Example sentences of "[noun sg] make [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if that 's where warmth gets you — a lonely old age , with your only pleasure making trouble for other people — then I 'm glad I 'm cold ! ’ |
| 2 | Undaunted , the 1918 Education Act made provision for local authorities to begin to open such schools for all 14–16 year-olds not otherwise engaged in full-time secondary education . |
| 3 | staple industries , " vertical " deference makes way for horizontal class-based politics post . |
| 4 | The fruitfulness of Guscott 's passing may give pause to the justified chuntering about his failure to make tries for unmarked wingers in internationals this season . |
| 5 | The devil makes work for idle hands . |
| 6 | In medieval Christendom the appropriate saying was ‘ The devil makes work for idle hands ’ . |
| 7 | There remains truth in the adage , ’ The devil makes work for idle hands ’ ; and I assert that lack of hope is the greatest recruiting officer for all criminal activity . |
| 8 | It has also been held , obiter , that the Child Poverty Action Group ( a pressure group representing the interests of social security claimants ) has standing to make applications for judicial review of decisions in the area of social security . |
| 9 | In a review of John Betjeman 's verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells ( 1960 ) , Philip Larkin remarked approvingly that Betjeman , in his triumphant lucidity , had managed to bypass the whole light industry of exegesis ; that Eliot 's famous demand about the need of poets , in the present state of civilisation , to be difficult could only be an ingenious bit of intellectual job-creation , a Modernistic charter to make work for unemployed critics ; and that the tradition of Kipling and A. E. Housman stood ready to hand for instant revival , ever eager to prove that poetry can still enjoy a reading public if only the poet is prepared to be simple , moving and memorable . |
| 10 | Distribution charter makes way for smooth talking between depots and branches |
| 11 | Company chief David Ellwood said yesterday that his firm made nooses for British hangmen until 1964 — but had now dropped the trade . |
| 12 | In addition , the federal government makes grants for current purposes to the less developed regions . |
| 13 | This firm makes equipment for electrical welding that is sold all over the world . |
| 14 | At the end of the research , the investigator will report on the survey and interviews to policy makers and others who are in a position to make recommendations for improved teacher training and career development . |
| 15 | The English Copernican John Wilkins also found it necessary to revise concepts of biblical authority in order to make room for scientific propositions that seemed at odds with the plain meaning of Scripture . |
| 16 | The manager provides staff with the opportunity to make requests for annual leave . |
| 17 | In the art field of late nineteenth-century Paris , then , in the delimited field , bohemians of the avant-garde made paintings for other bohemian and avant-garde painters . |