Example sentences of "[adv] make for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 2 | Good science does not necessarily make for good philosophy . |
| 3 | But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence . |
| 4 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 5 | It is one of the old dishes especially made for potted char , the freshwater fish once a celebrated delicacy of the Cumberland lake district . |
| 6 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |
| 7 | The Building Regulations themselves do not make for easy reading , but there are various guides designed to explain them and the DoE now produce a Manual to the Building Regulations . |
| 8 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 9 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 10 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 11 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 12 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 13 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 14 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 15 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 16 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 17 | It 's just chat — how 's the family , here 's the latest joke , how 's it going — and that somehow makes for great entertainment . |
| 18 | Provision for deferred tax is only made for any differences when they are expected to reverse in the foreseeable future , and no provision is usually made for deferred tax assets . |
| 19 | Lumping all screen violence together , Gladiators , Tom and Jerry and Rugby Special hardly makes for disciplined analysis . |
| 20 | The details of the accidents also make for interesting analysis . |
| 21 | Suggestions are also made for antiphonal singing . |
| 22 | Prisoner of War escape stories often make for interesting reading and Ten Minutes To Buffalo by Ulrich Stienhilper and Peter Osborne is no exception . |
| 23 | This is in line with the editorial style of the magazines , and with design fashions , but it certainly does n't make for easy reading . |
| 24 | Of course , only the bad stories are told ; obviously , the good ones do n't make for good copy . |
| 25 | This system was devised not just with political but with military arrangements in view , and this is another way in which city and countryside were brought together : the demes and trittyes were often arranged along , and clustered at the ends of , the strategic highways of Attica , thereby making for easy mobilization , with the agora of Athens as the place of muster . |
| 26 | This sometimes made for superficial complication ; the Third Republic conferred no titles of nobility , yet more were used than ever before in France , thanks to the inflation and confusion of aristocracies which had flowed from the creations of Bourbon , Orleanist and two Imperial régimes . |
| 27 | There is an other-worldly quality to this performance that when listened to cumulatively makes for compulsive listening . |
| 28 | Job descriptions never make for exciting reading , no matter how exciting the job ( and the Profitboss always aims to make his people 's jobs exciting ) . |
| 29 | This approach has much to be said for it , and certainly makes for equal treatment for shareholders , creditors and third parties , and equal terms in these respects for establishment in each member state . |