Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] make [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ( 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 .
2 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 .
3 Its calculations are all relatively local ones : neurones do not make contact with other neurones at any great distance in the same cortical region .
4 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 .
5 Most modern anaerobes ( including most yeasts ) are perfectly tolerant of oxygen , although they do not make use of it .
6 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 ’ .
7 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 …
8 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 .
9 But it is no use making out an extensive list of the treasures in our inheritance if we do not make use of them .
10 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 .
11 * Do not make coffee with boiling water .
12 And Good Companions that were er , they do n't make stuff like that today .
13 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 .
14 ‘ Please , ’ she whispered , ‘ do n't make love to me .
15 That 's your business , but please do n't make love to her in my house , during a game .
16 ‘ If you do n't make love to me — here and now — I think I 'll just die ! ’
17 Bees do n't make honey by talking . ’
18 Do n't make fun of me , Wallace . ’
19 You do n't make dance for other choreographers to come and look at . ’
20 Mind , it do n't make sense to me , an 'andsome feller like 'im not 'aving no wife .
21 Do n't make sense to me , ’ said Mr Beavis , a bulging man in his nightshirt .
22 ‘ I 've got things in my head that came from nowhere , ’ he said , ‘ things that do n't make sense to me .
23 I think one rule that you have to follow and as long as you follow that particular rule then they can handle infinite amount of power , do n't make sense to me
24 ‘ If they do n't make sense of that lot soon , they 're either going to go under , or at the very least collide with another boat . ’
25 Some firms have resisted : Kellogg , which has seen own-labels ' share of the cereal market double since 1988 , is now emblazoning its boxes with the slogan ‘ We do n't make cereal for anyone else . ’
26 They do n't they do n't make crab at the end .
27 of course he had no recipe , although I do n't make custard in micro I would n't know how to do it in microwave
28 ‘ The trouble is so many do n't make use of that expertise we have within the Government service . ’
29 ‘ … This lady is well-connected , well-respected … you do n't make trouble for such people with impunity . ’
30 If you have not made stock from the bone , place the whole bone or part of it in the pan with the measured amount of water , not stock .
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