Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] make [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must not make capital out of her distress , on the one hand ; on the other the items were quite small and there was no need to humiliate herself . |
| 2 | JACKEY : Why , aunt , if they are actually married there 's no help for't and we must not make mischief between man and wife . |
| 3 | You must not make contact until you are over your border . ’ |
| 4 | The problem was , Cora-Beth could see no reason now that they were engaged why they should not make love . |
| 5 | There is of course no reason why individual lenders should not make insurance compulsory for their clients : its cost would have to be revealed to the customer , and it would have to be added into the calculated APR . |
| 6 | The new philosophy said that we should not make value judgements : you ca n't think in an Aristotelian way ; no value judgements , no good and bad . |
| 7 | There is no reason in principle why a small firm should not make pension provision on the same scale as a large employer . |
| 8 | Although most DNA is in the B form , whose structure was originally determined by Watson and Crick , there is no reason why the cell should not make use of other forms as well , and indeed Alex Rich ( MIT ) described a protein binding with high affinity to the left-handed helix of Z-DNA that he first described . |
| 9 | Oh well , you should n't make fun . |
| 10 | He ran his hand the length of her spine , making her aware that he wanted her as badly as she wanted him , and for a wild moment she could see no reason why they should n't make love . |
| 11 | But Mr Bond was vague on details , because the rules of the race are that once a boat has started , it may not make contact except with officials until the event is over . |
| 12 | One truth the more ought not to make life impossible … |
| 13 | threatened and awed the jurors to give a verdict for the King , and by unlawful means did surprize the county , that they might not make defence , and did use several menacing wicked speeches and actions to the jury and others , for obtaining his unjust purpose aforesaid . |
| 14 | Linguistically this might not make sense . |
| 15 | What has perhaps escaped your attention is that our definitions of unc and unc might not make sense ! |
| 16 | But they could not make love . |
| 17 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 18 | In this way he was led to discover that the old laws could not make sense of these situations . |
| 19 | He told it , exactly as he had seen it , not concealing that there were curious and doubtful points in it which even witnessing could not make plain . |
| 20 | As hard as I tried , I could not make use of the staff , so I carried it , hobbling like a stage imbecile . |
| 21 | ( We have taken care here to ensure that an unscrupulous user could not make use of the calculus of expressions to reason about the large scale structure of programs . |
| 22 | And he was right , for unless they could lure the English across into the open they could not make use of their greater numbers or the advantage of the ground . |
| 23 | An observational study of a production line , say , although it might want to talk a great deal about the alienative effects of such work , could not make use of an attitude scale in the way that a questionnaire study might . |
| 24 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 25 | Before punchcard systems came in , single bed machines could not make lace automatically , the stitch transference had to be hand tooled . |
| 26 | They had done very little swapping of horses , mainly because Nails refused to and Hoomey , having become accustomed to the feel of Bones 's hulk beneath him , was terrified by what he called the ‘ slippery ’ ponies — Midnight and Firelight — and could not make Spot move at all . |
| 27 | Dick really could n't make head or tail of the place and resorted to believing that he had no personal problems , and that the Centre had little to do with cures , which was true . |
| 28 | The scheme the mother and this brother were plotting entailed Sien somehow , and though he could n't make head nor tail of it he feared the worst . |
| 29 | I could n't make head nor tail of this . |
| 30 | They could n't make head or tail of me , could n't think what was wrong with me . |