Example sentences of "made for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that often it was jealousy — mixed with booze — that made for a lethal cocktail , with Bogie as the stirrer . |
| 2 | It always made for a grand fightfinisher . |
| 3 | This made for a softer , more innocent and ingenuous ‘ Dora ’ , but perhaps what was needed was a slightly sharper , more bristly Dora with a hidden vulnerability , which came more naturally when I gave her a North London accent … |
| 4 | In combination with his ardent desire to improve the living standard of the British working man , this made for a potent brand of imperialism ; few politicians took the Dual Mandate more seriously than Ernest Bevin . |
| 5 | All this made for a disappointing start but I am happy to say that much else is on an altogether higher level . |
| 6 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 7 | Varese as well as Ives , and an Elliott Carter premiere — not much feminine sensibility there , though it all made for a classic Oliver Knussen pile-up of Americana , topped out with a violin concerto by Marc Neikrug that Pinchas Zukerman had brought to London for the first time . |
| 8 | They were too alike , they annoyed and inflamed each other now and then , which made for a tricky situation . |
| 9 | Green also anxiously records bouts of measles , his youngest son Thomas having fits as a baby , and Joshua being troubled with erysipelas , which made for a tiring journey for him back to Keswick . |
| 10 | This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull . |
| 11 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 12 | It made for a magnificent setting that culminated in that miracle of Verdi 's old age , the choral fugue that ends the opera , here sung with brilliant clarity and precision . |
| 13 | All in all it made for an uncomfortable meal , despite the chef 's first-class skills , and Sarella at least was pleased when it was all over and Marc , with deliberately precise timing , pushed his chair back to signal that they could now follow him out . |
| 14 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 15 | For the client , the advantage was that he could go direct to those various tradesmen who , collectively , could provide all that made for an average funeral . |
| 16 | My eldest sister had a black cauldron suspended from an old iron cooking tripod , this was filled with sawdust and packed with small gifts which made for an attractive lucky dip at tuppence a time . |