Example sentences of "[not/n't] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waltz 's criticism of Kaplan to the effect that rules do not make a system invites a hermeneutic retort that nothing else possibly could in the social world . |
| 2 | The Court acknowledged that the Registry could not make a decision binding upon it in its judicial capacity . |
| 3 | Even HARPY , which brought its full syntactic and semantic knowledge to bear immediately , could not make a decision on a word-by-word basis . |
| 4 | In the current judicial climate , difficulties in categorisation should not make a decision or award in contention any more likely to be upset . |
| 5 | Governments argue that they can not make a development omelette without breaking heads . |
| 6 | Secondly it had demonstrated that the clergy were well nigh powerless against royal tax demands : if they would not make a grant , the king could outlaw them and raise the money by fines , or he could simply seize their temporalities . |
| 7 | When entrusted with government he did not make a mess of it ; if deprived of his rights he would make a much more serious opponent than the Young King . |
| 8 | J said : " The cases are quite clear that you can not make a valuer an arbitrator by calling him so or vice versa " . |
| 9 | ‘ If your own family is so badly brought up , ’ thundered a Scottish columnist , ‘ so lacking in moral fibre that it can not make a go of its marriages , what price all those Christmas homilies ? ’ |
| 10 | The court will not make a bankruptcy order unless it is satisfied that the individual can not pay his debts . |
| 11 | On the hearing of a debtor 's petition , the court must not make a bankruptcy order where the total of the debtor 's debts would be less than the " small bankruptcies level " , currently £20,000 , the minimum value of the debtor 's assets would be equal to or more than the " minimum amount " , currently £2,000 , the debtor has not been adjudicated bankrupt nor entered into any composition with his creditors or scheme of arrangement within the last five years and it would be appropriate to appoint an insolvency practitioner to prepare a report ( s 273 ) . |
| 12 | The court must not make a bankruptcy order unless it is satisfied that the debt , or one of the debts , in respect of which the petition was presented has not been paid nor secured or compounded for , or is a debt which the debtor has no reasonable prospect of being able to pay when it falls due ( s 271(1) ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Two quarters do not make a trend , ’ said a PHLS spokesperson . |
| 14 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 15 | ‘ I would not make a case for Pears to be better than Manchester United 's Peter Schmeichel , but there is no-one more consistent . |
| 16 | Is it not extraordinary therefore that in the United States where there is the most rapid growth of technology and of productivity , there are no government training schemes and does this not make a nonsense of the opposition 's repeated claim that government training schemes are the way forward ? |
| 17 | If you do not make a will , your partner has no right to look after your affairs or to inherit anything of yours . |
| 18 | If that happens you can not make a will . |
| 19 | The Intestacy Rules will govern the distribution of your property if you do not make a will . |
| 20 | This would explain Gandhi 's claim that one should not make a fetish of non-violence . |
| 21 | It is important to study the areas in which women have been neglected or in which their treatment has been biased , but one should not make a fetish about the quasi-religious , unique properties of women . |
| 22 | The acceptance of an invitation to treat does not make a contract . |
| 23 | It is well established that the courts can not make a contract for the parties . |
| 24 | Where the landlord has such a right , it is often overlooked in practice , and the landlord does not make a requirement until it is too late . |
| 25 | But , even if the All Blacks are subconsciously tempted to relegate the Irish to an after-thought , it might not make a bit of difference . |
| 26 | She thought it dry , and it was , but she could not make a dent in the downpour itself . |
| 27 | If Ricky was there Perdita might not make a scene , but he had paused to look at the front gate which needed mending . |
| 28 | ‘ If I was him , I definitely would not make a play for her . |
| 29 | You can not make a mistake . ’ |
| 30 | Incoherence per se therefore should not make a dream impossible to recall . |