Example sentences of "[noun sg] does [adv] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the Giggs/Kelly incident at the beginning of the game it looked like a perfectly fair challenge after all it 's not as if Girly Pallyster does n't make contact with the person he 's marking ( and that 's in both senses of the word marking ) . |
| 2 | As for the Giggs/Kelly incident at the beginning of the game it looked like a perfectly fair challenge after all it 's not as if Girly Pallyster does n't make contact with the person he 's marking ( and that 's in both senses of the word marking ) . |
| 3 | Buying a horse with clean x-ray plates a ) avoids buying trouble , and b ) if the horse does not make the grade , and you need to sell , there is less chance of running into problems during the next purchaser 's vetting . ! |
| 4 | Confidence is coming back to Oxford United … three games without defeat does n't make a season but it does build the foundations for the future … tomorrow it 's Leicester City away … no changes to a winning team … the only fresh face is Paul Wanless he takes over from Dave Penney on the bench … form favours Leicester but they were beaten by Stoke last week … and Oxford are on a high … |
| 5 | Two times half a car does not make a car . |
| 6 | Diners Club claims its customers ' average transactions are higher than those of other charge cards , but this is difficult to substantiate as Diners Club does not make figures available . |
| 7 | The Daily Mail does not make any reference to The Fox at all . |
| 8 | Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black . |
| 9 | Yeah , but eating does n't make any difference anyway does it ? |
| 10 | [ It should be noted that the rule does not make clear that the form incorporates the notice . ] |
| 11 | Richard Morris , Director for the Council for British Archaeology , welcomes the proposals : ‘ In archaeological terms the emphasis on gold and silver does not make sense as archaeologists are just as interested in leather and wood ’ . |
| 12 | However , it is felt that the department does not make full use of its obvious potential . |
| 13 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 14 | The fact that the changes will give us a stronger , better Bank and a better place in which to work does n't make their impact any easier to bear . |
| 15 | The law does n't make it that easy , quite apart from making you prove her infidelity ( she may deny it ) . |
| 16 | The fact that in this case the transfer is trans-phonemic whereas the other cases are usually tensing rules within the same phoneme does not make any difference . |
| 17 | ‘ The Act does not make it criminal to use offensive or disgusting behaviour whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . |
| 18 | Although the Act does not make reference to the current climate of opinion about sexual explicitness , juries in obscenity trials are enjoined to keep in mind the current standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 19 | The passage does not make conspicuous use of logical and referential links between sentences : for example , there are no cross-referring demonstratives or linking adverbials , and few third-person pronouns 38 ) . |
| 20 | The town council does not make laws , it only administers them . |
| 21 | The Regional Council does not make the claim suggested , but is satisfied that , against the Structure Plan targets , the continuing effects of the recession and the continuing levels of build involving infill and Livingston , the requirements for a five year land supply are met . |
| 22 | To all the idiots who wrote almost identical letters claiming that the mere adoption of the Union flag does n't make Morrissey a racist — of course it does n't , nobody ever said it did . |
| 23 | The surviving correspondence does not make clear what happened to Mr. Carrick , but as Glassford had by the time of election three votes prepared and George Abercromby defeated Major Dundas , it may be surmised that Lord Dundas 's failure to secure the reinstatement of the collector of Inverness was seen by Glassford as a neglect which justified his remaining friendly with Abercromby . |
| 24 | ‘ A whole lot in this mess does n't make sense , ’ said Odell . |
| 25 | So wealth does n't make the people happy . |
| 26 | In dieting , failure does not make us try harder . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , the facts do n't automatically combine to produce the truth , and the truth does n't make it easier to understand . |
| 28 | The consensus group does not make clear that its recommendations are based on its interpretation of the widely available literature . |
| 29 | Mullineux does not make it clear , however , what the advantages would be of dismantling the Bank of England and the major functions being carried out by the private sector , indeed it is difficult to see of any real benefits , although the disadvantages could be major . |
| 30 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |