Example sentences of "[noun sg] make [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 10 ) Throughout Stages 1 and 2 , DCSLs may be involved in advising schools , librarians , or library committees on practical matters , from suggesting trends in library layout ( for schools relocating or refurbishing their libraries in anticipation of , or as a result of , receiving a project grant ) to advising on precise requirements of order forms , the need to " weed " old stock to make space for the new acquisitions , and the desirability or updating or devising a new catalogue . |
| 2 | Mr d'Ancona admits : ‘ It was probably harder to get British industry to respond to the legitimate requirements of the oil industry than to get the oil industry to make allowance for the legitimate interests of the supply industry . ’ |
| 3 | once the strength of the new week 's material has been assessed , the next move is to decide which records will be removed from the present playlist to make room for the new ones . |
| 4 | We dismantled the imprinting equipment to make way for the passive avoidance pens and I set about raising the grant money to let us move into full swing . |
| 5 | When a local planning authority makes proposals for the future use of land in an area , through the publication of a local plan , it is often an occasion for great local controversy . |
| 6 | The legislation made provision for the compulsory purchase of 5,500,000 hectares of predominantly white-owned land earmarked for redistribution to black families . |
| 7 | And wherever there was a suggestion of a space there would be a craftsman bent over his work : a weaver over his loom , a metal-worker crouched over a dish of grey ash fanning a lump of live charcoal in its midst with a blowpipe , a basket-worker holding what he was making with his toes so as to leave his hands free , a turner doing his turning with a little bow which might have been used to shoot arrows , the man making pegs for the ornate wooden windows . |
| 8 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 9 | She 's been giving me strange looks ever since I got here — doubtless because it 's not exactly commonplace for the star of the show to make bookings for the lowly make-up artist . ’ |
| 10 | That 's why they had torn down the children 's hospital to make room for the miniature golf course . |
| 11 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |
| 12 | Increasingly frustrated , he walked out in 1974 to help found Newsreel , an independent collective making films for the Labour movement . |
| 13 | Normal accounting principles require the company to make provision for the onerous lease , because it is effectively a liability that may have no corresponding economic benefit in the future . |
| 14 | On his return to Uralmash from a business course in West Germany in 1988 , Mr Korovin set up a joint venture with an Austrian company to make equipment for the continuous casting of steel . |
| 15 | The bill also dissolved , from December 1992 , the High Commission for the Fight against the Mafia ( which since the early 1980s had had little success ) in order to make way for the new Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate ( DIA ) . |
| 16 | ‘ And if possible try to make amends for the rude way you spoke to Lucy . |
| 17 | The grynd continues , but these days the whale meat is no longer needed for food , and islanders are often having to empty last year 's whale meat from the freezer to make way for the fresh catch . |
| 18 | This Meeting , taking also into Consideration the numbers of Complaints against makers & sellers of yearn in Isla , hereby appoint that a Mercat for yearn shall be held at Bowmore on the first Tuesday of March yearly , and on such other days as they afterwards shall appoint , And hereby ordain the Clerk to make advertisments for the different Parish Kirks . |
| 19 | Edith qualified at the very first Medau Society Teachers ' Examination in 1955 , and carried on developing classes in Essex , all the time making openings for the new teachers who were beginning to emerge . |
| 20 | The facts of the case contained three elements : ( 1 ) DORA , giving power to make Regulations for the public safety and defence of the realm ; ( 2 ) the ‘ daughter ’ Regulations made under DORA , allowing the food Controller to regulate dealings in any article ; and ( 3 ) the Food Controller 's Order ( ‘ granddaughter ’ of DORA ) that no milk should be sold without licence , coupled with his grant of a licence on condition of receiving payment . |
| 21 | The statute gives power to make Orders for the public safety and defence of the realm : in other words for the waging of war . |