Example sentences of "[noun pl] make for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flatworms , tapeworms or threadworms make for lurid and colourful pictures in the horror section of Koi manuals , but their life cycle is invariably so complex that not all the vectors will be present in the pond . |
| 2 | The very simplicity of the structure meant that even formal break-up might be only a temporary interruption since the survival of the essential units made for easy reconstruction . |
| 3 | The principal aim of the Juvenile ‘ Rules ’ was to continue ‘ the supervision of the boy or girl , when placed , with a view to his or her further education , both technical and humanistic ’ and to bring to bear on the life of the adolescents ‘ all the influences making for industrial efficiency , for enlightened citizenship and self-realisation ’ . |
| 4 | However , occasionally the spongs also bridge ravines making for brave crossings especially when you have no idea of their quality . |
| 5 | The proposals made for guaranteed work by the House of Commons Select Committee on Employment are also relevant to any scheme of providing a bridging mechanism between training on the one hand and permanent employment in the labour market on the other ( Special Employment Measures and the Long-term Unemployed , House of Commons Paper 99 , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | In the first 20 years of the Survey 's activities in Scotland , practically all of the central and southern parts of the country had been surveyed on the 6-inch scale and manuscript copies of the field maps made for public reference . |
| 7 | Broadcasting hours were doubled to twelve hours on weekdays and plans made for separate networks : the TBC was to have a ‘ National programme ’ in Swahili and a ‘ Second programme ’ in English . |
| 8 | Calls made for secure unit |
| 9 | Trade-routes made for easy travel and communications between the land of Abram 's birth and Canaan . |
| 10 | In arts and social science particularly , this led to appointments made for political rather than academic reasons . |
| 11 | Exhaustive observations make for exhausted observers , and the subsequent re-synthesis becomes quite mind-boggling . |
| 12 | What had been very much less a feature of Scottish society were bonds made for immediate political needs and opportunism , rather than to create lifelong and general obligations . |
| 13 | The continual jolting and the cramped conditions made for unexpected hazards . |
| 14 | This should improve any predictions made for unknown or mis-recognised words . |
| 15 | The following activities and exercises may be pursued individually or in groups , and may provide a framework for individual study leading to personal or group presentations in seminars or workshops , dependent on the resources available and the provisions made for personal study in the course curriculum or re-orientation programme . |
| 16 | In addition to the provisions made for automatic operation , the ventilating system should be provided with the means for regular testing and should incorporate over-ride facilities to enable the ventilators to be manually operated under fire fighting conditions . |
| 17 | An opportunity to view provisions made for toothless conscripts — a hard rubber solution ( vulcanite ) was moulded to the gums and porcelain teeth attached . |
| 18 | This was due to provisions made for expected losses resulting from the Indian securities trading scandal . |
| 19 | The history of Chinese culture , from the Neolithic period through to modern China , is presented thematically , through rituals for ancestor worship , technology , calligraphy , ceramics for tea and wine , Buddhist images , and goods made for foreign trade . |
| 20 | An international reciprocity agreement has been signed with the American Council for Construction Education [ ACCE ] and arrangements made for developing Institute Membership in the United States . |
| 21 | It also says that the C. and A.G. takes into account the arrangements made for internal audit . |
| 22 | Strictly speaking , all these ‘ occupational ’ or employers ' pensions were either ‘ public sector ’ pensions derived from formal arrangements made for central or local government employees or ‘ private sector ’ pensions . |
| 23 | Its two miles of almost deserted white sand and coral reefs make for excellent sunbathing and snorkelling . |
| 24 | Hegedus recognizes that the ‘ humanization ’ of administration will be opposed by vested interests within the bureaucracy — the fetish of expertise , the ideology of centralized planning , the principle of personnel stability , and so on — but insists that the apologetics made for bureaucratic relations are inconsistent with Marxism . |
| 25 | The California Public Utilities Commission administrative law judge has proposed that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's Pacific Bell unit be assessed a $33m penalty and be forced to make $32m in refunds for alleged inappropriate charges made for late bill payments and service restorations from 1986 to 1991 . |
| 26 | From 6 April 1992 eligible trainees are entitled to deduct tax at the basic rate from payments made for qualifying training . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is from this base that the Report goes on to conclude that only the state , in its cultural and even spiritual manifestation , is capable of overcoming the forces making for national disunity . |
| 28 | It must be designed to constitute an essential component of those forces making for positive change in our country . |
| 29 | Nut roasts can be a tasty change after all that turkey , and the natural oils make for moist cakes . |
| 30 | Environmental claims made for disposable nappies by their manufacturer , Proctor and Gamble , have been challenged by in independent survey commissioned by the Women 's Environmental Network ( WEN ) . |