Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] make [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we seek historically aware performances in this repertory , should we not be seeking to make informed decisions about tempos and their relationships ( and consequent effects on inequality ) by considering the available evidence of mensural traditions , time-words and notated timings , rather than ignoring it ? |
| 2 | Fastness to light may be a problem , but this does not mean that they can not be used to make finished pieces . |
| 3 | Referendums can not be used to make significant changes in the voting system for the lower house of parliament . |
| 4 | On the eve of the IAEA visit Argentina announced that it was cancelling an US$18 million deal to supply nuclear equipment to Iran , because of a lack of safeguards to ensure it would not be used to make nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | Aguirre , previously thought of as one of the President 's most loyal officers , described it as " unfair and unjust " and stated that a leader who was incapable of " making a just and proper decision over a simple matter such as appointments can not be expected to make correct decisions about the complex affairs of state " . |
| 6 | The Swedish Prime Minister , Carl Bildt , justly complained that ‘ membership has unspecified potential obligations ’ , and that Sweden thus could not be expected to make binding assurances that she would participate in a common defence policy which has not yet been defined . |
| 7 | Agonising about the Gold Standard decision , he wrote to his Controller of Finance at the Treasury , Sir Otto Niemayer : So one might ask whether by maintaining high interest rates to support the value of the pound against the Deutschmark , the British people were not being required to make untold sacrifices to match German interest rates , whose levels were in part at least caused by that country 's need to rebuild her eastern provinces . |