Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] not make " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words did not make sense at all . |
| 2 | In France the news was the main topic of conversation in cafes and restaurants but President Mitterrand did not make an official statement . |
| 3 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 4 | Bridgend4 BRIDGEND simply could not win enough quality possession in their Schweppes Welsh Cup quarter-final at Rodney Parade on Saturday , and though Newport did not make the most of their chances they still won fairly comfortably . |
| 5 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |
| 6 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 7 | They had the moral flexibility to meet shifting organizational demands and still enjoy the sleep of the just — their ability to relativize other moral imperatives whilst constantly prioritizing the pursuit of organizational goals did not make them necessarily immoral , but it did facilitate a moral flexibility others denied themselves . |
| 8 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 9 | Although she understood J. C. Ibbetson well , Rotha Mary Clay did not make any reference to Green in her book on Ibbetson . |
| 10 | However , he said the defendant did not make any admissions and that those two interviews would be assessed along with the four interviews the previous day . |
| 11 | Pitting my brain against Mr Kent 's maths test did not make me happy . |
| 12 | Whatever the mitigating circumstances — the heat , effects of jetlag and an injury to Mark Appleson — Scotland did not make a very good fist of it on Saturday when they lost their pool match to Western Samoa and were then tumbled out of the plate 38-5 by New Zealand . |
| 13 | He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination . |
| 14 | 2.10:ONE of the surprises of last season was that former runaway Cesarewitch winner TRAINGLOT did not make an immediate impression at the winter game . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Purcell did not make extensive changes for the Fairy Queen revival — and indeed he had two excellent reasons not to . |
| 17 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 18 | Carolyn and Alan did not make love again until they were married . |
| 19 | Although South Korea did not make an official response to the preconditions — all of which it had rejected in the past — it did agreed to suspend its pursuit of membership of the UN until the two Korean states had discussed the issue further . |
| 20 | Contrary to tradition , Constantine did not make Christianity the official state religion of Rome . |
| 21 | Corporate management did not make councils more managerial . |
| 22 | The County Council also accepted as part of this oral approach that there was a need for an alteration to the structure plan , because the approved structure plan did not make provision for a new settlement as an element of approved North Yorkshire strategic policy , and we 've progressed that erm alteration through to the examination er in public er today . |
| 23 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 24 | Paul Walton , of James Capel , complained that the Chancellor did not make big enough increases in spending in the right areas . |
| 25 | Olsen had called Leeds ( Wilko i guess ) and expressed his concern about Frank and inquiring why Frank did not make it . |
| 26 | Wealth did not make him lavish , however ; he had always been careful about money — indeed , he was economical in all areas of life , even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea-pot had actually been drunk — and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook . |
| 27 | But it may well be that , like Whistler , Mr Rocke did not make notes but simply took a steady look and remembered . |
| 28 | These limitations did not make rapid movement impossible , as Marlborough showed in 1704 and Frederick II in 1757 ; but they ensured that it should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 29 | An enormous amount of meaning would disappear if speakers and hearers did not make heavy use of affective cues — like tone of voice , hesitating and hedging . |
| 30 | The agency was forced to reverse its decision under legal pressure from the steel industry , largely because the NAAQSs for suspended particulates did not make a distinction between particulate sizes , even though smaller particles are known to be more harmful . |