Example sentences of "[noun] make for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kicking the body off his machete , Mortimer made for Carrefour , who was frantically scraping at the grave . |
| 2 | And once again , there was a welcome on the streets as the cars made for Freemantle . |
| 3 | Blue smoke , two cigarettes in an ashtray , I I love you , curling with tarry blue clouds from lips made for romance . |
| 4 | Like a thirsty horse making for water , I lunged . |
| 5 | An annualized inflation rate of between 12 and 15 per cent was predicted and provision made for salary increases in line with this rate . |
| 6 | In response to requests from a number of Departments within the University , the Enterprise Centre looked at the provision made for students wishing to start their own businesses or with business ideas which they want to explore . |
| 7 | This , as mentioned above , is defined as ‘ educational provision which is additional to , or otherwise different from , the educational provision made for children of [ the child 's ] age in schools maintained by the LEA ’ . |
| 8 | He displayed perfectly that contradiction of attitude ( or ‘ supreme paradox ’ , as Phillipson puts it ) in ‘ expert ’ thinking on old age that had emerged by the 1940s — on the one hand portraying the elderly as a disastrous burden on society ( men over the age of 65 and women ova 60 had formed 6.2 per cent of the British population in 1901 , an estimated 12.0 per cent in 1941 , and would be 20.8 per cent in 1971 ) , yet on the other hand , paying lip-service to their status as an exceptionally deserving group : ‘ Provision made for age must be satisfactory ; otherwise great numbers may suffer . |
| 9 | She was an extremely angry , very bitter woman , who was determined to get everybody around her as angry as she could , and she succeeded , and I do n't know where she 's moved now , but I 'm sure she will go on and do the same thing , and frankly , I despair of anything being done unless there is some provision made for people such as herself , and one of her friends in particular . |
| 10 | By analysing a job with the benefit of experience , the peaks and troughs of activity can be identified and proper provision made for staff allocation . |
| 11 | And so there does not need to be a separate provision made for numbers of concealed households . |
| 12 | The picture includes the provision made for amateur and professional , part-time and full-time church musicians . |
| 13 | Their four million inhabitants have an automatic right of access to ‘ wild land ’ , with provision made for privacy , disturbance and damage . |
| 14 | French channels may buy BBC and Independent TV company programmes and in 1986 the Hersant Berlusconi ‘ le Cinq ’ imported programmes made for Berlusconi 's Italian channels , yet otherwise it seems the four major European countries — Britain , France , West Germany , Italy — buy relatively few programmes from one another : for one French-made ‘ Chateauvallon ’ , there are 10 Australian ‘ Neighbours ’ or 100 US ‘ Dallas ’ and ‘ Kojak ’ on UK television channels . |
| 15 | That goes hand-in-hand with the case made for trade union involvement in oil and gas industry activities . |
| 16 | As she was also trying out several other would-be choreographers and having new ballets made for Sadler 's Wells by Ashton and Howard too , she could hardly have done more for someone who was regarded as promising ( by some people as highly promising ) but unproven . |
| 17 | The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area . |
| 18 | The proposed Directive applies only to bids made for companies registered in a member state and publicly quoted on a stock exchange in the Community . |
| 19 | Members heard financial bids made for City Challenge funding would only cover the hard engineering part of the anti-flood scheme at a cost of £800,000 . |
| 20 | The payments the peasantry made for access to noble land , whether in the form of share-cropping , labour rent or money rent , constituted a massive burden upon the rural economy . |
| 21 | He is armed with one of the ancient Runefangs made for Sigmar by Alaric the Mad . |
| 22 | Diamond patterned cane with cotton covered cushions makes for comfort on the patio . |
| 23 | Joseph had a simple clearance to make for Palace 's first goal and Segers should have held the cross that led to the second — I could have caught it myself . ’ |
| 24 | It is true that the capitalist system of production with its inherent conflicts between workers and management makes for inefficiency but it is not necessarily true , as they claim , that collectivism is a more powerful force for productivity than individualism . |
| 25 | Paddy made for Dad , who happened to be the only customer standing at the bar counter , awaiting his change . |
| 26 | The charge made for school meals is a good example , and in recent years the burden has grown as the price of a school meal has increased dramatically . |
| 27 | This newly discovered Gamble–De Lamerie partnership reinforces the long-held attribution to Hogarth of the engraving on the famous Exchequer seal salver made for Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 28 | The two pilots made for Barber 's Point to await developments . |
| 29 | A training video made for Zeneca , the pharmaceutical group recently demerged from I C I . |
| 30 | When Capital Transfer Tax was introduced in 1975 substantial exemptions were granted for outstanding historic houses , their contents and amenity land ( and provisions made for maintenance funds ) in return for public access and undertakings for conservation . |