Example sentences of "[noun pl] make [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 The most basic is simply to clear space on the shelves to make room for new additions to stock .
3 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 .
4 All three of these organisations make provision for non-professional as well as professional church musicians .
5 Wading knee-high in the water , they cut and collect the plants to make seats for traditional English chairs .
6 Ensuring that services providers make support for informal carers a high priority .
7 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 .
8 In a day , several acres of rainforest can be burned down by ranchers to make space for hungry cattle .
9 16.5 The requirements to make time for independent reading , not least as a source of pleasure , remains crucial , whatever the total curriculum demands .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Large scale farming has ripped out hedges and woods to make way for arable crops , leaving Harwell as an oasis in the middle of the fields .
13 Because of this , the Second Chance for Women courses in Southampton have been continually investigated by local politicians , LEA advisers , university professors and HMI for signs of bias , indoctrination and extremism in ways which other courses sponsored by the university department have never been ; and despite the lip-service paid to experimental learning and Freirian praxis in the rhetoric of our leaders this does not extend any encouragement or enlightenment about attempts to make space for feminist ideas in adult education .
14 Only the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats made nominations for political services and , apart from Sir David Steel , there are just three backbench knighthoods .
15 Slums are bulldozed overnight on occasions to make way for new developments .
16 The Scottish Office consultation document on plans to dismantle the present two-tier structure of councils makes proposals for fundamental political and administrative reform in a quite cursory way , they state .
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