Example sentences of "[not/n't] make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time there were no instructions laid down for dealing with the radio pirate vessels and , although this particular vessel was outside territorial waters , there was no reason why a cutter should not make reasonable enquiries from vessels in close proximity to our coast . |
| 2 | At this height , if you do not make efficient use of any lift you find , you will be down . |
| 3 | The ‘ new ’ auditor/adviser can not make professional enquiry in such circumstances as there is no one to contact . |
| 4 | Desire and reason do not make good bed-mates , for where reason tries to control the world , desire is aware of the vastness of life , which it knows it can never control . |
| 5 | The closure of the bridge did not make good economic sense for the Poles , but their demolition of the bridge in 1928 made even less sense . |
| 6 | ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’ |
| 7 | But this principle does not constrain the courts to invent an ambiguity or to construe an ambiguity in a way which does not make good sense . |
| 8 | I did not make good that afternoon . |
| 9 | There are other omissions , too , which Purcell did not make good , quite apart from the dances which Shedlock noted were missing — the overture , for one . |
| 10 | They do not make many . |
| 11 | A scissors-and-paste job on the existing curriculum — which removed masculinist language , substituted female examples and models , deleted stereotypes or debasing images — would provide a superficially ‘ non-sexist ’ transmission process , but it would not make many inroads into the valuation of , or boundaries around , such knowledge areas at present designated ‘ home economics ’ or ‘ applied maths ’ , or , indeed , have any direct effect on the hidden curriculum . |
| 12 | So the choreographer can not make strong contrasts between the style usually used for the other-worldly spirits and that used for the characters living in the particular setting . |
| 13 | The man who can not make eight or ten bales at least has almost no object in life and nothing to live on . ’ |
| 14 | Similarly , it appears that managers for the most part do not make strategic decisions . |
| 15 | It did not make pleasant listening and most of it was unrepeatable . |
| 16 | Second , trust presupposes a conscious and reasoned decision by the patient which , in fact , may be beyond many patients who , through pain , the effect of drugs , or unconsciousness , can not make such decisions . |
| 17 | I can not make such a promise . |
| 18 | Why , even the executives — clever men , ambitious men , men with briefcases full of management accounts and demographics — can not make such a promise . |
| 19 | A person detained involuntarily may not make such a declaration ( 1983 Act , s.7 ) . |
| 20 | Although many people do not make such a dramatic move from a very special garden to a flat , most of us leave a few favourite plants behind when we move house , so framing a few of them serves as a lovely reminder of times gone by . |
| 21 | His nature is love and love does not make such demands . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the Fipa , and the Zapotec do not make such a distinction meaningful . |
| 23 | If the Court of Session could make an order of the same nature , it was better to resort to its jurisdiction ; if it would not make such an order , the English court would hesitate the more before seeking to make an order to be effective in Scotland . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , in our judgment , the barrister would not make such an apology or explanation to the jury . |
| 25 | As we approach the year 2000 , with an increasingly complex system of higher education , with more students , more kinds of institutions and more kinds of courses , we can not make such assumptions . |
| 26 | The court must not make such an order if satisfied that the petitioning creditor 's debt has been paid either from third party funds or from the disposition of the debtor 's own property with the approval of the court ( r 6.31(3) ) . |
| 27 | Even in the case of specific or ascertained goods the court will not make such an order unless damages for non-delivery would not lie an adequate remedy . |
| 28 | Sally-Anne tossed her head at this , and repeated that it was all nothing — ‘ And really you should not make such a fuss over so little ’ — but all the same she was happy to let Matey help her up to bed ; she felt strangely weak , and the thought of Sunday lunch and washing up , and all the work to be done before the day was over , made her feel worse than ever . |
| 29 | We would not make such a large change without formal consultation . |
| 30 | They declare that they have no territorial claims against anyone and that they will not make such claims in the future . |