Example sentences of "[verb] make a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , Edward Shorter has made a similar case for improvements in women 's health status generally as a pre-requisite to an active feminist movement . |
| 2 | Psion Plc has made a strong recovery for the year to December 31 due to a large increase in both international sales and sales of its Series 3 range of handheld computers to the retail sector . |
| 3 | But moving house has made a great difference for me . |
| 4 | Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan has made a renewed inquiry for Hughes , but Ferguson says : ‘ What 's the point in signing a striker to sell a striker ? |
| 5 | Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the service may come to late for a childless woman who has made a desperate plea for an egg donor . |
| 7 | Mr. Robert Hughes : My Hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) has made a compelling case for the amendments , and I wish only to reinforce one or two of his points . |
| 8 | Since then , the hon. Member for Clydebank and Milngavie ( Mr. Worthington ) has made a persuasive case for including such provisions in the Bill . |
| 9 | Germany has a target of a 30 per cent reduction by 2005 , France recommends cuts of up to 50 per cent by 2030 , Italy has made a parliamentary resolution for 20 per cent cuts by 2005 and Australia also is aiming for 20 per cent cuts by 2005 . |
| 10 | The delay is due to the complex documentation required , X/Open claims , saying that it wants to make a big splash for XPG4 , now scheduled for the Autumn . |
| 11 | But it is perhaps better not to try to make a bizarre idea for a murder the seed in your mind for a book , though when you have devised your plot you should of course make the actual circumstances of the murder as attention-grabbing as possible . |
| 12 | Though not used by homoeopathic pharmacies in this country for potencies below the 1M , it is used commercially in Belgium for all potencies , and is also used when a practitioner has to make a specific potency for a particular patient , such as a potency of chloroform for a case of chloroform allergy . |
| 13 | DES WALKER knows he has to make a quick impression for his new club , Sampdoria . |
| 14 | Polythene DITRA Matting is said to make a perfect surface for ceramic tiles when laid on to most floor surfaces . |
| 15 | Andre Agassi will return to make a major challenge for the Wimbledon title . |
| 16 | It takes us from the 19th century through to the 1930s and 1940s and the pioneering work of a number of embroiderers , in particular Constance Howard , who in 1951 was invited to make a large-scale work for the Festival of Britain . |
| 17 | Unfortunately they are not usually repeatable , so having made a superb jumper for your mother , you will probably be unable to make one for yourself . |
| 18 | Eddie Gray is genuinely regarded by some clever football people to have been every bit as good as best , and could have made a similar name for himself had he not been dogged by injury . |
| 19 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 20 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
| 21 | The bride was an attractive and lively young woman who under normal circumstances would have made a sympathetic wife for an energetic and ambitious young man . |
| 22 | If I , a plastics factory owner , decide to make a rear-lamp cluster for a particular car , either I or the car assembler will have to invest in the specific mould to produce it . |
| 23 | Equally vitally , the Government are failing to make a positive case for European integration . |
| 24 | After stalemate on the proposed merger between the two American airlines , Carl Icahn , owner of TWA , is set to make a formal offer for beleaguered Pan Am . |
| 25 | After leaving Devon the family had gone to Lancashire for work in the mills there and later started to make a new life for themselves in South Africa . |
| 26 | They were asked to make a mouthwatering meal for four using two ducklings , a savoy cabbage , potatoes and up to 3lbs of other ingredients . |
| 27 | Any production of ‘ A Midsummer Night 's Dream ’ with a host of well-known film stars , plus music by Mendelssohn , could not help but be of interest , but apparently it never did make a box-office fortune for MGM . |
| 28 | But Prestel does seem to have made a convincing case for its role in educational computing . |
| 29 | ‘ From this trading account , you would expect the business as a whole to have made a thumping loss for the year … |
| 30 | Taken together , all these properties of LTP would seem to make a powerful case for its study as , at the very least , an intriguing model for memory . |