Example sentences of "not make [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 not make them an enormous feature .
2 Because they put 3 passes together 4 years ago does not make them a footballing side and they are only making friends now cos they are an easy touch .
3 Feeling guilty does not make me a better person .
4 Being restricted here does not make me a special case , though .
5 And by , becoming religious and observing religious , er , practices does not make us a better person .
6 Even this thing you say you did — even that does not make you a bad man .
7 Personally , I reject the Oxford claim that English Literature begins with Anglo-Saxon , and would not make it a required subject .
8 She mentions Chodorow 's socialization theory of the transfer of concerns with care and responsibility from mothers to daughters , but she does not make it an integral part of her own account .
9 When I come round the Lord 's table , it 's not to make me a better Christian , it 's not to make me a better person , a more religious person , a more spiritual person it 's a confession of faith , apart from being an act of obedience , it is a confession of faith .
10 There 's no harm in using highly processed foods occasionally but it 's best not to make them a regular part of the family 's diet .
11 Peter had won three times already and had been unlucky not to make it a fourth title the year before .
12 ‘ It wo n't make me a better player , ’ added Strachan , ‘ but it 's always nice to get a pat on the back . ’
13 But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin .
14 Just do n't make me a geriatric case , Doc . ’
15 Even so , it does n't make him a bad man . ’
16 He had one bad game for England but that does n't make him a bad player . ’
17 Just because it 's a Number One does n't make it a better record than anything else that 's out that week .
18 And that does n't make it a good single .
19 The odd tipple wo n't make it a bad habit !
20 To which I would answer , first , that the witness is not before the court and has not been cross-examined on the matter , and secondly that just because something 's a ‘ well-known fact ’ this does n't make it a well-known fact about me .
21 When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him .
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