Example sentences of "[verb] not make for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And even that did not make for encouraging listening .
2 These films do not make for easy viewing .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Theories do not make for liberating music .
7 The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture .
12 The NIMBY ( not in my back yard ) attitude , whether at home or abroad , does not make for good environmental policy .
13 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 .
14 In short , both of them combine motley membership with rigid structure — which does not make for relaxed , efficient teamwork .
15 It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again .
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