Example sentences of "making [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long have people been making pastry for ? |
| 2 | All those decision making activities for which relevant information existed only in implicit form were carried out exclusively by experts . |
| 3 | In his biography of John Wesley the by then very conservative Robert Southey warned : Perhaps the manner in which Methodism has familiarized the lower classes to the work of combining in associations , making rules for their own governance , raising funds , and communicating from one part of the kingdom to another , may be reckoned among the incidental evils which have arisen from it . |
| 4 | Internationally one must recognize that greater success has attended more decentralized firms making products for smaller market niches . |
| 5 | They always knew where the next offensive was because they were making maps for them . |
| 6 | He genuinely had little concern with making money for its own sake , but he could not fail to be infected by Marjorie 's martyred attitude to their shortage of cash , and he resented being reminded of it by Kegan 's sleekness . |
| 7 | Cakes , Easter gifts and toys contributed £75 to club funds , while the Traidcraft stall was making money for communities in the Third World . |
| 8 | QUADROPHONIC sound is alive and well and making money for US inventor Wesley Ruggles thanks to a string of patents for his improvements on the old CBS SQ system . |
| 9 | Making money for good causes is probably why the National Wildlife Federation , the National Audubon Society and other environmental mailers sell their mailing lists to high-fashion clothiers , luxury-car dealers and other non-tree-hugging capitalists . |
| 10 | It was hard , when a man worked as hard as he did , making money for her — yes , and with an ache in his heart — that she should sit there , looking — as if she saw the walls of the room closing in . |
| 11 | Thus , since the executive 's way of making money for the corporation is not viewed as either immoral or criminal , his neighbours are hardly likely to discriminate against him ; after all , there but for the grace of the enforcement agencies |
| 12 | Another failure in terms of making money for investors . |
| 13 | ‘ Madam , I must tell you , ’ I replied , ‘ that since he found me , my master has used me as an easy way of making money for himself . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it must be making money for somebody ; maybe you were n't able to invest enough . |
| 15 | Not that Melissa cared two hoots whether it was making money for Bonard or not — whatever Iris might claim , he was certainly not strapped for cash — but it was essential for Iris 's self-esteem that it should go well . |
| 16 | But from tomorrow the House of Commons should open the way for the first national lottery , making money for sport , the arts and charities . |
| 17 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 18 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 19 | They 've not been making money for years though |
| 20 | They 're all making money for themselves are n't they ? |
| 21 | This applies equally to members of module review groups and to those involved in making proposals for additions to the Catalogue . |
| 22 | The Director General of Fair Trading has an overall strategic role in making proposals for regulating the market and protecting the consumer , but he does not deal with individual cases . |
| 23 | I 've been making sketches for a painting I shall do when I 'm free . |
| 24 | A party meeting was to be held on the following Monday and the Whips were making preparation for a vote to be taken . |
| 25 | The Ranger got safely out to sea , with three prisoners aboard , some others who had been taken having been released , and by 6 am was making course for Kirkcudbright Bay in the Solway Firth . |
| 26 | Edith qualified at the very first Medau Society Teachers ' Examination in 1955 , and carried on developing classes in Essex , all the time making openings for the new teachers who were beginning to emerge . |
| 27 | If the family finances have been badly affected by the patient 's stroke , you may have to go to work as well as making provision for caring for the patient . |
| 28 | From the perspective of reformers and administrati , if collectivism was to participate in the restructuring of society by making provision for its efficient management , then working-class boys could no longer be ignored . |
| 29 | This involves , among other things , choosing the date and venue , the printing and advertising , arranging for the supply of the targets , field layout , appointing a judge and scorers , making provision for luncheon and tea and chairing the meeting after lunch . |
| 30 | He should take no thought for the morrow , and should bear in mind that possessions imply making provision for the future . |