Example sentences of "not make it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its frequency however does not make it right . |
| 2 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 3 | I have suggested that it can be shown to be fair or just to do so ; but this may not make it right if some other principle of greater weight is involved . |
| 4 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 5 | ‘ But it does not make it right . |
| 6 | Vehemently , she added , ‘ But that does not make it right ! |
| 7 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 8 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 9 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 10 | They need to know that they can give you your professional , their professional attention they will not make it compulsively , the majority party of what went wrong this is you were no longer the majority party . |
| 11 | To profit , the PROFITBOSS can not make it all himself . |
| 12 | If straw is used as a fuel , will that not make it much more expensive to the horse fraternity ? |
| 13 | This does not make it any the less disturbing and below we will discuss contemporary styles of delinquency in greater detail . |
| 14 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 15 | On the other hand , the fact that a threat is couched in polite and regretful language does not make it any less a threat , and there is little value in the distinction which has been suggested between a warning and a threat . |
| 16 | Whilst the issue of ‘ crimes of the powerful ’ , to use Pearce 's ( 1976 ) evocative phrase , is now often portrayed as a left-wing cliche , this does not make it any the less a problem . |
| 17 | He could not make it out , nor could he trust his own memory . |
| 18 | It stares at the windowlight and can not make it out . |
| 19 | I thought you might not make it then , and I really felt sad for you . |
| 20 | The mere fact that people are convinced that freedom , for example , is a good thing , even that God desires it for us , does not make it more than wishful thinking . |
| 21 | And if she could tell you her mind privately some while ago , do you suppose she can not make it very plain to us in public today ? |
| 22 | It will not make it very easy for them to be called if they seek to interrupt now . |
| 23 | But to say that it is hard does not make it less desirable , neither does it mean that governments should abandon the attempt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | With this in mind , when considering situations where there are questions about very long term service lives , I suggest that current construction methods should not make it too difficult to incorporate any presently unthought of developments that might materialise in the future — be this in 20 or even 100 years time ! |
| 26 | ‘ I can not make it too abundantly clear that , under no circumstances whatsoever , will I support Mr Baldwin unless I know exactly what his policy is going to be , unless I have complete guarantees that such policy will be carried out if his party achieves office , and unless I am acquainted with the names of at least eight or ten of his most prominent colleagues in the next Ministry . |
| 27 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
| 28 | I also wonder what will happen if I have a second child — Mark might not make it back from work in time to be with me . ’ |
| 29 | And there is no reason why consumer-led movements in the West ( and particularly Japan ) can not make it as unacceptable to use tropical hardwoods in the future as it is to use , say , CFC aerosol sprays today . |
| 30 | But this seems to be one of those cases where thinking can not make it so . |