Example sentences of "not make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 At this height , if you do not make efficient use of any lift you find , you will be down .
5 The ‘ new ’ auditor/adviser can not make professional enquiry in such circumstances as there is no one to contact .
6 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 .
7 ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Similarly , it appears that managers for the most part do not make strategic decisions .
11 It did not make pleasant listening and most of it was unrepeatable .
12 The blurred , poky , and inadequate black and white illustrations will just about serve the devoted collector but will not make new converts .
13 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 ) .
14 The Institute can not make instant assumptions of guilt , any more than of innocence .
15 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 .
16 Charles did not make extensive changes in the Lombard government , and retained many of the governors and administrators who had originally served under Desiderius .
17 Purcell did not make extensive changes for the Fairy Queen revival — and indeed he had two excellent reasons not to .
18 But although her explanation made logical sense — it did not make emotional sense .
19 But they were never ones for the tilling of the soil ; and they did not make great hunters .
20 The report 's recommendations are in line with the Industry 's argument that it does not make economic sense to close Britain 's nuclear power plants early and that it is far cheaper to run the stations than to close them .
21 Zero risk does not make economic sense .
22 When overseas selling operations are only small scale and it would not make economic sense to carry out such operations oneself .
23 Much of what I have said here is relevant to the second methodological phase ( classification ) , but it should also be noted that we do not make prior classification of social levels of language in the way that many other urban dialectologists do .
24 As has been argued already , most students believed that there was an answer , that physics did provide certainty ; and they did not make philosophical connections between the ideas of modern physics and the existence or otherwise of absolute truths about the universe .
25 Because every individual is different XYZ Foods do not make specific claims about the amount of weight loss to expect , but most people will lose three pounds or more .
26 It does not make specific demands of the growing medium , and will even grow on just fine gravel .
27 Conversely , indigenous politicians , who do not make explicit reference to the individual actor as having multiple points of view , may nevertheless in practice make considerable use of those multiple points of view that are implicit in the existence of different political factions .
28 Furthermore , while the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression and freedom of the media , it does not make explicit provision for free and equal access to the media for all citizens — an equally desirable objective .
29 Furthermore , while the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression and freedom of the media , it does not make explicit provision for free and equal access to the media for all citizens — an equally desirable objective .
30 Indeed , HARPY , HWIM and HEARSAY-II did not make final decisions about hypotheses until the end of the utterance .
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