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

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1 The houses claimed , however , that they had informed the Ministry of Finance of the payments in 1990 , and that the ministry had chosen not make the information public , preferring to instruct the securities houses to discipline those personnel responsible .
2 Would the end of the first-past-the-post system , with its unpredictable results , not make the business of politics boring ?
3 When parents become involved in sibling arguments they have to be very careful not make the situation worse rather than better .
4 Neville Baggaley 's only regret is that he did not make the change sooner .
5 Strachan did not make the change immediately , for he crocked a shoulder in the test against South Africa and had a three-week stand-down period immediately after he returned from tour .
6 This does not make the exchange itself a party to the agreement .
7 ‘ Dropping a book to £9.99 from £15 does not make the public run out and flood the bookstores ; the book has got to have some other handle to it . ’
8 Every now and again you will not make the progress that you anticipate .
9 Medical science did not make the progress in mastering cancer , heart ailments and mental and nervous disorders which it had made in dealing with communicable diseases .
10 Nigeria 's vast size , and its complicated ethnic and religious make-up , do not make the country a comfortable candidate for democracy .
11 Giving banks and building societies the right to handle conveyancing might not make the service cheaper , but the competition should mean that it was done better .
12 Parents of allergic children have to walk a tightrope — on the one hand they need to warn their child about things to avoid , but on the other hand they must not make the child over-anxious .
13 The company is very eco-conscious and Tupperware products which do not make the mark are recycled .
14 Mowden found themselves 6–3 down at half-time and despite much second half pressure , they could not make the breakthrough and went down 12–3 , a late Ryton try settling the issue .
15 Many less desperate alcoholics tried AA , but did not succeed because they could not make the admission of hopelessness .
16 Leapor does not make the case that women are always unhappy in marriage .
17 This very brief review of about ten conservation programmes can not make the case that all national policies fail .
18 The occasional over-indulgence will not make the person guilt-ridden .
19 Advance orders alone ran to 12 000 ; ICL was signed up as the manufacturer but could not make the equipment quickly enough .
20 If you realise that you can not make the schedule , then you need to negotiate a realistic alternative .
21 This time she did not make the bathroom .
22 The leadership team had now dropped down from three to two as one of the leaders could not make the trip due to work commitments so the driving was split equally between co-leader Dave Lowe and myself .
23 Ironically their votes would have made sure Lord Mayor Reg Empey did not make the trip , but as it was the proposal was defeated anyway by votes to 15 .
24 This does not make the experience any less valid ; it is simply an indication of the difference between the visual powers of one person and another .
25 The fact for example that the bandit screens withstood the swinging sledge-hammer and the discharged shotgun at Heaton Chapel Branch last month did not make the experience any more palatable for anyone involved .
26 Unlike the agricultural workers in an occupational community , the newcomers do not make the village the focus of all their social activities .
27 But the people can not make the universe themselves , without the aid of skilled and dedicated designers like Phil Schaffer and administrators like Bill Goody .
28 The teacher does not make the mistake of finding a game that has all the stereotype trappings of horror and mystery .
29 Agnes did not make the mistake now of asking her customer how much he intended to spend on the acid drops ; she reached up and took down the jar and , tilting it , tipped some acid drops into the scale ; then , putting the glass lid back onto the jar , she returned the whole to the shelf before once again blowing into a small paper bag and depositing the sweets inside .
30 Do not make the mistake of reacting prematurely when a problem occurs .
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