Example sentences of "that make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture . |
| 2 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 3 | Yes means a time for us to be together , us and only us in a place that is beautiful and special and quiet and does n't know just how amazing a love is about to transform it into one of those Indian summer memories that make deaf old ladies grin knowingly , when you think they are dead in a deckchair on the sea front . |
| 4 | Disguise your steps with feints that make the opponent blink , or which divert his attention elsewhere . |
| 5 | D.R. Walker 's stark caricature of the Prime Minister exemplifies those pieces that make use of line rather than grain . |
| 6 | Then , of course , there 'll be the regular pages of advice , news , tests , correspondence and competitions that make ‘ Woodworker ’ Britain 's quality woodwork magazine . |
| 7 | This combination of speed and close attention may have a lot to do with the narrative thrust and atmospheric coherence and intensity that make this the most gripping of his novels . |
| 8 | It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals . |
| 9 | Certainly we need road space for those who must drive , but there are many drivers who would willingly change ( or revert ) to public transport given some inducement — like services that are more frequent , more reliable and more widely available , or a further disincentive to the scandal of non-essential company cars that make commuting free of charge to their users . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Football now has Bob Wilson of Arsenal and Emlyn Hughes of Liverpool and on independent television there is Ian StJohn and Jimmy Greaves ( ‘ The Saint and Greavsie ’ ) , who have taken the art of televised sport a step further by reproducing in the studio all the mixture of jokes and outlandish memories , bets , hunches , tactical shrewdness , and affectionate ‘ piss-taking ’ that make up a friendly hour in the pub . |
| 12 | ‘ Charlie was one of the sort that make a little go a long way . |
| 13 | It 's people really , that make things difficult . |
| 14 | Even so , they are uncomfortable and unpleasantly damp and dark , and the need for artificial lighting and heating can produce fumes that make the situation inconvenient . |
| 15 | Evidence that the SCN are the body clock can be summarized as follow : ( 1 ) Rhythmic electrical activity can be recorded from the nerve cells that make up the SCN and this rhythm has a period of about 24 hours . |
| 16 | At 0300 hours on 30 June 1989 , 1st Battalion the Royal Scots found itself deployed into hides , along with the attached tanks , artillery and engineers that make up the Royal Scots battle group . |
| 17 | However , 30 June 1989 saw the Battalion deployed on its biennial AMF(L) exercise to Denmark , hard at work alongside the other armies that make up the AMF(L) . |
| 18 | His are the kind , I must suppose , that make men rich and nations prosperous . |
| 19 | What we share , the captain and us , is mastery of time — the freedom to order our day in ways that make better use of it . |
| 20 | It is the use of dessert fruit and the hint of lemon that make this apple pudding so good . |
| 21 | I always fear for the fingers of the Portuguese works who feed these strips through the punching machines that make the corks , deftly guiding faults in the strip away from the cutter . |
| 22 | Are there physical or temperamental differences that make men better drivers , or vice versa ? |
| 23 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 24 | Classic styles in mouthwatering colours are the ingredients that make up Great Plains — a new range from French Connection . |
| 25 | What is the use of going to open beaches when we must return to segregated residential areas and schools and suffer under the laws that make the best medical treatment the prerogative of the whites only in our country ? |
| 26 | Smack-a-Mac ! , from the prosaically entitled Computer Accessories That Make Fun , San Diego , is a miniature smiling toy Mac filled with soft padding . |
| 27 | The first is usually ignored and forgotten : it consists of farmers and peasants who live miles from anywhere in the largely inaccessible tangle of mountain and forest that make up much of the land area of the eastern end of the Central American isthmus . |
| 28 | Nor is it just the lawns and bungalows and supermarkets of what was once the Canal Zone that make up the fabric of a colonialism with which several European countries have been historically familiar . |
| 29 | These are the four countries that make up contemporary Panama . |
| 30 | Solid beech lined drawers that run on easy glide telescopic roller slides , thick ( 18mm ) easy-to-maintain side panels and base shelves , 40mm thick work surfaces , spring loaded hinges which close at a touch , and cabinets that stand on their own ( individually adjustable ) four feet to ensure absolute stability on even the most uneven floors , are just some of the standard features that make Wilson & Glick Kitchens one of the most successful companies in the UK since its formation in 1987 . |