Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] make for the " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 A charge was made for the abstraction , and this was based upon the maximum figure on the licence .
5 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 .
6 The parade was making for the Assembly Hall .
7 ‘ 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 the Sabbath was made for the sake of man and not man for the Sabbath ( Mark 2:27 ) .
11 Decalogue V and VI , A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love were made for the cinema .
12 Man was made for the state , and not the state for the man .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 …
17 The site suggests that considerable preparation was made for the uprising .
18 There was also much legal debate over the intention not to allow divorce unless adequate and proper provision was made for the dependants .
19 No provision was made for the payment of special rates in order to retain the services of particularly talented people .
20 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 .
21 No provision was made for the payment to Co-operative retail stores of dividends on their purchases from the Agency .
22 For example , some educational provision was made for the handicapped child once the universal state education system showed the need .
23 Some provision was made for the giving of legal advice by salaried solicitors outside the ambit of private practice in the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 , but the part of the Act which would have established full-time paid solicitors located at the Legal Aid Area Headquarters and travelling to smaller places was never brought into force .
24 Provision was made for the setting up of voluntary schools .
25 B.1.1 put the Purchaser into the position which would have existed had such matter been as so warranted , represented or undertaken by paying to the Purchaser a sum equal to the amount by which the value or amount at Completion of any assets or liabilities of the Business ( computed for this purpose on the basis that full provision was made for the facts and circumstances in relation to which such breach arose ) was less or ( as the case may be ) more than the value or amount at Completion of such assets or liabilities ( computed on the assumption that the facts and circumstances had been such as to involve no such breach ) together with all costs and expenses incurred or any other loss or damage suffered by the Purchaser as a result of such breach ; or ( if the Purchaser shall so elect ) .
26 The award was made for the development of the Vortoil hydrocyclone unit for separating oil droplets from water .
27 A secret agreement was made for the marriage to continue only after the Queen held the most extraordinary royal meeting in history in her drawing room at Windsor Castle when the monarch personally saved the marriage .
28 There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed .
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