Example sentences of "not make [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She raged to Ferdinando about this Dr Grisanowsky , and even the assurance that he was a friend of Miss Blagden 's did not make him more acceptable in her eyes . |
| 2 | However , despite some change in secondary selection , it remains the case , most remarkably , that though wartime and free education made the arguments of economy , fairness and impartiality more applicable they did not make them universally acceptable . |
| 3 | Even retrofitting of flue gas desulphurisation at the big coal stations would not make them more expensive than some gas burn . |
| 4 | ‘ Just because they are small does not make them less precious . |
| 5 | That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared . |
| 6 | These emerged as the movement represented by the Enlightenment itself became more self-critical and less brashly confident in its own rationalism ; but that does not make them any the less significant or challenging for theology . |
| 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 | But however effective these arguments may be in political debate , that does not make them necessarily adequate as theoretical explanations of racism . |
| 9 | Welfare rights services , for example could be defined in a variety of ways which may not make them readily understandable . |
| 10 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 11 | This will not make me too popular at the Richmond Athletic Ground or Sunbury and it 'll probably not happen anyway . |
| 12 | She was astounded , and did not make me much wiser . ’ |
| 13 | Your German and French are undoubtedly of value , but it must be remembered that this would not make you instantly preferable to , say , a German organisation with a manufacturing interest in Czechoslovakia over a fluent German speaker who is a Czech national or vice versa . |
| 14 | It may not make you very popular with the queue behind you in the post office , but if it helps you that does not matter . |
| 15 | Its frequency however does not make it right . |
| 16 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 17 | I have suggested that it can be shown to be fair or just to do so ; but this may not make it right if some other principle of greater weight is involved . |
| 18 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 19 | ‘ But it does not make it right . |
| 20 | Vehemently , she added , ‘ But that does not make it right ! |
| 21 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 22 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 23 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 24 | They need to know that they can give you your professional , their professional attention they will not make it compulsively , the majority party of what went wrong this is you were no longer the majority party . |
| 25 | To profit , the PROFITBOSS can not make it all himself . |
| 26 | If straw is used as a fuel , will that not make it much more expensive to the horse fraternity ? |
| 27 | This does not make it any the less disturbing and below we will discuss contemporary styles of delinquency in greater detail . |
| 28 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 29 | On the other hand , the fact that a threat is couched in polite and regretful language does not make it any less a threat , and there is little value in the distinction which has been suggested between a warning and a threat . |
| 30 | Whilst the issue of ‘ crimes of the powerful ’ , to use Pearce 's ( 1976 ) evocative phrase , is now often portrayed as a left-wing cliche , this does not make it any the less a problem . |