Example sentences of "something that makes " in BNC.

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1 Thus Akhsharumov directs the reader to something that makes him certain he holds a masterpiece in his hands before he has read half a dozen pages : a single pre-natal life , a foetal stirring and growth , no ordinary robust narrative sense of something afoot .
2 From the rosebud doubles to the richly coloured , eyeless cowichans hybrids and dainty , dark-leaved ‘ Garryarde ’ , they all have something that makes them irresistible .
3 But , over the past few months , I have been investigating something that makes such abstractions far more impressive .
4 ‘ The principle is that once we find we can do something that makes us feel good , we repeat it , ’ he explains .
5 It 's not something that makes me anxious at all .
6 I like a bit of subversion — something that makes waves — although artists always smooth out in the end . ’
7 If there 's something in our music that someone can identify with in some way , something that makes their life easier …
8 All good negotiators have a checklist , something that makes sure they cover all the points in the best possible way .
9 It is the kind of judgement that Hunt had in generous portions , and something that makes him , even today , a capable judge of the more refined points of racing on television .
10 It has to be something that makes your mouth drop open . ’
11 Emily Dickenson defined writing that works as ‘ something that makes me feel as though the top of my head is coming off ’ .
12 Oracle Corp 's Larry Ellison claimed that HP was the only company to offer credible , fully-compatible systems at both client and server levels , something that makes the implementation of client-server software a whole lot easier , he said .
13 Why should we succumb to something that makes us lose our logic and turns our brains to marshmallow ?
14 If you did have a list it one of the list B B C English or Queen 's English or something that makes people know what they w what you 're trying to tell them .
15 Sometimes I look at the other women , see one with a baby on her knee , then a little child runs up and tells her something that makes her laugh …
16 In contrast to the old familiar setting , Alison says this is an exciting new venture for her : ‘ It is being in at the start of something that makes it so interesting .
17 something that makes sense to carry on
18 I do n't know , I do n't what it is , er , the , whether it 's the hills or the water , but er , there 's something , there 's something that makes wonderful singers out of them .
19 or sorry it sends a signal to the adrenal glands which sit on the top of the kidneys yeah , and pumps adrenalin into the blood which again is something that makes you ready and that 's what all these things about about a dry throat a wonky voice a shaking limbs is all about a very primitive instinct of fight or flight .
20 She wo n't be as damaged by you dashing her dream as you could be by continuing with something that makes you ill .
21 ‘ The longevity of these two companies is something that makes us special , ’ says Anderson .
22 I would call it general purchasing , something that makes sense to everybody .
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