Example sentences of "that makes [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is hard to speak against a situation that makes everyone happy , but one has to say it represents a form of intellectual inflation that is just as pernicious in its way as monetary inflation . |
| 3 | The item that makes everyone tick at PE also lies within the former gunnery hall , but it has been receiving attention since its arrival — within the hold of a Safair L–100 Hercules . |
| 4 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |
| 5 | … The needlessness of imprinting such evident notions can not be argued from their present clearness ; because it is their being thus imprinted or thus connatural to our minds that makes them so . ’ |
| 6 | From the rosebud doubles to the richly coloured , eyeless cowichans hybrids and dainty , dark-leaved ‘ Garryarde ’ , they all have something that makes them irresistible . |
| 7 | It is , then , custom which persuades us of it ; it is custom that makes so many men Christians ; custom that makes them Turks , heathens , artisans , soldiers etc . |
| 8 | Study of evolving populations of ammonoids has produced very fine subdivisions of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks , and their only disadvantage , curiously enough , is the feature that makes them so attractive to collectors . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that the outflowing rivers provide the sand that makes them good beaches . |
| 10 | It is caused by a loss of calcium in the bones that makes them become softer , porous and weaker . |
| 11 | Most discordant twins had one or other antigen , Identical twins who are discordant for diabetes start out with the same susceptibility ; it is only the action of an environmental stimulus on one twin , and its absence on the other that makes them discordant . |
| 12 | What is it about the British that makes them confuse service with servility |
| 13 | The second type of explanation suggests that these people have some sort of defect that makes them less able to cope with environmental chemicals . |
| 14 | Anything that makes them different is likely to lead to teasing by other children . |
| 15 | This feeling is only likely to be reinforced by the realisation that the underlying technology used by most players — the set of chips that makes them tick — comes from a very limited number of sources . |
| 16 | There is a hidden subtle dimension to all creatures that makes them what they are , possessing the basic behavioural characteristics of their species . |
| 17 | Just remember that the invisible spiritual force that makes them work is evil and harmful , so leave them all well alone . |
| 18 | It 's based on the two fingered symbol of peace , and although it was originally designed for lead guitars I eventually scaled it up to use on my basses ; it 's one of the features that makes them instantly recognisable . ’ |
| 19 | And it is the freak subversive genius of this record that makes them the single most important rock band of our time . |
| 20 | Their feedback-drenched fog makes it almost impossible to discern anything resembling a tune , and each song coasts along for upwards of five minutes — but it 's precisely their avoidance of career-minded polish that makes them so invigorating . |
| 21 | Now it seems that makes them sympathetic to those who — quite literally — get away with murder . |
| 22 | The promotion has led to some shops selling out of £120 vacuum cleaners , and the Cambuslang , Strathclyde , factory that makes them has defied the recession by switching to seven-day working . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And you can even buy imitations of handmade bricks with all the individuality of texture that makes them so attractive to use , but they are pricy . |
| 25 | ‘ As for McClair … he 's a players ’ player , the one that makes them tick . ’ |
| 26 | It 's a fast-paced , illuminating and frequently hilarious show , but the portrait is left incomplete by the short shrift given to film of Fishbone onstage — surely the one place where their controlled chaos makes perfect sense — and a surprising lack of emphasis on the political apoplexy that makes them so fascinating . |
| 27 | It may not occur ; pupils may be resilient enough to deal with negative social encounters themselves , or may have the kind of personality that makes them unlikely to arise . |
| 28 | They are rendered with a reduced palette and a monumentality that makes them seem emblematic , but of what ? |
| 29 | This provokes awareness of and gives practice in those features of language which provide links within sentences or across sentence boundaries : the glue that makes them stick together . |
| 30 | But modern children have a lot of facts and it 's the interpretation of facts and feelings that makes them civilised . ’ |