Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] that makes [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 3 | Maybe it is just the cold air that makes him sound that way . |
| 4 | Words that will express something of the deep complexity that makes us precisely the way we are , from the momentary effect of the barometer to the force that created men distinct from trees . |
| 5 | If you 're striving to write a great novel or to invent a piece of computer software , the very shyness that makes you avoid social events may allow you more time and motivation to pursue your solitary goals . |
| 6 | It is the darkness , not the thickness , of the ruled lines that makes it helpful as a guide for writing . |
| 7 | But Christianity is the only religion that makes it clear that only one god exists . |
| 8 | It 's the only thing that makes me proud about that country . |
| 9 | The only thing that makes me doubt that is that the general proposition underlying it appears to have received some incoherent support from the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 10 | The only thing that makes it wrong in my view is that you do n't love him . ’ |
| 11 | The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute … |
| 12 | the only thing that makes you conscious of what 's going on is your brain and that anyway |
| 13 | There 's something about the Western Loire that makes you want to savour every moment . |
| 14 | The child will discover from experience whether the sword glows in the presence of evil , does extra damage to the undead , or perhaps is a cursed sword that makes it easier for monsters to find and wound Samson . ) |
| 15 | ‘ Well , if I 'm a peeping Tom that makes us about even , would n't you say ? ’ |
| 16 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 17 | I have a folding mac that makes me look like a haystack in the rain , I have an umbrella that would fit most of Dublin under it . ’ |
| 18 | When the sun rises they shine with a brilliant light that makes it impossible to keep one 's eyes fixed upon it . |
| 19 | The least woodpecker-like woodpecker of the region , with a longish tail that makes it more like a small brown shrike or a large warbler . |
| 20 | ‘ As a team manager , Mr Chapman has been strikingly successful , and he unites with his keen business abilities a winning personality that makes him very popular . |
| 21 | In this kind of house , in this kind of street , they soon collect a grey film that makes them all look much the same . |
| 22 | For example , Ami Pro has a charting module that makes it very easy to include graphs in your documents . |
| 23 | I 'm about to sign a new contract that makes me virtually a Santa Barbara resident , and we locals do n't mix with you tourists ! ’ |
| 24 | They have a whole scene that makes it seem possible to write songs all the time and really , really enjoy it . ’ |
| 25 | Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that Salmonella typhimurium , a bacterium that causes diarrhoea , survives for much longer than three weeks , but in a dormant state that makes it much more difficult to detect . |
| 26 | The taste of Guinness produces a fleeting dryness that makes it a most agreeable way to put an edge on an appetite . |
| 27 | He said ‘ You do n't look well , ’ to her once , meaning to be sympathetic , but she clouted him and said , ‘ It is living with an old man that makes me not well . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't suppose anybody does , at first , unless the painting is an airbrushed portrait that makes them look perfect . |
| 29 | Even J F Sebastian ( William Sanderson ) , a genetic designer of the replicants , suffers from an unspecified disease that makes him prematurely aged ( the postnuclear elements of the novel are eliminated in the screenplay ) . |