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

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1 There was scarcely a branch of Australian art to which Burke did not make a contribution , through research , criticism , personal contact with artists , and as a member of countless boards , committees and trusts .
2 And a very unnatural mother I should think myself if I did not make a push to secure it for Gerald ! ’
3 Revenues generated from all Unix sales grew about 28% — the same as last year — and although unit sales of mid-range products increased 76% , the company did not make a profit on mid-range Unix products because of increased R&D spending in that area , Bonfield said .
4 I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war .
5 ‘ They had talked openly of their respective marital difficulties at Sandringham last Christmas , although the Duchess insists that they did not make a pact by which they would both end their marriages this year . ’
6 Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible .
7 When entrusted with government he did not make a mess of it ; if deprived of his rights he would make a much more serious opponent than the Young King .
8 Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it .
9 The agency was forced to reverse its decision under legal pressure from the steel industry , largely because the NAAQSs for suspended particulates did not make a distinction between particulate sizes , even though smaller particles are known to be more harmful .
10 The Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , said that research had shown that many people did not make a connection between environmental problems in general and their own wasteful use of energy at home .
11 He did not make a fire tonight , nor eat any supper .
12 He was a strong young man and because the passport was wet , it did not make a sound .
13 Well I disagree in as much as I have said that I did n't have a shotgun and ignoring that fact then that I did n't have a shotgun she certainly did not make a lunge at me .
14 ‘ I did not make a fuss about it .
15 ‘ Two quarters do not make a trend , ’ said a PHLS spokesperson .
16 Waltz 's criticism of Kaplan to the effect that rules do not make a system invites a hermeneutic retort that nothing else possibly could in the social world .
17 Two wrongs do not make a profit .
18 If you do not make a will , your partner has no right to look after your affairs or to inherit anything of yours .
19 The Intestacy Rules will govern the distribution of your property if you do not make a will .
20 When you show the results of your labour to a friend or relative they do not make a minute examination of every component .
21 This makes sense in Japan where ( because of stellar house prices ) most young single professionals still live at home with their parents and have cash to spend , and where people do not make a habit of throwing bricks through car windows and stealing things .
22 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 .
23 The thing to remember is this : modern tackle , fancy baits and productive waters do not make a carp angler .
24 I do not make a fuss , I do not rant and splutter .
25 The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas
26 Two wrongs do not make a right , of course , although they must necessarily shift the balance in how we might approach such an inalienable moral precept as the ‘ general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ .
27 The acceptance of an invitation to treat does not make a contract .
28 Where the landlord has such a right , it is often overlooked in practice , and the landlord does not make a requirement until it is too late .
29 A threat of proceedings for a pecuniary penalty does not make a payment made thereafter involuntary ; for the payer might have defended the proceedings and relied upon the unlawfulness of the demand : William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 and Werrin v. The Commonwealth ( 1938 ) 59 C.L.R. 150 , 158–159 .
30 The amendment requires the court to give reasons if it does not make a compensation order in circumstances where it has power to do so .
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