Example sentences of "[det] make for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 2 | By making crowns of the most precious metal , gold ( and in the case of that made for Queen Alexandra platinum ) , and setting them with the most resplendent stones available , a combination of the most precious substances proclaimed the supremacy of the state and its titular head . |
| 3 | Some reached Switzerland and some made for the mountains , but the majority , around eighty , were recaptured by the Germans . |
| 4 | This made for some tight weightless riding . |
| 5 | In combination with his ardent desire to improve the living standard of the British working man , this made for a potent brand of imperialism ; few politicians took the Dual Mandate more seriously than Ernest Bevin . |
| 6 | This made for strong teaching from the Apostle Paul . |
| 7 | All this made for a disappointing start but I am happy to say that much else is on an altogether higher level . |
| 8 | This made for a kind of harmony and a kind of confidence . |
| 9 | This made for a softer , more innocent and ingenuous ‘ Dora ’ , but perhaps what was needed was a slightly sharper , more bristly Dora with a hidden vulnerability , which came more naturally when I gave her a North London accent … |
| 10 | All this made for contentment , and the greater part of the century was a time of content , though a bad harvest invariably meant serious food riots . |
| 11 | The pad oscillates very fast ( 10,000 orbits/min ) , with an orbit diameter of 2.4mm , and this makes for quick and efficient swirl-free sanding . |
| 12 | All this makes for a sea change in our lives , yet passes without comment during this campaign . |
| 13 | A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman . |
| 14 | this makes for far more interesting visuals , and if you 've got a team of useless old fogeys ( like Birmi … erm , like that not-very-good team from the Midlands ) their Markie Kendrick bald patches wo n't show ( Har ! |
| 15 | We have completed the first four parts in one day with groups of experienced trainees , though this makes for a very hard and long day . |
| 16 | The manufacturers claim that this makes for a ‘ powerful yet forgiving ’ frame which is easy on the arm . |
| 17 | This makes for a more stable environment , but also means that the creatures of the sea tend to live within a smaller temperature amplitude than terrestrial creatures . |
| 18 | This makes for 2,375 drawings ( 707 Flemish-Dutch , 513 French and 1,155 Italian ) . |
| 19 | The dragonflies beat their two wings synchronously , but this makes for very considerable physiological complexities . |
| 20 | This makes for a remarkable degree of working-class homogeneity , at least for the descendants of those who arrived before 1920 when what had been the world 's wealthiest and most productive industrial region outside the USA went into a very rapid decline . |
| 21 | This makes for the most efficient examination technique . |
| 22 | This makes for a radically differentiated supply structure , one not easily captured in a manageable set of statistics . |
| 23 | DataEase 's menus are n't overlaid GUI-style and do n't drop down , but this makes for a simple approach to building and using your database . |
| 24 | In other words , chords on the third to sixth degrees of the scale are only inversions of chords on the first and second degrees : Clearly this makes for rather meagre harmonic material if we limit ourselves only to triadic usage , so it is better to exploit other kinds of chord shapes which will serve to produce impressions of greater harmonic variety . |
| 25 | ‘ This makes for interesting discussions , since the normal matters which attract a higher gas price in the North Sea , such as high deliverability , are of no interest , ’ said Lewis Affleck , LOPL 's chief petroleum engineer . |
| 26 | This makes for some pretty useful functionality — you can print a red ‘ Top Secret ’ at an angle over the corner of a document , if that 's your bag . |
| 27 | The compost supplied especially for use in modules is best , as it can be compacted firmly ; this makes for blocks which remain in one piece when pressed out of their cells for transplanting . |
| 28 | This makes for a very compact representation of a map ; for example the YAC map in Figure 3 can be completely specified by a file listing the 180 probes in order , with the chromosome/contig breaks marked . |
| 29 | The width of the product line is also important , in that a wide product line may make it worthwhile for the manufacturer to market direct because the salesperson has a larger product portfolio with which to interest the customer , and this makes for more profit-earning potential . |
| 30 | Varese as well as Ives , and an Elliott Carter premiere — not much feminine sensibility there , though it all made for a classic Oliver Knussen pile-up of Americana , topped out with a violin concerto by Marc Neikrug that Pinchas Zukerman had brought to London for the first time . |