Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun pl] that make " in BNC.
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| 1 | But arguments of this nature , often plausible and just as often highly speculative , give some indication of the enduring characteristics of elite arguments that make such arguments readily comprehensible , and convincing in a synthetic manner , but lacking either the pretensions to analytic rigour of behaviouristic pluralism or the steam-roller systematic explanations of Marxism . |
| 2 | The essential property of carbon atoms that makes them so suitable for life and for industrial synthetics , is that they join together to form a limitless repertoire of different kinds of very large molecules . |
| 3 | But there are a number of crime novels that make use of the immediate past to excellent effect ( Gladys Mitchell 's Late , Late in the Evening is one ) , and if the root causes of today 's events are something that set your imagination bubbling then perhaps this is the sort of book you would be best to write . |
| 4 | The studies on which these theories are based , incidentally , have involved the use of test procedures that make it possible to assess the relative contribution of the two hemispheres to psychological performance , usually on tasks that demand the processing of linguistic information . |
| 5 | Harvard Graphics Windows is one of the latest generation of presentation packages that make it easy for anybody to produce a stylish and professional looking presentation suitable for any type of audience . |
| 6 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |