Example sentences of "make [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence . |
| 2 | Good science does not necessarily make for good philosophy . |
| 3 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 4 | When it was first mooted that maybe a team of Tropical Plants staff would make for good television on Busman 's Holiday , several folk were keen to take part . |
| 5 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 6 | Of course , only the bad stories are told ; obviously , the good ones do n't make for good copy . |
| 7 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 8 | The position of BAT leaders as assessors , funders and evaluators of projects and their role as the key link to other sectors of government may make for administrative efficiency . |
| 9 | Some of my colleagues will regard this gesture on the part of the Board with pleasure that will make for whole-hearted co-operation on their part . |
| 10 | Compared with shifting coalitions of Independent councillors , party groupings can make for coherent policy planning and administration . |
| 11 | Nor did the kingship make for singleminded action on the battlefield : Sparta found ways of getting round the more obvious difficulties of dual command , but a king could always be brought to book by the oligarchic element ( the gerousia or council of elders , which was responsible for political trials ) or by the democratic — the Assembly , which could fine a king and limit his powers ( cp. p. 161 for Agis in 418 ) . |
| 12 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 13 | Erm , as well as introducing care in community we also have the joy of putting a new standard form of accounts for social services during the current year , and this is a national requirement that I think does make for logical presentation , and does differentiate between what is termed service strategy and regulation , before put management functions that you will be required to incur whether you are a direct provider of the services or not , and then the costs of actually providing or commissioning services for the various client groups . |
| 14 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 15 | This is in line with the editorial style of the magazines , and with design fashions , but it certainly does n't make for easy reading . |
| 16 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |
| 17 | The Building Regulations themselves do not make for easy reading , but there are various guides designed to explain them and the DoE now produce a Manual to the Building Regulations . |
| 18 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 19 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 20 | That might make for excellent drama — but be prepared for it . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought … ’ is the last record 8 Storey Window will make for Mad Minute . |
| 22 | I only have one general complaint about the justification of both margins with disproportionately spaced fonts ; it does make for difficult reading . |
| 23 | Differing constraint structures , we might expect , will make for different performance . |
| 24 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 25 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 26 | It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families . |
| 27 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 28 | It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom . |
| 29 | The statement that my right hon. and learned Friend made about primary education has been warmly welcomed by parents right across the country who are increasingly concerned about the methods and organisation of delivering primary education in our schools . |
| 30 | Recent controversies have resulted in the hearing of a court case against the art historian Professor James Beck from Columbia University in the US , for remarks he made about recent restoration work on a famous Italian sculpture . |