Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] make [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | History argues that when Arabs and Israelis do not make peace they will make war : there have already been five and a half since Israel 's founding . |
| 2 | If we do not make provision now , the burden we will place on our children will be too great . |
| 3 | ( ii ) Changing house — Most court orders relate to a specific property and do not make provision for the wife moving house and occupying another property upon similar terms and conditions . |
| 4 | Any change data are thus inevitably incomplete and do not make allowance for potential voting patterns in the many very safe Labour wards where councillors were returned unopposed . |
| 5 | Its calculations are all relatively local ones : neurones do not make contact with other neurones at any great distance in the same cortical region . |
| 6 | ‘ I am sorry if I do not make sense . ’ |
| 7 | Thus many techniques for analysis and reaction presented through in-service training as ‘ cut flowers ’ , have failed to grow in schools because they do not make sense to the teachers once back in their schools . |
| 8 | It is not clear to me precisely what purpose these tests are meant to serve ( there must be a ‘ hidden agenda ’ , as the overt reasons given do not make sense ) , but I can see several disadvantages : |
| 9 | Yet resolutions of the lower House do not make law , and arguably the royal supremacy established over the Church by Act of Parliament during the Reformation had vested the monarch with the power to suspend penal statutes . |
| 10 | Most modern anaerobes ( including most yeasts ) are perfectly tolerant of oxygen , although they do not make use of it . |
| 11 | In 1739 ( and , later , in 1763 ) Acts were passed empowering the justices ‘ to raise and levy such able-bodied men as have not any lawfyl calling or employment … or do not make use of any lawful means for their support and maintenance , to serve as soldiers ’ . |
| 12 | I desire the reader to remember that I do not make use of the word people for the mere vulgar or mobile , but for the whole community , consisting of clergy , nobility and commons … |
| 13 | At present , many health workers do not make use of the information that can take up to 60 per cent of their time to record on forms and in registers . |
| 14 | But it is no use making out an extensive list of the treasures in our inheritance if we do not make use of them . |
| 15 | Descriptive studies , such as palaeontology , generally do not make use of technological or analytical tools , whereas geochemistry and geophysics require heavy investment in technologies which change rapidly . |
| 16 | The actual tensile strength of ordinary glass and ceramics can be quite high ; the reason why we do not make motor cars , for instance , from them is not that they are weak but that they are far too brittle . |
| 17 | The management of innovation efforts , particularly in terminating activities that do not make business sense , can be delicate as well as time-consuming — the more so since administrative fiat is not an acceptable solution . |
| 18 | We hope that the Government will listen reasonably to them , because they have been tabled in a reasonable frame of mind and do not make party political points . |
| 19 | * Do not make coffee with boiling water . |
| 20 | And Good Companions that were er , they do n't make stuff like that today . |
| 21 | A Tory Transport Secretary pledging a national transport policy and oodles of public money for services that do n't make money . |
| 22 | And that 's why we do n't make money on carriage forwards cos we do n't sell carriage forwards for the positive reasons , we say , well if they do n't want them send them back , or if they 're damaged send them back . |
| 23 | ‘ Please , ’ she whispered , ‘ do n't make love to me . |
| 24 | That 's your business , but please do n't make love to her in my house , during a game . |
| 25 | ‘ If you do n't make love to me — here and now — I think I 'll just die ! ’ |
| 26 | Now Francine complains that they do n't make love often enough . |
| 27 | Bees do n't make honey by talking . ’ |
| 28 | Flaubert said : ‘ You do n't make art out of good intentions . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't make fun of me , Wallace . ’ |
| 30 | You do n't make dance for other choreographers to come and look at . ’ |