Example sentences of "[noun] make [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eddie Youds made way for sub keeper Clive Baker who held out for Ipswich 's eighth draw . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , if that 's where warmth gets you — a lonely old age , with your only pleasure making trouble for other people — then I 'm glad I 'm cold ! ’ |
| 3 | Undaunted , the 1918 Education Act made provision for local authorities to begin to open such schools for all 14–16 year-olds not otherwise engaged in full-time secondary education . |
| 4 | The LEA refused to concede , even when the parents made application for judicial review ; but when the application to the court was amended to focus on the legality of the LEA 's admissions procedures and their operation , the authority finally backed down and found places for the children at two schools where non-white pupils were firmly in the minority ( Overthorpe and Thornhill ) . |
| 5 | staple industries , " vertical " deference makes way for horizontal class-based politics post . |
| 6 | The most basic is simply to clear space on the shelves to make room for new additions to stock . |
| 7 | The association of ideas made fondness for Gentle sound like another disease , but he did n't comment on it , merely made arrangements to pick up Klein the following evening and put down the phone , plunged into a deeper trough than ever . |
| 8 | All three of these organisations make provision for non-professional as well as professional church musicians . |
| 9 | Wading knee-high in the water , they cut and collect the plants to make seats for traditional English chairs . |
| 10 | The fruitfulness of Guscott 's passing may give pause to the justified chuntering about his failure to make tries for unmarked wingers in internationals this season . |
| 11 | Ensuring that services providers make support for informal carers a high priority . |
| 12 | It is no conceded that that figure included matters which should not have been taken into consideration , such as the agency quotes mark-up unquotes and the effect of V A T. Figures making allowance for appropriate deductions but also including what I 've said by Mr to be appropriate increases totalling one hundred and sixty thous one hundred and sixty six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds , are claimed on behalf of the plaintiff . |
| 13 | The devil makes work for idle hands . |
| 14 | In medieval Christendom the appropriate saying was ‘ The devil makes work for idle hands ’ . |
| 15 | There remains truth in the adage , ’ The devil makes work for idle hands ’ ; and I assert that lack of hope is the greatest recruiting officer for all criminal activity . |
| 16 | It has also been held , obiter , that the Child Poverty Action Group ( a pressure group representing the interests of social security claimants ) has standing to make applications for judicial review of decisions in the area of social security . |
| 17 | In a review of John Betjeman 's verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells ( 1960 ) , Philip Larkin remarked approvingly that Betjeman , in his triumphant lucidity , had managed to bypass the whole light industry of exegesis ; that Eliot 's famous demand about the need of poets , in the present state of civilisation , to be difficult could only be an ingenious bit of intellectual job-creation , a Modernistic charter to make work for unemployed critics ; and that the tradition of Kipling and A. E. Housman stood ready to hand for instant revival , ever eager to prove that poetry can still enjoy a reading public if only the poet is prepared to be simple , moving and memorable . |
| 18 | Distribution charter makes way for smooth talking between depots and branches |
| 19 | In a day , several acres of rainforest can be burned down by ranchers to make space for hungry cattle . |
| 20 | Company chief David Ellwood said yesterday that his firm made nooses for British hangmen until 1964 — but had now dropped the trade . |
| 21 | " My Lady Middlesex makes Syllabubs for little glasses with spouts , thus . |
| 22 | In addition , the federal government makes grants for current purposes to the less developed regions . |
| 23 | This firm makes equipment for electrical welding that is sold all over the world . |
| 24 | To many , particularly among her own hotel staff , the prospect of Mrs Helmsley making beds for other prisoners is justice indeed . |
| 25 | 16.5 The requirements to make time for independent reading , not least as a source of pleasure , remains crucial , whatever the total curriculum demands . |
| 26 | Smiths make instruments for civil and military aircraft , and has already been hit hard by cuts in defence spending . |
| 27 | Also , Africans were expelled from some of their lands to make way for European settlers who then farmed commercially to sell their produce to the mine workers and other urban dwellers . |
| 28 | It is now a common practice for the Government to introduce supplementary estimates to make provision for unforeseen events and , on occasion , to correct errors . |
| 29 | At the end of the research , the investigator will report on the survey and interviews to policy makers and others who are in a position to make recommendations for improved teacher training and career development . |
| 30 | The English Copernican John Wilkins also found it necessary to revise concepts of biblical authority in order to make room for scientific propositions that seemed at odds with the plain meaning of Scripture . |