Example sentences of "thing [conj] make [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
| 2 | THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE A HOME |
| 3 | And Hilary had dash , and style , and good looks — all the usual things that make a schoolboy hero . |
| 4 | You dress casually , you do n't care about all the things that make a city tick — finance , politics , big business — and when you 're working , you live in a makebelieve world most of the time . ’ |
| 5 | Innovative thinking , intelligent risk taking , commitment to quality and customer service — in short , all the things that make a business successful — can not happen without a talented and dedicated workforce . |
| 6 | But the very things that make the hay rich are the things that now make it poor . |
| 7 | It 's precisely those things that make the pain so … never mind . |
| 8 | And , as always , it 's the little things that make the difference . |
| 9 | And these are all things that made the Co-op so personal did n't they really . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes … but it 's the balance of those things that makes a man what he is , would n't you say , Tsu Ma ? ’ |
| 11 | If it 's true , as is often suggested , that there are no new stories , then one of the things that makes a piece of drama original is the angle — or the frame . |
| 12 | The fossil record is full of curious plants that do not fit comfortably into classifications — this is one of the things that makes the study of fossil plants so fascinating . |
| 13 | This is one of the things that makes the book so long . |
| 14 | Now I 'm going to pull down a whole pile of these things and make a nest out of them so we 'll be warm and cosy until we 're rescued from each other . ’ |
| 15 | The male babies were encouraged to explore , to bang things and make a lot of noise and generally be more active . |
| 16 | I had to find it , going through her things and making a record as her grand London Lawyer instructed me ! ’ |
| 17 | And yet this is the kind of thing that made a fortune for Dr Tarnower and is , in its way , replicated in all diet books : this mixture of ruthlessness , optimism and fatuity . |
| 18 | The thing that made the turning point happened just as we were leaving . |
| 19 | ‘ She felt the only thing that made the company work was good design and hard work , nothing else . |
| 20 | Perhaps the only thing that makes a day of interviews bearable is the narcissistic pleasure of talking about yourself . |
| 21 | Someone who thought there must be one thing that makes the difference might say it was an impression of familiarity . |
| 22 | Well , really , how to make a cup of tea is like the same thing as making a cup of coffee first you have to take the kettle to the tap , turn the tap on and fill up the kettle , then take the kettle back to the ma , erm , where you got it from and plug it into the wa wall . |