Example sentences of "make [pron] a [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 2 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 3 | Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another . |
| 4 | He accepted that his return made him a target for the IRA . |
| 5 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 6 | It is sometimes said of Parliament that , say , it can make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris , or that it can not turn a man into a woman . |
| 7 | It is , however , equally true that Parliament can not stop Frenchmen smoking on the streets of Paris ( or , for that matter , Englishmen smoking on the streets of London ) and that it can make it a crime for a man not to turn into a woman . |
| 8 | Parliament may make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris but he may puff away on the Montparnasse with impunity ( until , that is , he arrives at Dover ) . |
| 9 | Amongst the possible charges which legislators could face were fraud ( a fraud statute of the District of Columbia made it a felony for a person knowingly to write a cheque which exceeded the amount in the relevant account by more than $100 ) , tax evasion , and the violation of disclosure and campaign fund laws . |
| 10 | Scheckter and Depailler made it a double for the Tyrrell six-wheeler ( which was later to be banned , like many another intelligent innovation ) , Niki came third and Hunt limped in fifth , nearly a minute off the pace . |
| 11 | That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway . |
| 12 | The section , introduced on 1 July last year — less than two weeks before the accident — made it an offence for a driver to cause death by careless driving and while over the drink drive limit . |
| 13 | This simply goes along with his being the archetypal great detective , and even with Dostoevsky making him a vehicle for the airing of central thematic issues . |
| 14 | Donaghadee 's Gerry Bell won the prize for the best out of state angler , making it a hat-trick for the local club . |
| 15 | ‘ We want to establish a play resource centre there , making it an attraction for the whole town , ’ he said . |
| 16 | When your FlexiLoan is arranged , we will give you a special cheque book so that when the time comes to spend some or all of your borrowing limit , all you have to do is make our a cheque for the right amount . |
| 17 | At 30 he had amassed enough knowledge of transcendental experience systems to make him a contender for the job of running what was regarded by many as one of Europe 's best Transcendental Operations Modules . |
| 18 | The unstoppable pair of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent are doubling up to make it a foursome for the race from Mortlake to Putney tomorrow . |
| 19 | Did n't we get a bit from the FA or whatever to make it a ground for the European Championships ? |
| 20 | He called for a change in the civil law , rather than criminal statute , to make it an offence for a parent to beat a child , as in Sweden . |
| 21 | S 46 makes it an offence for a person to act as a charity trustee while disqualified . |
| 22 | The Public Service Vehicles ( Conduct of Drivers , Conductors and Passengers ) Regulations makes it an offence for a person to ‘ use obscene and offensive language , or to conduct himself in a riotous or disorderly manner . ’ |
| 23 | The third aspect of Part II is that section 10 now makes it an offence for a trader to supply consumer goods which fail to comply with a general safety requirement . |
| 24 | Section 120(3) makes it an offence for a promoter or participant to receive any payment or the benefit of any payments which some other participant is induced to make by reason that the prospect is held out to him of receiving payments or other benefits for introducing other persons into the scheme . |
| 25 | Section 47(2) of the FSA makes it an offence for a person to carry out any act or engage in any course of conduct which creates a false or misleading impression about the market in , or the price or value of , any investment . |
| 26 | The good news is that the phlegmatic , orderly and systematic British attitude to defending the goal still makes us a match for the best . |