Example sentences of "make [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business and friendship can often make for strained bedfellows — as the experience of the man who had made Virgin 's first fortune also proved . |
| 2 | Disciplined operating procedures can be followed more readily and this will make for smoother performances in all areas . |
| 3 | Hand-made panels do not necessarily make for better cars . |
| 4 | This would only make for higher scores which ca n't be good for the game . |
| 5 | Long sentences , which can stand plenty of repetition or extension , will make for long themes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What provision did the ATS make for discharged personnel of this nature ? |
| 9 | It would only make for more difficulties later on . |
| 10 | This can hardly make for distinguished results . ) |
| 11 | 291 made off 366 balls , with 38 fours , in just under eight hours does rather speak for itself . |
| 12 | Widnes opener Tim Bostock laid the base with 52 made off 117 balls , with skipper Cockbain cracking 44 off just 54 balls in 42 minutes to keep the run- rate going . |
| 13 | But it is arguable that the soundness of statements about wider matters such as authorial style relies ultimately on the statements we can make about particular texts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The first paragraph , for example , comes from p. 10 and the second from p. 13 ; and all the connections Leech and Short make between these pages have been lost , with the result that it is not clear how the first paragraph leads to the second paragraph . |
| 16 | I shall answer his question directly : we do not believe that the information should be denied to parents , but we believe that crude performance tables should not be used to distort the choices that parents make between different schools in Scotland , as would be the case if the Bill were implemented . |
| 17 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 18 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 21 | An ergonomically designed cockpit , with instrumentation and controls logically zoned , make for error-free readings of any situation . |
| 22 | Nut roasts can be a tasty change after all that turkey , and the natural oils make for moist cakes . |
| 23 | Primary elections are very popular with the television industry ; they make for good visuals , and they allow producers to focus ad infinitum on personalities rather than getting bogged down in the boring complexities of issues . |
| 24 | Exhaustive observations make for exhausted observers , and the subsequent re-synthesis becomes quite mind-boggling . |
| 25 | The problem with them , however , is that it is not always clear what predictions they make for particular paradigms ( Alba & Hasher , 1983 ; Brewer & Nakamura , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | Tools , after all , extend the very possibility of humanity as productive agent , and thus make for obvious analogies with biological function . |
| 27 | I find it important that the ‘ ceiling ’ of the cave should be reasonably low and the entrance small , for which reason I usually use broken pots which make for smaller caves . |
| 28 | If you wish to make a reservation for 10 or more people , contact your travel agent , and do n't forget the special discounts we make for most groups — see page 11 . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most obvious use you can make of non-ELT materials on video is to introduce topics which are relevant to your students . |
| 30 | What criticisms would you make of both notes with regard to their : |