Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] that make [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steven continues : ‘ There 's a complete balancing out of all the different musical influences which enables us to write songs that make us sound like no-one else . |
| 2 | While there are many circumstances in which that is true , it seems important to acknowledge that the political system contains biases that make it much easier for some groups to secure influence than others . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , Dr Mowery and Dr Teece have varied sources that make their picture of Japan convincing . |
| 4 | Some of the culture-based arguments clearly have political ingredients , but one strictly political argument , or rather political-system argument , is equally applicable to any new political movement ( whether left , right or centrist ) seeking long-term viability — that the British first-past-the-post electoral system has features that make it extremely difficult for a new party to ‘ break through ’ . |
| 5 | And sometimes , when there were visitors and raksi to drink , he 'd get the red bitch to sing — a mournful , wailing dirge that made us fall about with laughter . |
| 6 | of old exploding suns that makes you feel |
| 7 | And something else — a strange , almost seeking touch that made her tremble inside . |
| 8 | Owls ' eyesight is good in dim light but not so good in total darkness ; it is their acute hearing and the accuracy with which they can pinpoint sounds that make them such successful hunters . |
| 9 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 10 | The fear is that indiscriminate Bt spraying and widespread use of genetically transformed crops that make their own Bt toxin will reduce the product 's effectiveness and accelerate the spread of resistant strains . |
| 11 | And once you make the joke , and I always tell jokes that make them laugh . |
| 12 | The insects , however , cover it with a protein called sclerotin that makes it become very hard . |
| 13 | I do n't see the point of doing things that make it sound completely unlike a guitar . |
| 14 | There , on its otherwise camouflaged skin , appears a pair of huge staring eye-spots that make its rear view look remarkably like the face of a predatory bird . |
| 15 | ‘ Is it the thought of losing Susie that makes you desperate ? ’ |
| 16 | We can learn to develop our personal power through identifying the resistance we have to using certain types of behaviour and learning skills that make us more adaptable . |
| 17 | This formula can help you express messages that make you feel uncomfortable . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's partly the fact that she is young and does n't have a completely formed personality that makes her interesting . |
| 19 | Most other weapons can not be considered to have characteristics that make their use illegal whatever the circumstances ; although some others perhaps do — for example , bacteriological weapons , which can equally be argued to be per se illegal . |
| 20 | It is just that the world automatically tends to become full of those varieties of clay ( or DNA ) that happen to have properties that make them persist and spread themselves about . |
| 21 | Two of the three ‘ motives ’ outlined above are of special importance to the study of implementation , since the removal of some aspects of policy making from direct political influence and deference to special interests both introduce complications that make it particularly difficult to distinguish policy making from implementation . |
| 22 | There was something in the quality of his quiet , confiding tone that made her feel there was an intimacy between them . |
| 23 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 24 | I was too young to exercise my intellectual force to demolish prejudices that made me sick . |
| 25 | Along with behaviour rites such as shaking hands , kissing , taking and giving of coats and getting drinks , they form rituals that make our meetings and partings easier . |
| 26 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 27 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 28 | She relied a good deal on Lessing , whom she disliked but who had qualities that made him useful to her ; he was able to work out salaries , including those of his cousins in the Hampstead house , the expenses of running the theatre , lighting , heating , cleaning . |
| 29 | She often did things and said things that made him feel loved . |
| 30 | Like word processors , however , it 's not so much what a spreadsheet can do in common with others , but what it does that others ca n't , and how it does things that make one stand out from another . |