Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business and friendship can often make for strained bedfellows — as the experience of the man who had made Virgin 's first fortune also proved . |
| 2 | Long sentences , which can stand plenty of repetition or extension , will make for long themes . |
| 3 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 4 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 5 | What provision did the ATS make for discharged personnel of this nature ? |
| 6 | This can hardly make for distinguished results . ) |
| 7 | If it is not rape to threaten a woman other than with immediate violence , questions will inevitably arise about other situations . |
| 8 | But it is arguable that the soundness of statements about wider matters such as authorial style relies ultimately on the statements we can make about particular texts . |
| 9 | The owners say they need more cash for essential repairs . |
| 10 | So , users can migrate between terminal types , from a proprietary to an open environment or from a terminal to client-server environment as required . |
| 11 | The windscreen in front of the ‘ cabin' looks just like glass , but is in fact edible and made out of melted glacier mint — a clever and original idea you could adapt for other cakes , for example for windows . |
| 12 | Equally , divisional management could now bargain as stand-alone units , freed from corporate direction . |
| 13 | As an analogy , one does not consider the notion of fatherhood a vague one , within the semantic domain of family relationships , simply because there is an immense number of types of relationship which may exist between actual fathers and their offspring ; to do so would be a category error . |
| 14 | The letters of Gilbert Foliot , successively abbot of Gloucester , bishop of Hereford and London in the twelfth century , are singularly revealing , because they show us not only the range of a large family circle , but the strength of feeling which could exist between distant relatives . |
| 15 | The vacuum created by the sudden termination of the Pacific War raised enormous questions on the combustible internal situation in the territories affected , on allied policies , and on the relationship that would exist between local representatives of the allied powers and their home governments . |
| 16 | However , the fact that the child has language difficulties is probably a good indication that exposure to the kinds of language which enable most children to learn will not be sufficient to enable this child to make progress ; she may require adult input which is specially tailored to help compensate for particular areas of weakness . |
| 17 | Conversely , the assessment of insufficient performance points clearly to the sort of services necessary to redress or compensate for functional deficits . |
| 18 | one of these was the compensation pendulum , in which brass and steel are used to move freely and compensate for different co-efficients of expansion . |
| 19 | The problem can more easily arise for young academics , who are close in age to their students and do not know when they are crossing an invisible line . |
| 20 | Machinery does exist for selected authorities to appeal to the Secretary of State , and in 1986/7 several rate-capped councils appealed for and obtained redetermined spending levels . |
| 21 | Another sort of foreign or peripheral experience may exist for British writers even within London itself . |
| 22 | Per capita distribution of wealth roughly followed this division , the industrial countries having the highest standard of living and the agricultural nations of the south and east the lowest , but the figures do not exist for precise comparisons . |
| 23 | The third duke , whose wife had left him , set up a lady friend here ; and what more perfect house could exist for romantic visitations ? |
| 24 | In religious organizations reconciliation can persist for long periods of time . |
| 25 | ‘ Long periods of racial oppression ’ , he writes , ‘ can result in a system of inequality that may persist for indefinite periods of time even after racial barriers are removed ’ ( p. 146 ) . |
| 26 | The impact of a treaty upon a third party can range through various levels of intensity , from an actual duty accepted by a third party to perform certain acts , through to the treaty being ‘ incidentally unfavourable ’ to it . |
| 27 | Sometimes Althusser seems to imply that different histories may range through different modes of production , at other times it appears that they are specific to each , an effect of the overdetermination of the social formation . |
| 28 | The government announced this week that it planned to send 53 Japanese soldiers there next month , to help prepare for UN-sponsored elections . |
| 29 | BRITAIN 'S dairy industry must prepare for likely cutbacks of 20pc or more as the European Community moves to eliminate distorting production subsidies . |
| 30 | I can not answer for other members of the United Nations , but in our meeting last week I certainly drew attention to the necessity for ensuring that the United Nations had the right financial and material aid to complete the tasks that we have set it . |