Example sentences of "not make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel that it could be boxed in by bureacracy and not make much contribution to a company 's performance . ’ |
| 2 | In Madrid the NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner told legislators attending a five-day annual NATO assembly on Oct. 21 that , while " an additional independent European force " would " not make practical sense " , a European force co-ordinated by the Western European Union ( WEU ) could prove valuable in areas outside NATO 's traditional field . |
| 3 | This positive part of conventionalism most plainly corresponds to the popular slogan that judges should follow the law and not make new laws in its place . |
| 4 | and not make other do n't start reproduction . |
| 5 | I hope that hon. Members will ask questions about the White Paper and not make wider points . |
| 6 | Why did Van Gogh not make that the centre ? |
| 7 | You should check that your doctor approves of the measures suggested here , and not make any substantial changes to the child ‘ s diet , or your own ( if breast feeding ) , without medical supervision . |
| 8 | This price would cover costs , but not make any profit . |
| 9 | At that time there were no instructions laid down for dealing with the radio pirate vessels and , although this particular vessel was outside territorial waters , there was no reason why a cutter should not make reasonable enquiries from vessels in close proximity to our coast . |
| 10 | At this height , if you do not make efficient use of any lift you find , you will be down . |
| 11 | The ‘ new ’ auditor/adviser can not make professional enquiry in such circumstances as there is no one to contact . |
| 12 | Desire and reason do not make good bed-mates , for where reason tries to control the world , desire is aware of the vastness of life , which it knows it can never control . |
| 13 | The closure of the bridge did not make good economic sense for the Poles , but their demolition of the bridge in 1928 made even less sense . |
| 14 | ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’ |
| 15 | But this principle does not constrain the courts to invent an ambiguity or to construe an ambiguity in a way which does not make good sense . |
| 16 | I did not make good that afternoon . |
| 17 | There are other omissions , too , which Purcell did not make good , quite apart from the dances which Shedlock noted were missing — the overture , for one . |
| 18 | They do not make many . |
| 19 | A scissors-and-paste job on the existing curriculum — which removed masculinist language , substituted female examples and models , deleted stereotypes or debasing images — would provide a superficially ‘ non-sexist ’ transmission process , but it would not make many inroads into the valuation of , or boundaries around , such knowledge areas at present designated ‘ home economics ’ or ‘ applied maths ’ , or , indeed , have any direct effect on the hidden curriculum . |
| 20 | So the choreographer can not make strong contrasts between the style usually used for the other-worldly spirits and that used for the characters living in the particular setting . |
| 21 | The man who can not make eight or ten bales at least has almost no object in life and nothing to live on . ’ |
| 22 | Similarly , it appears that managers for the most part do not make strategic decisions . |
| 23 | It did not make pleasant listening and most of it was unrepeatable . |
| 24 | Second , trust presupposes a conscious and reasoned decision by the patient which , in fact , may be beyond many patients who , through pain , the effect of drugs , or unconsciousness , can not make such decisions . |
| 25 | I can not make such a promise . |
| 26 | Why , even the executives — clever men , ambitious men , men with briefcases full of management accounts and demographics — can not make such a promise . |
| 27 | A person detained involuntarily may not make such a declaration ( 1983 Act , s.7 ) . |
| 28 | Although many people do not make such a dramatic move from a very special garden to a flat , most of us leave a few favourite plants behind when we move house , so framing a few of them serves as a lovely reminder of times gone by . |
| 29 | His nature is love and love does not make such demands . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the Fipa , and the Zapotec do not make such a distinction meaningful . |