Example sentences of "make [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three piece leather does make for a lot of stitching at the sides and this suffered quite badly after a few days on rough moraine . |
| 2 | His head makes little involuntary movements , the first beginnings of the small pleasurable movements which his whole body will make as a kind of modest disclaimer in the face of Harry 's approval . |
| 3 | Although bathed in a sentimentality of its own , the concept appeals to me because it reminds me of a trip I made as a student to the Maison Savoye in the summer of 1957 , when this great Corbusier villa was a ruin surrounded by waist-high grass and nettles . |
| 4 | This made for a kind of harmony and a kind of confidence . |
| 5 | He made for a line of scrub between two gates and waited until the street outside was fairly clear , then climbed the railings and dropped down . |
| 6 | The announcement of our success , subject to the specific changes agreed during the validation being made , was welcomed by all concerned but the realisation that we had now committed ourselves to commencing a new course on 5 September 1988 made for a summer of hard curriculum development work . |
| 7 | Vern made for a bench in a concrete space with trees and shrubs scattered around in pots , and sat down . |
| 8 | So her shops with their carefully designed clothes sat on top of great orders for dresses and suits that Belmodes made for a handful of big stores who marketed them under different trade names , sometimes their own , but never Belmodes . |
| 9 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 10 | As soon as we had cleared customs he made for a bank of telephones , and when he rejoined me he was smiling . |
| 11 | They are very happy places and they make for a lot of happiness with parents too I think . |
| 12 | The difference of interpretation is not some accidental effect arising from the combination of certain adjectives with particular nouns ; some phrases are subject to both interpretations : ( 9 ) his Italian diary might refer either to a diary which is Italian , perhaps in the sense that it was manufactured there , or to a record made during a journey through Italy . |
| 13 | Announcing the arrest , which was made during a raid on the offices of an Imhausen-Chemie subsidiary in Bochum near Cologne , the Cologne state prosecutor , Holger Presiendanz , said that Hippenstiel-Imhausen was " strongly suspected " of a " significant personal role in the planning and building " of the Rabta plant ( for previous report on the investigation see p. 36477 ) . |
| 14 | The alleged comments were made during a conversation with royal correspondent James Whitaker . |
| 15 | The alleged comments were made during a conversation with royal correspondent James Whitaker . |
| 16 | King Fahd 's comments , made during a visit to Saudi Arabia by Mubarak , suggested that " if President Saddam were to reconsider the matter seriously he would find that it is in Iraq 's interest , and in his interest personally , and in the interest of the Arab nation that he withdraw from Kuwait " , and that " if something wrong was done , we should not try to redress it by another wrong " . |
| 17 | Tin U's remarks , made during a visit by a group of SLORC ministers to the northern city of Mandalay , included a warning of action against people " who attack SLORC and create instability and unrest just for the sake of getting power for their party " , including public servants who were " deceiving " the government by engaging in " political intrigue " . |
| 18 | In Israel , however , a statement made during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem national shrine to Jewish victims of the Nazi holocaust declared : " We are filled with deep anxiety since it was a united Germany , under the Nazi rule , which brought upon the Jewish people the most horrendous tragedy of this generation . " |
| 19 | The offer was made during a meeting in New York between Richard Solomon , US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific , and Trinh Xuan Lang , Vietnam 's permanent representative at the UN . |
| 20 | New discoveries are constantly being made through a return to original sources . |
| 21 | In spite of six weeks of unceasing rain Wade was , by October 1732 , able to write , ‘ I still hope in a fortnight to pass the Coriarick Mountain in my coach ’ , and sure enough by the end of October the road was finished , ‘ made through a part of the country , ’ as he justly claimed in his report to the Treasury , ‘ that was scarcely passable for man or horse … now made as easy and practicable for wheel carriages as any road in the country ’ . |
| 22 | In Japanese industry , decisions are made through a process of information combination . |
| 23 | Search can be made through a number of different files at the same time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 5.9 provides for application being made for a certificate of completion , which application is to be granted if the works as completed comply with the warrant under which they were executed . |
| 26 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 27 | Provision is made for a range of access rights , entry ownership , organisation and work management . |
| 28 | I do not believe that the case has been made for a change in our policy . |
| 29 | A powerful case has been made for a change in the law . |
| 30 | Arrangements are made for a person to ‘ sit in ’ in the older person 's home . |