Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | References may not be recommended where they could be appropriate or useful ; in other places , too many references can make for a very tedious search . |
| 2 | In a typical institutional kitchen the combination of floor tile , water , grease , food spills and so on can make for a very dangerous environment . |
| 3 | Some of the procedures of discourse analysis will make for a more profound examination of this process . |
| 4 | I promise it will make for a more positive atmosphere around you . |
| 5 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 6 | If the English paintings in the National Gallery could be included ( and I imagine that is not possible ) , it would make for a truly remarkable museum a real tribute to the ‘ Englishness of English art ’ . |
| 7 | Clearly , the military could and did act as a very powerful interest group and had the support of the heavy industrial interest , which was dependent on the manufacture of armaments . |
| 8 | I I think that er what has been known as an inner northern bypass , that is a road which passes between Harrogate and Knaresborough , could act as a very effective relief road for the A fifty nine . |
| 9 | But Richard Ingham , managing director of Beacham Peplow Noakes Advertising says he would opt for a more down-to-earth approach . |
| 10 | But in historical retrospect it does count as a very early example of visual effects in a TV serial . |
| 11 | This would count as a very serious mistake in spoken language interpreting . |
| 12 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 13 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
| 14 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 15 | She did n't know of a more loving couple than her mum and dad . |
| 16 | Although his voice and the accent change slightly when he becomes the narrator , Dustin was brilliantly convincing as a very old man , as well as managing to look and behave like a very young man when necessary . |
| 17 | As she went she arranged her violets : " Put their feet together , dear , and the flowers will fall into a pretty natural shape , " she had been told ; not so easy to achieve when neglected violets had such short legs . |
| 18 | He will have a certain power and extensive influence , and his Queen will fall into a more supporting role . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed . |
| 20 | This is surely a general result , that if the management left to itself would act in a socially optimal way along the lines represented in ( 4.1 ) , it is fatuous , indeed counterproductive , to constrain it . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm afraid I might behave in a rather cowardly fashion . |
| 22 | Your model will now behave in a perfectly normal manner , but the other way up . |
| 23 | ‘ And we both know that can make people behave in a very strange way , ’ he said drily . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Risk was seen as being a possible focus for dissent on the Board , as someone who would interfere with hard decisions that might have to be made about Distillers , and who would , therefore , behave in a more executive role than had been envisaged , rather than as a figurehead . |
| 25 | I 'll try and behave in a more grown-up fashion … " |
| 26 | Also , even bureaucrats , those Weberian embodiments of modernity , do not behave in a purely rational-legal manner , we shall find . |
| 27 | The zebra loach has become so specialized that it can not survive in a less turbulent environment . |
| 28 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |
| 29 | MV And South Korea could count on a peculiarly nasty dictatorship to help quicken the pace of its capitalist development . |
| 30 | Critics say it should concentrate on a less exclusive market . |