that it gets to the ball at the same moment as the hands — a similar position as when at address . |