Example sentences of "[be] make [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It also presents the most difficult problem for those who , like myself , are convinced on practical grounds that a sufficient case can not be made out for the restoration of capital punishment . |
2 | It is sobering to reflect that a case could be made out for the judgment that the last extensive exercise of the English poetic sensibility was Wordsworth 's Prelude . ’ |
3 | A case can be made out for the 1918 election as a Unionist victory rather than a coalition victory . |
4 | However , it is necessary to consider this in a little more detail , for it might be argued that a rather better case could be made out for the materialist theory than the dismissive remarks of the preceding section seem to suggest , provided certain additional facts are taken into consideration . |
5 | But there was no defence to be made out for the people she 'd met today . |