Example sentences of "be make [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 2 | It also presents the most difficult problem for those who , like myself , are convinced on practical grounds that a sufficient case can not be made out for the restoration of capital punishment . |
| 3 | It is sobering to reflect that a case could be made out for the judgment that the last extensive exercise of the English poetic sensibility was Wordsworth 's Prelude . ’ |
| 4 | A case can be made out for the 1918 election as a Unionist victory rather than a coalition victory . |
| 5 | However , it is necessary to consider this in a little more detail , for it might be argued that a rather better case could be made out for the materialist theory than the dismissive remarks of the preceding section seem to suggest , provided certain additional facts are taken into consideration . |
| 6 | But there was no defence to be made out for the people she 'd met today . |
| 7 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 8 | Crilly has tidied the flat , and my bed is made up for a queen with extra duvets and fluffy pillows . |
| 9 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |