Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] make for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A search was made for an apt sock-it-to-him opening remark , yet nothing came . |
| 2 | Her nose was too small to balance her high flat cheekbones , and her mouth was made for a face at least two sizes larger . |
| 3 | According to an anecdote told in Herbert 's autobiography , copies of the portrait were made for the queen , for Richard Sackville , the third Earl of Dorset , and , in miniature by Isaac Oliver , for Lady Aeres ( a copy at University College , Oxford , may be one of these ) . |
| 4 | Possible tests would include testing the wheat from which the poisonous bread was made for the presence of the fungus , cultivating the fungus on some specially prepared wheat and testing the nourishing effect of the bread produced from it , chemically analysing the fungus for the presence of known poisons , and so on . |
| 5 | United 's goalscoring slowed significantly in the second half of the season , but no move was made for a striker until £1 million Dion Dublin arrived in August . |
| 6 | The Commission had taken much of its case from the evidence of the BBFC , differing only in proposing that the private exhibition of films on domestic occasions should not be subject to criminal sanction provided that no person under 16 was present and no charge was made for the exhibition or for anything provided in connection with it . |
| 7 | A charge was made for the abstraction , and this was based upon the maximum figure on the licence . |
| 8 | Although the old colours ranged widely and included deep or light red , blue , ‘ grizzle ’ and all-white , nearly all had white finching and white on the belly and face and early selection was made for the famous white face in contrast to a deep , rich red body colour set off by the white brisket , belly , legs , shoulder stripe and tail switch . |
| 9 | The parade was making for the Assembly Hall . |
| 10 | ‘ It was always planned he would come back on the bus , but when the usual head count was made for the return journey we , of course , had the same number as when we started out — without Kenny . ’ |
| 11 | My Lord the er plaintiff Mr er telephoned the National Westminster Bank the following day in order to er make an appointment to discuss the finances further and an appointment was made for the twenty second of October . |
| 12 | More important , in 1762 recruitment was made for the first time a direct concern of the government , taking it out of the hands of the regimental officers who had hitherto controlled it . |
| 13 | the Sabbath was made for the sake of man and not man for the Sabbath ( Mark 2:27 ) . |
| 14 | Decalogue V and VI , A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love were made for the cinema . |
| 15 | Man was made for the state , and not the state for the man . |
| 16 | But when allowance was made for the influences of all the other planets on Mercury then there was a residual precession unaccounted for of 43′ per century , as shown for 200 centuries in Figure 7.1 . |
| 17 | In the example of Alex in the chapter no allowance was made for the fact that an item had been in use for some time . |
| 18 | The sale of the land to the Technical School went through ( the Foundation Stone was laid on 8th September 1888 ) and a new playground for the School was made for the grand sum of £97 . |
| 19 | Lisburn Shopping Week 1930 ( BBC1 10.35pm ) a short , originally silent , film was made for the local picture house and has been preserved by the Lisburn Museum … |
| 20 | After that has been discovered the temperance reformer may decide that the corkscrew was made for a bad purpose , and the communist may think the same about the cathedral . |
| 21 | Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost . |
| 22 | The site suggests that considerable preparation was made for the uprising . |
| 23 | The present larger chapel in High Street was opened in 1878 and provision was made for a Sunday school behind it in 1883 . |
| 24 | Normally provision was made for a 0.303″ Lewis gun to be mounted on a Scarf gun ring in the three gun position on Iris IIIs , but S1593 had the bow cockpit enlarged to house a 37mm COW gun . |
| 25 | Provision was made for a crew of five ; pilot and co-pilot side-by-side in an open cockpit , a flight engineer , wireless-operator and gunner . |
| 26 | Voluntary schools were given the choice of becoming ‘ aided ’ or ‘ controlled ’ schools and provision was made for a few ‘ special agreement ’ schools ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 27 | There was also much legal debate over the intention not to allow divorce unless adequate and proper provision was made for the dependants . |
| 28 | No provision was made for the payment of special rates in order to retain the services of particularly talented people . |
| 29 | During fitting out , provision was made for the whole floor ( which includes What Personal Computer 's sister titles — PC User and Which Computer ? ) to be properly cabled up , ready to be networked . |
| 30 | No provision was made for the payment to Co-operative retail stores of dividends on their purchases from the Agency . |