Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all cases the necessity of balancing professional and academic requirements has been recognised , with the inexorable move toward a ‘ graduate ’ profession being accepted responsibly , though more slowly than for similar professions : ‘ It is a matter for concern that , compared with other professions surveying has not made a greater impact upon university life and thought in general ’ ( Wells Report , 1960 ) . |
| 2 | She looked relaxed at a Guildhall lunch but a spokesman said : ‘ She has no plans to travel to Scotland at present but she has not made a final decision . ’ |
| 3 | The second fact is that Labour , despite the recession and its junking of almost all the policies that made it unelectable in the '80s , has not made a significant advance . |
| 4 | ‘ Technology thrives by taking the best elements of technology from countries around the world , so free trade is absolutely crucial , but so far he has not made a clear stand on free trade . ’ |
| 5 | Marwood has failed to win a regular place at Bramall Lane since his £300,000 transfer from Arsenal two years ago and has not made a single appearance this season . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The evidence presented above does not make a strong case tor substantial changes in Britain following the episode of Magnentius , but there is a sufficient number of indicators , at least , to suggest that the proposition can not be dismissed . |
| 9 | ‘ A contract does not make a great deal of difference . |
| 10 | Er now I would suggest that if somebody does not make a single spelling mistake and it or or grammatically error and it 's perfectly well presented give them full five marks okay . |
| 11 | ( One does n't make a mild curry hot just by upping the number of chillies . ) |
| 12 | There 's a raging controversy right now about which guitars sustain better — a glued-on neck , a neck through body or a bolt-on — when in my opinion it does n't make a damn bit of difference . |
| 13 | There 's a raging controversy right now about which guitars sustain better — a glued-on neck , a neck through body or a bolt-on — when in my opinion it does n't make a damn bit of difference . |
| 14 | 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 . |