Example sentences of "[noun] made [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times when his grandma or his aunties made trouble for him behind his back , or when someone would comment on his lack of height and Sweetheart would punish him for the embarrassment he caused her . |
| 2 | Eddie Youds made way for sub keeper Clive Baker who held out for Ipswich 's eighth draw . |
| 3 | The accord made provision for a new prime minister and a " national consensus Cabinet " to negotiate with the OAS for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 4 | The Grand Union Act made provision for the widening of the locks when and if the Grand Junction relented on the matter of Blisworth . |
| 5 | Undaunted , the 1918 Education Act made provision for local authorities to begin to open such schools for all 14–16 year-olds not otherwise engaged in full-time secondary education . |
| 6 | The Act made provision for such an office , which has now been established and has already contributed to increased efficiency in the division . |
| 7 | So Roxburgh made sense for that King David . |
| 8 | This was the formula whereby the law made provision for the descent of landed estates within a line . |
| 9 | The Cuban law made provision for compensation with government bonds , redeemable within twenty years with an annual interest rate of 4.5 per cent . |
| 10 | The LEA refused to concede , even when the parents made application for judicial review ; but when the application to the court was amended to focus on the legality of the LEA 's admissions procedures and their operation , the authority finally backed down and found places for the children at two schools where non-white pupils were firmly in the minority ( Overthorpe and Thornhill ) . |
| 11 | The association of ideas made fondness for Gentle sound like another disease , but he did n't comment on it , merely made arrangements to pick up Klein the following evening and put down the phone , plunged into a deeper trough than ever . |
| 12 | Then each discharger made application for consent and simply by applying was ‘ deemed ’ to have it . |
| 13 | The crowd of bystanders made way for him and he caught sight of Ernie Passmore among them . |
| 14 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 15 | Although the Constitution made provision for referenda , there had never previously been any exercise of this kind . |
| 16 | As for the industry 's registered dock labour force , the Government made provision for a three year redundancy scheme , jointly financed by the Government and the employer of any dockers who were ‘ surplus to requirements ’ . |
| 17 | In its original form the Bill made provision for a single ballot , the decision resting on a simple majority of those voting . |
| 18 | The legislation made provision for the compulsory purchase of 5,500,000 hectares of predominantly white-owned land earmarked for redistribution to black families . |
| 19 | Admittedly , the draft legislation made provision for a more demanding sort of primary education in parts of the country which expressed a desire for it , but the likelihood of this superior version taking root was small in view of the poverty of the peasants who would have to pay for it . |
| 20 | But , above all , this enlargement made provision for the revival of the local past which Lanfranc 's building had rigorously excluded : on either side of the high altar were the altars of Dunstan and Elphege , and over the altar was a beam on which they stood flanking the figure of Christ in Majesty . |
| 21 | The Gordon Bennett races made way for the first Grand Prix in 1906 when Szisz of Romania won the inaugural French Grand Prix at Le Mans . |
| 22 | The company made way for the next entertainment the islanders offered to mark the treaty they had made , and Tiguary gave Dulé a drink and hugged him , sitting him down beside him to watch the dancers who now occupied the clearing . |
| 23 | This authorization made provision for the removal of one large , identifiable group of surrendered personnel from 5 Corps responsibility , although at the same time Robertson instructed that " steps should be taken to ensure that Allied PW held in Russian area are transferred to us in exchange " . |
| 24 | But their eyes and looks made love for them , and spread happiness around them , and their talk was always of the future they were to spend together . |
| 25 | In its annual report of 1938 the Committee stated that ‘ the existing scale of benefits can not be regarded as so fully meeting needs as to make it undesirable to raise them further ’ and continued , ‘ if … the wage system made allowance for dependency , the main objection to further increase in the rates of benefit would be removed ’ ( Quoted in Green , 1938 ) . |
| 26 | Some schemes made provision for such practical work in the classroom . |