Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [adv] make " in BNC.

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1 We should not blindly make the easy moralistic assumption that whores are disgraceful and so are their customers , of course .
2 One health authority is already negotiating with a French hospital , but it is under the impression that it may not yet make use of that facility .
3 Worse still , it may not even make sense to the target reader .
4 But we do need to remember the great cost of exercising our right to have double standards and also to ask ourselves whether expenditure to make us extremely safe from one form of risk may not sometimes make us more vulnerable to others .
5 Meanwhile , there are rumours that the single or dual-processor Cobra , currently pegged at under $100,000 rather than the previously estimated $200,000 ( UX No 374 ) , may not ever make it out the door because of overlap problems .
6 The NI has a raw edge and a unique perspective that may not always make comfortable reading .
7 Why else would there be the persistent stories that the IB might not even make £3 million out of the 1991 competition ?
8 You 've got those insurance policies , they 're coming good soon , you 're going to spend them on your world cruise I know , but you might not quite make the world cruise .
9 We thought he might not quite make it in time .
10 What can be discounted as nonsense on the other hand is the conclusion drawn by a Soviet historian with regard to the Tambov revolt : ‘ In that period the kulaks ’ political banditry became the most important means of struggle by international imperialism , Antonov could not even make contact with subversive elements in Kursk guberniia , let alone London .
11 Forty-five per cent of this group said that they could not even make a guess at the likely interest rate .
12 It could not even make up its mind .
13 He called to me again and though I could not quite make out his words , I could see him gesturing for me to join him .
14 He was watching her closely , and she could not quite make out the expression in his eyes .
15 Many countries of the world could not only make better use of wastes , but increase agricultural production of the crops of which surplus produce could best be used to manufacture fuels .
16 He played two seasons for Transvaal ( in ‘ 87 he could n't even make the side ) but against them he was brilliant .
17 You could n't just make and unmake people at will without working at it .
18 Well , I was thinking if he could n't actually make it , he could actually l like
19 And it looked like he was of bureaucracy , but what he was trying to perfectly valid point , that he could n't actually make the final decision .
20 Social Worker : It may be wrong , but you could n't then make your body not a body which was the only way then you could make yourself not experience some pleasure .
21 The rector 's wife was a bit of a mystery , and Betty could n't really make her out .
22 Could n't really make it out .
23 I mean bearing in mind that all the resources were broken down presumably the were separate gangs we could n't really make
24 Yeah , they could n't really make me .
25 He could n't quite make out the face , but he was certain he did n't know the caller , which was unusual .
26 Rosten pointed down the passageway towards the open ground in front of the old inn and muttered something Ben could n't quite make out .
27 The Doctor could n't quite make out what it was that had moved , but going by the gelid fluidity of the apparent movement , he did n't really want to .
28 I could n't quite make out what he was after .
29 No he , it was a bit peculiar , I could n't quite make nothing and they said something about they kept him away from other children or something .
30 It could n't possibly make sense for a man who was married to go homo-ing about .
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