Example sentences of "[pers pn] make [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elephants have bigger brains than humans but , probably with some justice , we like to think that we are cleverer than elephants and that our brains are ‘ really ’ bigger if you make allowance for the fact that we are much smaller animals . |
| 2 | When you get to the small conglomeration of villages called , variously , Lecumberry , Men dive and Béhorléguy , you make half-left for the Col d'Aphanize and beyond it Ahusquy . |
| 3 | ‘ But if you make trouble for the O'Malleys , ’ Gerry said , ‘ the police will blame Brogan , Kerrigan and Mullen . |
| 4 | He looked quite normal , however , and we made conversation for a while , although he seemed to be thinking of something else . |
| 5 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 6 | On a bend of the Colorado river we made camp for a month . |
| 7 | When we make love for the second time this throbbing afternoon it is like lingering over liqueurs by a log fire . |
| 8 | We make camp for the night in earshot of Crystal Rapid , which in recent years has flipped more boats , taken more lives , and humbled more boatmen than any other on the river . |
| 9 | The examinations , tailored to be selective , make no concession to this , nor do they make allowance for the wide range of academic ability and preparedness among the candidates . |
| 10 | They made music for the love of it . |
| 11 | They made allowance for a stale price effect in the index ( by including a first order moving average process ) , and used a GARCH ( 1,1 ) model to control for autocorrelation in the variance of the disturbances . |
| 12 | They made room for the Russian . |
| 13 | They made employment for a workforce and were used in the work of other occupations ; but mainly they were used for recreation . |
| 14 | Well they , they just you know they they just have this erm craft sort of , they do stall and and they make stuff for the shop they had he had a couple of retail shops , he had a factory yeah I think he said he had fifty two people working for him . |
| 15 | These new arrangements contain two important features : they allow institutions to propose variations from normal validation arrangements ; and they make provision for the granting of discretion to institutions to make modifications to approved courses within agreed limits . |
| 16 | They make leather for the clothing industry and the international recession has taken its toll . |
| 17 | And last night Tory MPs were openly warning that , unless he managed a spectacular recovery , and got a grip , Mr Major would be forced like Lady Thatcher before him to make way for a new leader . |
| 18 | And last night Tory MPs were openly warning that , unless he managed a spectacular recovery , and got a grip , Mr Major would be forced like Lady Thatcher before him to make way for a new leader . |
| 19 | The EFA should therefore be a prime target for spending cuts , but at the same time , does n't it make sense for the Government to ‘ bite the bullet ’ on another contentious issue , viz. the future of the Rosyth dockyard ? |
| 20 | As a major ‘ consumer ’ of overhauled piston engines for its own fleet , it made sense for the Atlantic Group to extend their activities to engine overhaul . |
| 21 | Under the astute leadership of its general secretary , Bruce Kent , it made room for the various local and single-issue groups that were mushrooming around the country . |
| 22 | And he that searches the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the spirit because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of god . |
| 23 | ‘ It makes sense for the United States . |
| 24 | In the meantime it makes sense for the unit to be stored in a plastic bag but I do look forward to the perfectly waterproof receiver being available in due course . |
| 25 | People are not only responsible for something , they are responsible to God , other individuals , society or themselves , and this latter Kantian notion is derived from the primary social context in which it makes sense for the concept of responsibility to be invoked . |
| 26 | In terms of selection theory it makes sense for an incoming male to kill the young , for the females then come into oestrus quickly and he can get his genes into the assembly line at the earliest opportunity . |
| 27 | The strange fact that the 1693 playbook leaves out the whole of the first 1692 scene ( the scene with the Duke , Egeus and the Lovers ) can only be accounted for , I believe , as a printing-house convenience , since it makes room for the inclusion at the end of Act I of the new episode of the Drunken Poets . |