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

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1 ‘ It would only have cost us 16p but banks should provide a service for the public and not make life difficult for them .
2 It does not make life easy for George Bush , but neither does it make it easier for Congress .
3 The surface at Colombo 's SSC Ground is not as helpful as those produced in India , but Warnaweera and Muralidharan will not make life easy .
4 Diners Club claims its customers ' average transactions are higher than those of other charge cards , but this is difficult to substantiate as Diners Club does not make figures available .
5 I think his experience of farming was somewhat limited because of the time he had spent in the Army , and that would not make things easy for Grandma Hauxwell because she had to take on more responsibility around the farm .
6 But , Pascal tells us , we need to make the effort : ‘ Imagination can not make fools wise , but she can make them happy , to the envy of reason which can only make its friends miserable . ’
7 There is of course no reason why individual lenders should not make insurance compulsory for their clients : its cost would have to be revealed to the customer , and it would have to be added into the calculated APR .
8 Claims that cells turn over quicker , ‘ like younger skin ’ , do not make dermatologists enthusiastic .
9 There is a very popular cant phrase that you can not make men good by Act of Parliament .
10 In theory evacuation turned the child population over to the State — although , in practice , however much the TES called for it , government did not make evacuation compulsory .
11 We hope that the Government will listen reasonably to them , because they have been tabled in a reasonable frame of mind and do not make party political points .
12 should not make librarians complacent or satisfied .
13 In return for probably not making staff redundant .
14 They have advised schools not to make copies available to parents .
15 The explanation for the delayed start is that the Rugby Union and the BBC agreed not to make Rugby Special overlap with Sunday Grandstand .
16 One truth the more ought not to make life impossible
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