Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [not/n't] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | But cash carrots alone could not make the system successful . |
| 2 | Injured I suppose so could n't make the away trip : - ) ) ) |
| 3 | Now obviously you can translate the idea of something being a preventative about illness or sickness , but it 's very difficult to suggest in idiomatic modern English that roses can be a protection against evils , because you really , we really do n't have that kind of concept , normally now , although there are many uses of erm , groups of people who might retain such a concept , and if something like that arises , you obviously ca n't make it idiomatic , because there 's just no way it 's going to work idiomatically in English . |
| 4 | These problems alone would not make the prospects for the straightforward treatment of deictic sentences within truth-conditional semantics look very hopeful . |
| 5 | One word alone wo n't make sense . |
| 6 | Schools alone can not make guarantees about the quality of education . |
| 7 | So whenever he tried to explain any musical idea he just could n't make his bands understand . |
| 8 | In the end it must have been the right one because I was the best of all and I you know until five minutes before everything finished I just could n't make up my mind |
| 9 | bloody hell , shuffling like a buggery here , I just ca n't make a bloody hand |
| 10 | I I just ca n't make bloody forty . |
| 11 | If you try to do the sums and ask could you do all those changes simply by sort of species going one way and the other relative to these changes erm in their origins and then those species which happen to be in the right direction being selection by some kind of species selection , I think the answer is you just ca n't make the sums add up right . |
| 12 | It 's part of the capping programme which we just ca n't make this year , and I think that 's erm that 's that saving . |
| 13 | I do n't think Paul Kee will play , and to be perfectly honest , I do n't think Jim Magilton will play , but we 're going to have to wait until tomorrow ; Billy Bingham just ca n't make up his mind . |
| 14 | This would be fine but the natural type of memory for a modern machine , a 286 or 386 , is extended memory and this means that often a machine will have 4 or 8 MBytes of memory that a simple spreadsheet just can not make use of . |
| 15 | That 's why just can not make a living . |
| 16 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 17 | ‘ They still could not make the dogs let go and so they got in their car and drove at the dogs with headlights flashing , ’ said a Scotland Yard spokesman . |
| 18 | But , I mean , do , to be more realistic , I mean , o , if , obviously if , if all the government took a fifty percent pay cut it still would n't make a great deal of difference ? |
| 19 | I still ca n't make up my mind what exactly to do about trying to get a university place or something like it , and I would feel better , I think , if we could talk about what you said when I visited you . |
| 20 | Still ca n't make up my mind which service we should attend . |
| 21 | But I still ca n't make him guilty . |
| 22 | It , it , it does n't make you feel , it possibly would n't make people feel very happy about having to walk a long , a long way within the complex , once having got into it . |
| 23 | A person detained involuntarily may not make such a declaration ( 1983 Act , s.7 ) . |
| 24 | Gabriel went back to her table , conscious that Cat had been listening , but probably could n't make more of it than he already knew . |
| 25 | ‘ Probably ca n't make us out . |
| 26 | Speed and distance from the road edge probably would n't make a lot of difference if a landmine was detonated as they went by , but doing it makes everyone feel better . |
| 27 | Then he put , ‘ But your bike probably would n't make it , would it ? |
| 28 | Erm but it probably would n't make much difference . |
| 29 | ‘ She said in her letter that she did n't think we could be happy living at Maythorpe House , that she 'd be lonely and probably would n't make me a very good wife . |
| 30 | IF IT worries you that the national survey on sexual habits is not going to take place , you could take comfort from the thought that it probably wo n't make a vast amount of difference in the long run . |