Example sentences of "not make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | High Tables does not make a profit on his management of the ingredients budget — it simply charges a management fee for the entire contract . |
| 2 | There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ? |
| 3 | Would it not make a difference if one identified experience , not with some disposition to overt behaviour , but with the ‘ behaviour ’ of the brain as it ‘ discriminates ’ the various sorts of stimuli within the nervous system ? |
| 4 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 5 | He also said that the Prince and Princess of Wales would not make a planned visit to China in November ‘ so long as those responsible for the atrocities over the past weekend remain in control of the Chinese government ’ . |
| 6 | The FIA court of appeal did not make a final decision in Paris on Thursday after a three-hour hearing to consider Mansell 's evidence . |
| 7 | ‘ I did not make a fuss about it . |
| 8 | The Powderhall stadium in Edinburgh was the top venue for professional athletics , though competitors could not make a living by running alone . |
| 9 | ‘ Two quarters do not make a trend , ’ said a PHLS spokesperson . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the Air Staff , who preferred the military version of the VC-7 , the V-1000 , could not make a strong enough case to offset the commercial and political arguments favouring the Britannia . |
| 11 | This makes sense in Japan where ( because of stellar house prices ) most young single professionals still live at home with their parents and have cash to spend , and where people do not make a habit of throwing bricks through car windows and stealing things . |
| 12 | But two weak airlines do not make a strong one . |
| 13 | The choice of a tie will not make a dullard shine at work or help him get the girl of his dreams . |
| 14 | Does it not make a lot of sense because it rings true to our experience ? |
| 15 | I do not make a fuss , I do not rant and splutter . |
| 16 | Its influence was slow to make itself felt , and it did not make a clean sweep of Western monasticism until the ninth century . |
| 17 | I once left a message on a colleague 's answering machine saying that someone else could not make a meeting because she had resigned . |
| 18 | A record-player will translate information carried as undulations in a groove into sound , but not back again : you can not make a record by shouting at the loudspeaker of a record-player . |
| 19 | In this respect , living systems differ from non-living ones : you can not make a visible change in the form or behaviour of a wave in the sea by moving one molecule , or even a million molecules . |
| 20 | However , the yard will not make a profit until 1994 when government subsidies are due to end . |
| 21 | There was scarcely a branch of Australian art to which Burke did not make a contribution , through research , criticism , personal contact with artists , and as a member of countless boards , committees and trusts . |
| 22 | Insurer pledges it will not make a drama out of a crisis |
| 23 | ‘ If your own family is so badly brought up , ’ thundered a Scottish columnist , ‘ so lacking in moral fibre that it can not make a go of its marriages , what price all those Christmas homilies ? ’ |
| 24 | The Ashby Report did not make a dramatic impact upon the Eastern District , but it was important nonetheless . |
| 25 | He did not make a fire tonight , nor eat any supper . |
| 26 | control rims As the rear diff ratio is hard to alter and the different diff ratios do not make a large difference , your only option is an overdrive |
| 27 | Why not make a completely fresh start some place else ? |
| 28 | If they can not make a living from the Herdwick the breed will disappear , which would be an irrevocable loss of an animal which is such an important part of the Lakeland landscape . |
| 29 | Within a given political economy where there is a ‘ free ’ market for labour ( taking this , hypothetically as given ) , labour becomes so plentiful and therefore cheap that it can not make a living . |
| 30 | A lot is made of high and low cholesterol foods , especially in the USA , but cutting back on foods which are high in cholesterol does not make a lot of difference to blood cholesterol concentrations . |