Example sentences of "[verb] n't make " in BNC.

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1 I then wonder why some enterprising manufacturer has n't made a cheap engineer 's lathe as an alternative to the old-fashioned wood lathe .
2 ‘ We have attempted to translate the report we requested from the French , but because of our linguistic inability it has n't made complete sense , ’ Edward Jones , the acting secretary of the WRU , said .
3 ‘ When he did n't come , ’ she said , ‘ I thought He has n't made it , he has n't made Jack 's party .
4 ‘ When he did n't come , ’ she said , ‘ I thought He has n't made it , he has n't made Jack 's party .
5 This 40 Minutes Special ( BBC 2 ) was produced by Agnieszka Piotrowska , who never makes a bad programme and has n't made a better one than this .
6 Mr Horacio Paredes , the Malacanang spokesman , said yesterday : ‘ Mrs Marcos has n't made any effort to seek formal permission .
7 He has n't made a semblance of a mistake .
8 Sex between teachers and their pupils has n't made ‘ issue ’ status yet — but it is clearly on the way .
9 Do n't tell me he has n't made a set at your pretty mistress ! ’
10 Selling off an organisation that has n't made a profit for 40 years always looked like being the toughest possible test of the privatisers ' skills , and recent developments are not making things any easier
11 And could be that other Blake-Dax goodies are on the way — though this one has n't made it out of rumoursville at present .
12 But at least the lure of some extra greenbacks has n't made his recent records so disappointing .
13 ‘ Look at Peter Gabriel , who does in fact get slagged off , and f—ing right and all , but he has n't made an album for six years which is longer than me , but he 's a current performer whereas I 'm an old lag who 's coming back .
14 The administration has n't made up its mind yet , saying only that they will be two independent entities ; those that have been briefed say that they will not be the National Security Agency or the law enforcement agencies .
15 ‘ He has n't made clear his views on free trade , which is of acute interest to the technology business , ’ Gates said .
16 He has n't made contact .
17 It 's no longer merely a handful of advocates who wonder why someone with such high-calibre material has n't made a bigger dent in the global public 's consciousness .
18 Perhaps it 's something about the way I live , but love has n't made any mark before .
19 I bet the Superintendent has n't made up his mind about that yet , not judging by the tone of his questions . ’
20 ‘ Then I do hope your devotion to duty has n't made you late for some pressing engagement , ’ he added suavely .
21 Windows NT has been dubbed ‘ Windows Not There ’ by some cynics , because it has n't made an appearance on the marketplace yet , but when it arrives , it ought to have many of the better features of OS/2 version 2 , and , if my information is correct , be able to run programs for that environment as well as native Windows programs and DOS applications .
22 Esperanto has n't made it anywhere yet .
23 It is also wrong to say that ‘ Esperanto has n't made it anywhere yet ’ .
24 ‘ It — has n't made me very popular in some quarters . ’
25 as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position .
26 And now he 's gone , and it … it really has n't made that much difference . ’
27 ‘ Seems a shame she has n't made a comeback before , ’ he said genially .
28 I know it 's early days yet , but White has n't made the kind of impact we 'd hoped for .
29 ‘ She has n't made a film in five years . ’
30 It has n't made a bit of difference
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