Example sentences of "[adv] make [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Set out with freshly landscaped lawns and flowerbeds , the factory was almost entirely made of one-way glass : you could see out from inside but not in from outside . |
| 6 | The minority , in particular the 1540s , also produced a concentration of the more ‘ normal ’ bonds by the magnates , hitherto made for local purposes but now reflecting the need for support in a major political crisis . |
| 7 | As the paving is all made from broken paving slabs and , therefore , all the same thickness , you simply lay it on the levelled sand bed . |
| 8 | It is one of the old dishes especially made for potted char , the freshwater fish once a celebrated delicacy of the Cumberland lake district . |
| 9 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 10 | Sun E45 from Crookes Healthcare is a new range of sunscreen lotions especially made for sensitive skins . |
| 11 | ‘ Dishonestly ’ generally means without a claim of right made in good faith . |
| 12 | Cooking pots were mostly made of fired clay . |
| 13 | The various fittings associated with the handle rarely survive as they were presumably made from organic materials . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 19 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 20 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 'm sorry , if I could just make on other point . |
| 28 | Tools , after all , extend the very possibility of humanity as productive agent , and thus make for obvious analogies with biological function . |
| 29 | Each piece is individually made in solid gold and set with the world 's finest alternative to diamonds . |
| 30 | The decision to fall into line was not made for ignoble reasons , but from financial necessity . |