Example sentences of "that makes [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news that makes every Italian heart sing , the news that liberty and freedom are abroad once more and this time we shall not fail ! ’ |
| 2 | What is it about vacuum flasks that makes every drink taste like there 's a chunk of dead mouse at the bottom ? |
| 3 | The quality of a line , hard or soft , lost and found , can be merely recording the random movement of , say , a pencil point that makes no conscious claim upon area . |
| 4 | As a sharp contrast , the Beethoven Septet is pure entertainment , music that makes no attempt to grapple with more complex emotional issues . |
| 5 | What is surprising is that their refusal to read black texts — a refusal that makes no disturbance in their intellectual life — repeats itself when they reread the traditional , established works of literature worthy of their attention . |
| 6 | The circulating system wanders a little closer , deepens , is classified under a new title — a moderate tropical storm — and is given a name , Agnes perhaps , or Bob , an innocent , unassuming , rather cosy , old-fashioned sort of name that makes no connection in anybody 's mind with a swirling mass of warm air and piled clouds that is bearing down on the coast , thunder and lightning flickering from its belly , the waves beneath it being whipped up into a fury . |
| 7 | Must not all such thinking souls be growing hideously weary with this long contention that makes no progress , that wastes men and harvests and the very wellbeing of the land ? |
| 8 | The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demand for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity : it affords protection to all beings , offering shade even to the axeman who destroys it . |
| 9 | He says he 's got loss of memory , without a stroke , I have that as well , so that makes no difference . |
| 10 | In my mind it 's common sense that makes a good policeman , not education . |
| 11 | Twenty years old , the Range Rover is still the only serious off-roader that makes a convincing alternative to a luxury saloon . |
| 12 | Lavish them with real custard , cream or a jam sauce that is generously jammy — and do n't forget that Christmas Plum Pud is n't the only pudding that makes a grand entrance wreathed in alcoholic flames . |
| 13 | I like to wake up to a cup of Assam , a very robust tea , or a strong blend of African and Indian teas of the type that makes a good English breakfast blend ; in the evening I prefer to drink Keemun or Lapsang Souchong . |
| 14 | ‘ It being the same consciousness that makes a man be himself to himself , personal identity depends on that only , whether it be annexed only to one individual substance , or can be continued in a succession of several substances . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps the only thing that makes a day of interviews bearable is the narcissistic pleasure of talking about yourself . |
| 16 | Yet more sweet scent came wafting from the generous drifts of white alyssum that softened the open areas of stone chippings in Cheshire Pink shade — a surface that makes a practical alternative to the conventional lawn and can be defined and contained by brick edging . |
| 17 | Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) . |
| 18 | Political behaviour is defined as behaviour by individuals , or , in collective terms , by sub-units , within an organisation that makes a claim against the resource sharing system of an organisation . |
| 19 | The church is Romanesque and approached along a tree-clad path that makes a very pleasant change from the more normal city approach — straight off the road . |
| 20 | TOM : But is n't there some physical quality that makes a tree a tree ? |
| 21 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 22 | Because of the sanctity of the self-management system , any enterprise that makes a direct investment in another enterprise ( through so-called ‘ pooling labour and resources ’ ) has no control over the activities of the recipient organization and can expect no return other than interest on its investment ( at a sharply negative rate ) . |
| 23 | In each text , the first two sentences set up a context that makes a different one of these two structures more plausible by allowing fully referential success only for that one structure . |
| 24 | In the season of goodwill it seems appropriate to contemplate a fungus that makes a good living out of parasitising insects ; but it is so mild-mannered that its hosts ( and most biologists ) are hardly aware of its existence |
| 25 | To report from the front , there is now a gadget that can be fitted to your refrigerator that makes a noise like a pig every time the door is opened . |
| 26 | The other plant that makes a visit to Bristol unforgettable is the wild fig ( Ficus carica ) . |
| 27 | This ‘ tycoon-failing ’ pattern is one of the factors that makes a more moderate pack-size a better prospect for power-hungry males . |
| 28 | In such cases each novice predator that makes a mistake becomes a corpse and learns nothing . |
| 29 | The language and the inner mind are part of a whole that makes a creature what it is . |
| 30 | The fuel card that makes a statement about you |