Example sentences of "[be] make [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 2 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 3 | Inside , the columns are often from ruined Roman buildings but the capitals have been made specifically for the church and therefore the general interior scheme is more congruous than examples in Rome . |
| 4 | Full allowance must be made also for the costs of the liquidation ( to be distinguished from the costs of realising the assets ) . |
| 5 | If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances . |
| 6 | It also presents the most difficult problem for those who , like myself , are convinced on practical grounds that a sufficient case can not be made out for the restoration of capital punishment . |
| 7 | It is sobering to reflect that a case could be made out for the judgment that the last extensive exercise of the English poetic sensibility was Wordsworth 's Prelude . ’ |
| 8 | A case can be made out for the 1918 election as a Unionist victory rather than a coalition victory . |
| 9 | However , it is necessary to consider this in a little more detail , for it might be argued that a rather better case could be made out for the materialist theory than the dismissive remarks of the preceding section seem to suggest , provided certain additional facts are taken into consideration . |
| 10 | But there was no defence to be made out for the people she 'd met today . |
| 11 | Once inside , their objective would be to make directly for the basement as speedily as possible , to seize and hold the Control Room , thus preventing the detonation of the fire bombs . |
| 12 | She was not hurrying to fetch the ribbons for Miss Phoebe 's new cap which was being made especially for the Frolic . |
| 13 | Our investigations of characteristics of user establishments were made only for the private sector , since we assumed non-market forces to be of too great importance in the public sector to permit most of the relevant propositions to be tested . |
| 14 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 15 | A small charge is made locally for the use of the showers . |
| 16 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 17 | Maradona , who captains the defending World Cup champions , was quoted in several Italian newspapers yesterday as saying that ‘ World Cup groups had been predetermined and the draw was made just for the fun of the television audience ’ . |
| 18 | While Nyasha bravely went into the temple and there sitting on the throne that was made only for the chiefs there sat not a king not a prince |
| 19 | The boy was making straight for the stone , holding his stick up and making little darting glances all round him . |