Example sentences of "make [pron] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then I do hope your devotion to duty has n't made you late for some pressing engagement , ’ he added suavely . |
| 2 | And in the West , the situation will require exceptional skills on the part of our present leaders — especially in West Germany , where a string of elections over the next 12 months will make it hard for those in power to preserve the calm and objectivity with which all these questions need to be discussed . |
| 3 | Years later , 1948 tourist Doug Ring , speaking at a dinner , thanked George Tribe for not making it back for that crucial pre-tour season . |
| 4 | The judge may ask open , vague questions , affording the interviewee plenty of rope to hang himself or herself ; for instance , ‘ Tell me all about yourself ’ , which means , of course , ‘ Tell me specific information about yourself that makes you right for this job . ’ |
| 5 | Other theories on the origin or evolution of syphilis and the other diseases caused by similar organisms suggest that different populations have their own endemic treponemal disease , be it yaws , pinta , or syphilis , the presence of which makes it hard for one of the others to establish itself . |
| 6 | First , a confusing jumble of federal and state laws makes it hard for most banks to sell insurance , and almost impossible to underwrite it . |
| 7 | Many interviewers , however , work for more than one company , which makes it hard for any individual company to implement standards different from the rest . |
| 8 | In both cases the behaviour is not completely predictable , but observation for only a short time makes it so for all subsequent times . ) |