Example sentences of "[conj] make [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , in brief , of the form If A , even if X , then still B. ( 1.4 ) Certain facts stated by the latter conditionals , together with effects being taken as later in time , are all that is needed to explain the difference we find or make between causal circumstances and causes on the one hand , and , on the other , their effects . |
| 2 | For buildings which were not faced with marble or made of ashlar blocks , a marble stucco generally covered the brick and concrete walling . |
| 3 | ( b ) The selection of an appropriate method for calculating the related cost , where a number of identical items have been purchased or made at different times ( such as unit costs , average cost or FIFO — first in first out : see below ) . |
| 4 | It may be strip-grazed behind an electric fence , cut and carted to the cattle-yard , or made into arable silage . |
| 5 | Home smokeries may be purchased or made in large tins or drums . |
| 6 | In some instances constraints would be imposed indirectly through the imposition of a duty to provide reasons ; in other cases the courts hinted at the limits they would set , such as if the decision was perverse or made in bad faith . |
| 7 | Manufacturing fewer units than can be sold either reduces revenue because orders are not accepted or makes for late deliveries if they are . |
| 8 | An important distinction is that made between retail and wholesale deposits and loans . |
| 9 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 10 | Accepted authorities on the writing of good English prose — the Fowler brothers and Arthur Quiller-Couch — agree on three rules that make for effective writing : |
| 11 | The cottages were small and damp , with earth floors and none of the cooking or sanitary arrangements that make for domestic comfort . |
| 12 | I have mentioned particular examples of qualities that make for high survival value among memes . |
| 13 | To have both a family and interesting work means a terrible struggle , and yet I think that those are the things that make for human happiness . |
| 14 | But curiously enough this dish , although made with fresh meat rather than with left-over boiled beef , has much in its flavour and composition which makes it akin to the celebrated miroton , always reputed to be characteristic of the cooking of the Paris concierge . |
| 15 | Although made in black-and-white , Sir Francis Drake is still sold to television stations around the world . |
| 16 | ‘ People in Bavaria say it is crazy not to have tall cylindro-conicals in a wholly ultra-modern brewery , ’ says Brombach , ‘ but I think that kind of vessel sets up a convection that makes for dirty beer . ’ |
| 17 | A further danger is that adaptation may mix different individual styles and make for poor reading . |
| 18 | Contributions from Squadron members are related in the order that they joined the unit and make for fascinating reading , especially as raids and operations inter-weave with different opinions coming to the fore — Alan has added occasional notes only by way of factual back-up , ensuring the originality of the contributor 's writing . |
| 19 | Get into the trees and make for high ground . |
| 20 | It was complete with bar and barman , hot-dog simmerer , king-sized double-doored two-tone refrigerator , drugstore hotplates , big-game trophies on the walls ( the host was a big-game hunter who acted in his spare time ) , and huge , deep , low divans and easy chairs — villainously uncomfortable for men , but marvellously made for cute little women who could tuck their cute little legs away and blazingly efface their cute little pretty little pouting little personalities in niches of the vast furniture and make like cute little pussycats . |
| 21 | Cotte ( 1982a : 138 ) describes the contrast between oblige and make in different but complementary terms . |
| 22 | The dress itself was old-fashioned and made of cheap , unyielding woollen material in a deadly , flat shade of grey , a shade which was a negation of colour , an annihilation of any possibility of prettiness , an ultimately dejected and miserable grey . |
| 23 | There are some unusually good things to see inside the church of Saint-Savin : a ‘ Eucharist tower ’ twenty feet and three storeys high , Gothic in style , and made of gilded wood ; two primitive fifteenth-century panels , each containing nine scenes from the life of the church 's name-saint ; a Renaissance organ carried on what is left of a wooden gallery that once ran right across the church , from transept to transept — on the front of the instrument are three articulated mascarons , which moved their eyes and tongues as the organ played , in representation of wretched earthly sinners , grimacing at the intolerable sound of joyful , heavenly music . |
| 24 | The massive thighs which emerged from out of the smock were encased in a pair of extraordinary breeches , bottle-green in colour and made of coarse twill . |
| 25 | Note that the average is surprisingly low for the year 1300 ( at the top of the graph ) ; but in this year we know of complaints from the king that the dies were of poor quality and made of soft metal |
| 26 | Its blade was two-edged , and made of heavy bronze , the grooves chased like lotus stems . |
| 27 | It 's well cut and made of high quality fabric that hangs beautifully , although it 's a little staid ; just the thing for the office . |
| 28 | Gemma will only eat her Chum if it is sliced and made into dainty triangular sandwiches — with the crusts cut off ! |
| 29 | 2 oz ( 50g ) wholemeal bread , spread with mustard and/or Branston pickle and made into open sandwiches with 2 oz ( 50g ) ham , chicken or turkey , and topped with sliced tomatoes OR Jacket potato ( approx. 6oz [ 150g ] ) topped with 1oz ( 25g ) sweetcorn and 3oz ( 75g ) cottage cheese |
| 30 | The supporting piers were massive , few in number in order not to obscure the interior vista but great in diameter and made into important features of the design . |