Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | J said : " The cases are quite clear that you can not make a valuer an arbitrator by calling him so or vice versa " . |
| 2 | If that happens you can not make a will . |
| 3 | You can not make a mistake . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You can not make a habit of coming here . ’ |
| 5 | A record-player will translate information carried as undulations in a groove into sound , but not back again : you can not make a record by shouting at the loudspeaker of a record-player . |
| 6 | We can not make a judgment without knowing what your resources are . ’ |
| 7 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 8 | Governments argue that they can not make a development omelette without breaking heads . |
| 9 | If they can not make a living from the Herdwick the breed will disappear , which would be an irrevocable loss of an animal which is such an important part of the Lakeland landscape . |
| 10 | ‘ If your own family is so badly brought up , ’ thundered a Scottish columnist , ‘ so lacking in moral fibre that it can not make a go of its marriages , what price all those Christmas homilies ? ’ |
| 11 | Within a given political economy where there is a ‘ free ’ market for labour ( taking this , hypothetically as given ) , labour becomes so plentiful and therefore cheap that it can not make a living . |
| 12 | This type of jig has limitations ; it can not make an ellipse , any part of which is covered by the jig . |