Example sentences of "that make [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We talked about how Morris Marinas make the wrong noises , Fiat Stradas make the right noises and Triumph Heralds that make no noise at all because the big end is buggered .
2 The most terrifying ants of all are those that make no nest but wander through the countryside seeking prey .
3 There are schools that have extensive stage and lighting equipment that make no use of drama in the curriculum .
4 As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg .
5 It is not only that the social range of fiction becomes much more inclusive , allowing the writer to explore interiors that make no claim to architecture , but that living space itself develops individual character .
6 Perhaps , too , such inner quietness underlies the legends concerning herbs that make a person ‘ invisible ’ .
7 It means that the reason there seems to be an association between low social support and vulnerability to neurosis is because the same attributes of personality that make a person vulnerable to depression also make a person see their friends and relatives as unhelpful , whether or not they are around and available to help .
8 There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down .
9 You 've asked us a lot about what Governors can do and what Councillors can do , it 's teachers that make a school and schools are going to be excellent if the teachers and heads of faculty in those schools are excellent , and we 've got lots of those in Banbury .
10 THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE A HOME
11 Given that there is a living to be made at night , and given that alternative daytime trades are thoroughly occupied , natural selection has favoured bats that make a go of the night-hunting trade .
12 ‘ Those that bring the inventor wealth and fame , and those that make a fortune for someone else , ’ he says .
13 With plentiful food and drink at Christmas , it 's the finishing touches that make a meal memorable — such as a superior cup of coffee at its conclusion .
14 There are , of course , invisible aspects that make a warren , or at least a section of it , impossible .
15 The children learned how to do all the jobs that make a shop work .
16 Problems may still remain , but so also does a landscape and people that make a visit something to savour .
17 You dress casually , you do n't care about all the things that make a city tick — finance , politics , big business — and when you 're working , you live in a makebelieve world most of the time . ’
18 Ends of branches that make a connection directly into manholes are called gullies , and these are all fitted with ‘ U ’ or ‘ S ’ traps to form a water seal .
19 And Hilary had dash , and style , and good looks — all the usual things that make a schoolboy hero .
20 Innovative thinking , intelligent risk taking , commitment to quality and customer service — in short , all the things that make a business successful — can not happen without a talented and dedicated workforce .
21 Cash only contributed one song to the second Highwaymen album , Highwayman 2 , a number called Songs that Make a Difference .
22 Details that make a difference
23 ‘ Our research so far suggests there are factors other than social deprivation and lifestyle that make a difference .
24 Posi moved at speeds that make a neutrino seem like a Habectric salt-snail .
25 Companies certainly try to control demand , to channel it in known directions , but they are never sure of their market ; the best they can do is to offer a ‘ cultural repertoire ’ , to cover a spread of the likely possibilities in order to minimize the risk — and it is this which accounts for the colossal overproduction of records and the large number that make a loss ( see Laing 1985 : 9–10 , 20 ; Frith 1983a : 92–102 ; Denisoff 1975 : 92–4 ) .
26 I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old .
27 But the very things that make the hay rich are the things that now make it poor .
28 The plain fact is that the feeble PC beep , usually allied to a tiny ( and tinny ) speaker is the laughing stock of the computer world — almost every other type of computer has sound capabilities that make the PC more to be pitied than laughed at .
29 It may look to some extent like the original , it may even retain traces of the original , but the many pieces that make the whole were added at different times and have been the subject of change and much repair work .
30 This is where Sanchez transforms Boys II Men hits with a precise ragga clip and Buju Banton raps of the ‘ Bogle Dance ’ for girls in clothes that make the word ‘ skimpy ’ seem overdressed .
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