Example sentences of "what made " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had to understand and project what made your character tick . |
| 2 | Part of this culture was a certain distinction between what made up the sacred and what made up the profane spheres . |
| 3 | Part of this culture was a certain distinction between what made up the sacred and what made up the profane spheres . |
| 4 | What made the ruling even more surprising was that the Japanese government had pledged to correct bias in school textbooks after South Korea and China lodged diplomatic protests in 1982 , when the book was originally banned . |
| 5 | What made it more extraordinary was that everything had conspired against them , from the Home Unions committee 's refusal to grant them official Lions status right through to the kick-off . |
| 6 | What made it more significant was that over 7,000 Sheffield fans were following us . ’ |
| 7 | What made the pre-1960 period distinctive , however , was the almost complete reliance on this one objective . |
| 8 | This vision , what Eliot called Kipling 's knowledge ‘ of the things which are underneath , and of the things which are beyond the frontier , , was what made some of Kipling 's short stories so important to the writer of The Waste Land . |
| 9 | So what made us persist with John ? |
| 10 | He confided to Phoebe that what made him sad was his garden . |
| 11 | I learned a great deal during that formative period about what made people tick and one saw what life was really like . |
| 12 | This is what made Marx so different from his socialist contemporaries . |
| 13 | For a long time I never realised how badly paid and overworked I was , but what made me feel bad in those days was the rudeness and lack of respect with which I and other Asian women were treated by the supervisors . |
| 14 | In the last attempt , in 1975 , what made unionisation especially difficult was that , although most of the workers were then Asians , they spoke different languages . |
| 15 | What made your husband swerve , Mrs. Fanshawe ? ’ |
| 16 | What made it so enchanting was the setting . |
| 17 | Rank 's ambitions in the US were dependent on the company 's films all being of a certain quality , but there was an insufficient understanding of what made a production unit like Ealing work , and the model was not copied elsewhere . |
| 18 | Instead we think about what made them . ’ |
| 19 | Professor Geoffrey Codd of Dundee University said an in depth study of the algae and what made them produce toxins was needed . |
| 20 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 21 | That 's what made all the craziness of Tony 's orchestrations work . |
| 22 | What made Nate and the executive committee think that guys like Klepner and Mueller knew more about the European components ’ business than the Europeans ? |
| 23 | What made you want to crawl in with them mucky birds like that ? |
| 24 | ‘ What made you want to go this time , then ? ’ |
| 25 | What made Hiss significant was his impeccable background , his WASP family , his Harvard Law School education , his career on President Roosevelt 's wartime staff and then in the State Department Far Eastern section , his acquaintance with Dean Acheson , Adlai Stevenson and John Foster Dulles . |
| 26 | He felt bold enough to ask her : ‘ What made you run out of Mr Zamoyski 's ? ’ |
| 27 | What made the result so glorious was that it epitomized the essence of steeplechasing : at its most prestigious moment the sport had returned to its rural roots and shown that the humblest contestants can win the biggest prizes . |
| 28 | For centuries they were ‘ consecrated ’ by the first celebration in them of the eucharist : what made them holy was the use made of them . |
| 29 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 30 | ‘ What made me develop her along masochistic lines ? |