Example sentences of "make [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doughmen could tell by the feel of the dough , and by the sound that it made during mixing , if it was too dry or too wet , and add small amounts of required ingredients to compensate . |
| 2 | Whatever keys are used , consonances between parts will make for euphony , while dissonances will form different degrees of harshness according to frequency of use and degree of conflict . |
| 3 | In spite of the attractions , Guide has not adopted this uniform approach , mainly because unifying rather different types of object does not make for simplicity . |
| 4 | Inflation in March falling from 4.1 p.c. to 4.0 p.c. , instead of to the expected 3.8 p.c. , could also make for caution , analysts believe . |
| 5 | Mr Maxwell said that his alterations — which he would make for publication in his newspapers — were to substitute the term ombudsman for readers ' representatives and to widen the clause in the code of practice which refers to non-payment of criminals to include those benefiting from a criminal act . |
| 6 | Affinity of conduct and values among this majority did not always make for unity . |
| 7 | Hoomey thought Nails would make for home , the mission accomplished , but he seemed disposed to come in Hoomey 's direction . |
| 8 | Then we could make for home , and you could meet Mother . ’ |
| 9 | What is more , by using a more polite or polysyllabic manner of discourse , you will be telling the client so ; as well as implying that you are a loftier being which does not make for rapport . |
| 10 | The first of these documents is likely to appear before any published part of the government 's review , and will amount to advice to government on what arrangements the government should make for R&D to best meet national needs Giving ACARD this job as a formal duty is a mark that the Council has established itself as a key body in reviewing and stimulating new industrial technologies . |
| 11 | Of course he had some other assets , but the collapse of the central part of his fortune did not make for buoyancy . |
| 12 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 13 | ‘ The only thing Susanna can make for dinner is a reservation ! ’ |
| 14 | No , happenstance will never make for beauty . |
| 15 | A limited number of periods of contrast will make for brevity ; adequate periods can lead to long themes . |
| 16 | This practice must make for speed and efficiency — and therefore economy — from the point of view of the consumer ( who ultimately pays the bill ) . |
| 17 | The slippage principle should make for enervation and a general whittling away . |
| 18 | What a good article that will make for Query and Maggie Howard ! ’ |
| 19 | This reciprocal position did not make for sincerity and real understanding . |
| 20 | What assumptions do they make about society ? |
| 21 | What distinction does the Minister make between education and training ? |
| 22 | And this distinction between an hour as sixty minutes and an hour as a section of complex human experience , is I suppose the distinction one would make between clock time and what might be called existential time , time as it 's humanly experienced . |
| 23 | Equations which Spenser made between religion , class , morality , and self-control ( especially in sexual matters ) as a register of civility or savagery , and ultimately of good or evil , may be found uncannily , certainly uncomfortably , circulating within our current social discourses . |
| 24 | The ‘ endless way of the last lines extends the travelling into a metaphor for the journey we make through life ( compare The Pilgrim 's Progress ) . |
| 25 | Because it was that point that erm David Berlow made about howthe Condensed Century was done , where he took the Torino serifs and put them on . |
| 26 | SPRINGFIELDS employee Bal Misry has been awarded £2,392 for a money-saving suggestions he made about weld samples . |
| 27 | To complete a bad day , Souness has had an FA warning following remarks he made about referee Stephen Lodge after the goalless draw with Southampton at Anfield last February . |
| 28 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 29 | The anthropologist 's social structure must be pieced together from a muddling mass of statements that Indians make about kinship connections , group names , ancestral derivations , linguistic affiliations , geographical sites , and so on … |
| 30 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |