Example sentences of "not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rule 5 – 43 provides that a firm must not make a personal recommendation to a private customer to deal , or arrange a deal in the exercise of discretion for any customer , if the dealing would reasonably be regarded as too frequent in the circumstances . |
| 32 | STALEMATE : when a king is not in check and when his side can not make a legal move , the position is called a stalemate and the game is a draw . |
| 33 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 34 | Teller went to extreme lengths to rescue Part I , but in the words of Robert Oppenheimer , ‘ The programme we had in 1949 was a tortured thing that did not make a great deal of technical sense . |
| 35 | ‘ While any loss of business is not good for us , it would certainly not make a great deal of difference , ’ he added . |
| 36 | He did not make a great impact beyond his own office . |
| 37 | ‘ I did not make a great job of that , did I ? ’ he asked . |
| 38 | In practice it probably did not make a great deal of difference to either party whether or not leases existed , unless or until a serious dispute between them arose . |
| 39 | ‘ A contract does not make a great deal of difference . |
| 40 | and their Parliamentary advisors took a long hard look at the powers which they held and decided that the 1902 Act as it stood , could not make a viable tramway system , even when grafted onto the existing Corporation system . |
| 41 | He accepts that he can not make a categorical statement about innocence or guilt , but he feels that his constituent has not been given a fair hearing . |
| 42 | In the late 1980s developers knew that they would not make a decent return on their investment on a pay and play basis . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Unlike his rivals , he will not make a final TV pitch for support . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | But two weak airlines do not make a strong one . |
| 47 | ‘ He did not make a strong impression , ’ says Tony Rex . |
| 48 | The evidence presented above does not make a strong case tor substantial changes in Britain following the episode of Magnentius , but there is a sufficient number of indicators , at least , to suggest that the proposition can not be dismissed . |
| 49 | The hypothesis about the importance of making connections between different strategies will be extended to the learning of mathematics , and also to the teaching of children whose intelligence is normal but who have specific difficulties with reading and with mathematics , the hypothesis being that these children fail because they do not make a strong enough connection between different strategies . |
| 50 | There is another rule , equally old and equally well-established — that you can not make a mere witness a party in order to get discovery from him ’ . |
| 51 | Without such a juxtaposition , you can not make a rational assessment of twentieth century design . |
| 52 | Even professional studs do not make a regular practice of covering mares that are under four years old . |
| 53 | Kenneth Branagh may or may not make a convincing Hamlet , or Henry V , but his interpretation is unlikely to be dissected by an audience of Scandinavian princelings or British monarchs : when it comes to imagining how such exotic beasts behave , the performer has a head start on his audience . |
| 54 | Two genuine half-wits do not make a genuine wit and two specialists do not make a generalist ; but two tools may do a better job than one multi-purpose tool . |
| 55 | Consequently , the court can not make a prohibited steps order , or a specific issue order , to achieve a residence order . |
| 56 | Unless he had changed a lot he would not make a good impression . |
| 57 | Once briefed , the photographer should be left to compose the pictures himself and if he says something will not make a good picture his judgement should be accepted . |
| 58 | 5 Take the photographer 's advice on what will and what will not make a good picture . |
| 59 | You see , although I love her so deeply , I know that Rosamund would not make a good wife for a missionary . ’ |
| 60 | The reason Jake had had a change of heart was because he had finally realised for himself that Janice would not make a good mother for Kirsty , and that Shiona , on the other hand , would . |