Example sentences of "[adv] make [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 2 | But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence . |
| 3 | Good science does not necessarily make for good philosophy . |
| 4 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 5 | The micro-political dimension of budgeting is based on the view that budgetary decisions are not necessarily made on rational — economic grounds but that the deciding factors may be other influences such as the power base of individuals or groups and their value systems . |
| 6 | Set out with freshly landscaped lawns and flowerbeds , the factory was almost entirely made of one-way glass : you could see out from inside but not in from outside . |
| 7 | Consider this passage about a sow : ‘ her combination of gross whiskery nakedness and riotous carnality is seized by the mythic imagination as a sort of uterus on the loose — upholstered with breasts , not so much many-breasted as a mobile tub entirely made of female sexual parts , a woman-sized , multiple udder of trotters . |
| 8 | The minority , in particular the 1540s , also produced a concentration of the more ‘ normal ’ bonds by the magnates , hitherto made for local purposes but now reflecting the need for support in a major political crisis . |
| 9 | There are four products in the range , all made with nourishing Alpine herbs . |
| 10 | As the paving is all made from broken paving slabs and , therefore , all the same thickness , you simply lay it on the levelled sand bed . |
| 11 | It is one of the old dishes especially made for potted char , the freshwater fish once a celebrated delicacy of the Cumberland lake district . |
| 12 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 13 | Sun E45 from Crookes Healthcare is a new range of sunscreen lotions especially made for sensitive skins . |
| 14 | ‘ Dishonestly ’ generally means without a claim of right made in good faith . |
| 15 | Cooking pots were mostly made of fired clay . |
| 16 | The various fittings associated with the handle rarely survive as they were presumably made from organic materials . |
| 17 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 18 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 19 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 20 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |
| 21 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 22 | The Building Regulations themselves do not make for easy reading , but there are various guides designed to explain them and the DoE now produce a Manual to the Building Regulations . |
| 23 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 24 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 25 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 26 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 27 | The NIMBY ( not in my back yard ) attitude , whether at home or abroad , does not make for good environmental policy . |
| 28 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 29 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 30 | In short , both of them combine motley membership with rigid structure — which does not make for relaxed , efficient teamwork . |