Example sentences of "not make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel that it could be boxed in by bureacracy and not make much contribution to a company 's performance . ’ |
| 2 | In Madrid the NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner told legislators attending a five-day annual NATO assembly on Oct. 21 that , while " an additional independent European force " would " not make practical sense " , a European force co-ordinated by the Western European Union ( WEU ) could prove valuable in areas outside NATO 's traditional field . |
| 3 | This positive part of conventionalism most plainly corresponds to the popular slogan that judges should follow the law and not make new laws in its place . |
| 4 | I hope that hon. Members will ask questions about the White Paper and not make wider points . |
| 5 | This price would cover costs , but not make any profit . |
| 6 | At that time there were no instructions laid down for dealing with the radio pirate vessels and , although this particular vessel was outside territorial waters , there was no reason why a cutter should not make reasonable enquiries from vessels in close proximity to our coast . |
| 7 | At this height , if you do not make efficient use of any lift you find , you will be down . |
| 8 | The ‘ new ’ auditor/adviser can not make professional enquiry in such circumstances as there is no one to contact . |
| 9 | Desire and reason do not make good bed-mates , for where reason tries to control the world , desire is aware of the vastness of life , which it knows it can never control . |
| 10 | ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’ |
| 11 | But this principle does not constrain the courts to invent an ambiguity or to construe an ambiguity in a way which does not make good sense . |
| 12 | A scissors-and-paste job on the existing curriculum — which removed masculinist language , substituted female examples and models , deleted stereotypes or debasing images — would provide a superficially ‘ non-sexist ’ transmission process , but it would not make many inroads into the valuation of , or boundaries around , such knowledge areas at present designated ‘ home economics ’ or ‘ applied maths ’ , or , indeed , have any direct effect on the hidden curriculum . |
| 13 | So the choreographer can not make strong contrasts between the style usually used for the other-worldly spirits and that used for the characters living in the particular setting . |
| 14 | Similarly , it appears that managers for the most part do not make strategic decisions . |
| 15 | It did not make pleasant listening and most of it was unrepeatable . |
| 16 | Second , trust presupposes a conscious and reasoned decision by the patient which , in fact , may be beyond many patients who , through pain , the effect of drugs , or unconsciousness , can not make such decisions . |
| 17 | As we approach the year 2000 , with an increasingly complex system of higher education , with more students , more kinds of institutions and more kinds of courses , we can not make such assumptions . |
| 18 | They declare that they have no territorial claims against anyone and that they will not make such claims in the future . |
| 19 | The GUSTO trial assessed the risks and benefits of immediate intravenous heparin or delayed subcutaneous heparin in addition to streptokinase ( and found no mortality benefit ) , but did not make such comparisons for tPA or anistreplase nor provide any mortality comparison of intravenous heparin and no heparin . |
| 20 | This did not make such theories false , but it did prevent them being seriously developed as scientific theories . |
| 21 | His nature is love and love does not make such demands . |
| 22 | The blurred , poky , and inadequate black and white illustrations will just about serve the devoted collector but will not make new converts . |
| 23 | The purchaser of a life assurance contract does not make one payment at the beginning of the contract but pays a premium in instalments over a number of years . |
| 24 | The UK Library Association Code of professional conduct ( 1983 ) does not make separate mention of young people but provides the important principle that ‘ Members ’ primary duty when acting in the capacity of librarian is to their clients ' ( para.2d ) . |
| 25 | The Institute can not make instant assumptions of guilt , any more than of innocence . |
| 26 | Julian 's solution does not make rational sense , but it does reverberate emotionally with an important dimension of the Christian religion of love , which sometimes gets lost in the more cerebral doctrinal formulations of the faith . |
| 27 | Charles did not make extensive changes in the Lombard government , and retained many of the governors and administrators who had originally served under Desiderius . |
| 28 | Purcell did not make extensive changes for the Fairy Queen revival — and indeed he had two excellent reasons not to . |
| 29 | But although her explanation made logical sense — it did not make emotional sense . |
| 30 | But they were never ones for the tilling of the soil ; and they did not make great hunters . |