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

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1 ‘ I want directors to use black actors and just portray them as ordinary people , not make a big deal about it .
2 In direct criticism of Wolfenden , he argues that one can not make a simple distinction between public and private morality .
3 This issue was followed up in qualitative interviews with a panel of young people , for while we can not make a simple equation between aloneness and the experience of social and psychological difficulty , young people do seem to need to interact with friends in resolving some of their conflicts .
4 He also said that the Prince and Princess of Wales would not make a planned visit to China in November ‘ so long as those responsible for the atrocities over the past weekend remain in control of the Chinese government ’ .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ While any loss of business is not good for us , it would certainly not make a great deal of difference , ’ he added .
10 He did not make a great impact beyond his own office .
11 ‘ I did not make a great job of that , did I ? ’ he asked .
12 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 .
13 ‘ A contract does not make a great deal of difference .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 In the late 1980s developers knew that they would not make a decent return on their investment on a pay and play basis .
17 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 .
18 Unlike his rivals , he will not make a final TV pitch for support .
19 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 .
20 But two weak airlines do not make a strong one .
21 ‘ He did not make a strong impression , ’ says Tony Rex .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 ’ .
25 Without such a juxtaposition , you can not make a rational assessment of twentieth century design .
26 Even professional studs do not make a regular practice of covering mares that are under four years old .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Consequently , the court can not make a prohibited steps order , or a specific issue order , to achieve a residence order .
30 Unless he had changed a lot he would not make a good impression .
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