Example sentences of "[adv] make [prep] [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is one of the old dishes especially made for potted char , the freshwater fish once a celebrated delicacy of the Cumberland lake district . |
| 8 | ‘ Dishonestly ’ generally means without a claim of right made in good faith . |
| 9 | Cooking pots were mostly made of fired clay . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 13 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 14 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 'm sorry , if I could just make on other point . |
| 22 | Each piece is individually made in solid gold and set with the world 's finest alternative to diamonds . |
| 23 | The total number of discrepant records was 75 ( 15% of those not made on multiple entry days ) , and 75% of patients made at least one ( 1–9 ) discrepant entry . |
| 24 | Fenella saw , with a thrill of horror , that as his hand went through the colours , the robes shivered as if they were not made of plain cloth , but of some living , breathing substance . |
| 25 | The most amusing of these is the suggestion that pikemen worse short buff-coats made from imported buffalo leather from America , while in fact pikemen did not wear buff-coats , and the buff-coats which were worn by cavalry troopers were not made of American buffalo leather but local oxhide . |
| 26 | If there are nine straight lines in the figure , then interpreting it as a drawing of a box means , among other things , thinking that the box is not made of transparent material . |
| 27 | Not made of coloured crêpe paper , faded , dusty and crinkled on bent wire stems like Mrs Parvis had in her parlour . |
| 28 | He handed it and his sunhat back to the fuming bowler , who felt the gesture was not made with due courtesy . |
| 29 | In the latter case , but not the former , the society is responsible if the report is not made with due care and skill by its employee . |
| 30 | This statement about declining standards is not made with particular reference to sexual behaviour . |