Example sentences of "[vb infin] for a more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enormous contribution made throughout history — particularly in the arts — to society by homosexuals should surely make for a more tolerant and sympathetic understanding than to refer with such scorn to Wilde 's ‘ abnormal and filthy practises ’ . |
| 2 | Some of the procedures of discourse analysis will make for a more profound examination of this process . |
| 3 | I promise it will make for a more positive atmosphere around you . |
| 4 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 5 | But Richard Ingham , managing director of Beacham Peplow Noakes Advertising says he would opt for a more down-to-earth approach . |
| 6 | It was a silent final , one of the decisive points being David Smith 's decision to quietly take an easy single at the fourth end rather than wait for a more decisive 2 at the later end . |
| 7 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 8 | We can not now implement the whole of that programme and must look for a more concessive approach , capable of accommodating the competing strengths of individualism . |
| 9 | Ideal , say , for a university library building up stock — particularly if secondhand wants lists were being compiled — though someone revising the history stock at a small public library service point would look for a more selective tool . |
| 10 | Secondly , institutional changes have also been introduced which hopefully will provide for a more cooperative relationship between the Council of Ministers and the EP . |
| 11 | The soft conventionalist could search for a more abstract consensus yet . |
| 12 | We could hardly wish for a more graphic portrayal of the son who is tied to his domineering , aggressive mother by ties of love , but who has to be a hero in the eyes of the world to prove his masculine worth . |
| 13 | Mr Brown said he really could n't wish for a more destructive class . |
| 14 | I could n't ask for a more caring and loving bunch of people . |
| 15 | And our members did ask for a more detailed report on the scheme , and this , this report er , set out that scheme in er , in a fuller way . |
| 16 | You could hardly ask for a more exhilarating way to kick off the week 's traces . |
| 17 | A characteristically political perspective would argue for a more articulated view of the complexity of centre-periphery relationships than either pluralism or Marxism can provide but would also warn against imposition of a single political model such as corporatism . |