Example sentences of "be [not/n't] make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not making a great song and dance about it , ’ she said in a softly dangerous voice and , with a hint of ostentation in her movements , stirred a saccharin tablet into a cup of black coffee . |
| 2 | British machinery companies are not making a big enough effort to promote their products in the recently opened markets of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , according to an export consultant . |
| 3 | I 'm not making a million dollars a performance , but I do damn well , and I do n't think people should make a million dollars for a film . |
| 4 | Only as we 've lost the last one , I 'm hanging on to , it 's hanging in my wardrobe , I 'm not making a third one |
| 5 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 6 | I 'm not making a big fuss like Mary ! |
| 7 | and er if they were if they were n't making a reasonable amount you know , eight and a half per cent , ten and a half on some of them . |
| 8 | If the monitor works but appears to have lost one or more of the red , blue or green colours , the cable connecting the card to the monitor is not making a good connection . |
| 9 | He is not making a temporal point about something that must have happened ‘ in the beginning ’ — the first push . |
| 10 | Adoption was not made a legal procedure until 1926 . |
| 11 | Yosemite followed in 1890 , but one of the wonders of the natural world remained fairly remote from the public until the turn of the century — the Grand Canyon was not made a National Park until 1906 . |
| 12 | Abbey Life claimed it was not making a political statement or dealing in anti-Labour propaganda . |
| 13 | In expressing the view that he felt he was n't making a large contribution to the activities of the Commission , he also requested some guidance on what his role should be or what view the Commission had about his role . |
| 14 | I was n't making a conscious attempt to write an Indian War and Peace at all . ’ |