Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] make [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This has now been demolished to make way for new houses .
2 It may well have been used to make bows for local archers who went off to fight in the battle of Agincourt .
3 It will replace the former market at Sneinton which is to be cleared to make way for new business units creating 550 new jobs .
4 Two centuries later , a second dilapidation occurred , when the roof leads were stripped to make coinage for military upkeep .
5 Most of the former car works at Cowley is being demolished to make way for new development , but one building has been carefully taken down so it can be donated to the Oxford Bus Museum Trust .
6 Shortly afterwards , an area nearby was bulldozed to make way for radar-tracking equipment .
7 Ninety-five marbles , including the famous ‘ Ares Ludovisi ’ , a beautiful study of a young seated warrior in repose , were bought that year from the noble Boncompagni Ludovisi family after their villa was destroyed to make way for Roman suburbia .
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