Example sentences of "[pron] do not make " in BNC.

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31 If we do not make provision now , the burden we will place on our children will be too great .
32 We do not make comparisons , ’ he said from his home in Hailey , Oxfordshire .
33 The actual tensile strength of ordinary glass and ceramics can be quite high ; the reason why we do not make motor cars , for instance , from them is not that they are weak but that they are far too brittle .
34 As Marx remarked , even when we make our own history , we do not make it in conditions of our own choosing and much of it is made behind our backs .
35 Here we do not make the common assumption mentioned but not specified in connection with the first three examples , which is that an effect had a single cause .
36 Much of what I have said here is relevant to the second methodological phase ( classification ) , but it should also be noted that we do not make prior classification of social levels of language in the way that many other urban dialectologists do .
37 But it is no use making out an extensive list of the treasures in our inheritance if we do not make use of them .
38 We hope that we do not make any here .
39 If we do not make the U-turn , that treaty requires us to be back in the ERM , or the son of ERM , before the next election . ’
40 They do not make the distinction between an image on canvas or panel and one on paper which seems so obvious — indeed axiomatic — to Europeans .
41 They do not make the sort of sacrifice — the second mortgage , the move to a smaller house , the seven-day weeks , the abandonment of any thought of holidays for years on end -required of those starting up new commercial or , above all , industrial businesses .
42 However , even if they do not make the play-offs , the Chiefs have achieved a degree of respectability that has eluded them in past seasons .
43 They do not make many .
44 Most modern anaerobes ( including most yeasts ) are perfectly tolerant of oxygen , although they do not make use of it .
45 These must not be sung in the unfamiliar acoustic of the Church hymn , but suitably doctored so that they do not make shoppers stop their trolleys to listen .
46 Yet the cases which fail to set up trusts all fail for the same good reason : because they do not make clear an intention on the part of the settlor that a trustee should be legally obliged to a beneficiary .
47 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 ) .
48 This methodological problem generates a crucial theoretical problem since , as Lienhardt demonstrates , whatever formal ‘ grammatical ’ features a language may exhibit , they do not make much ‘ sense ’ apart from the context in which they are used .
49 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 . ’
50 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 . ’
51 When you show the results of your labour to a friend or relative they do not make a minute examination of every component .
52 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 ) .
53 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 ) .
54 Thus many techniques for analysis and reaction presented through in-service training as ‘ cut flowers ’ , have failed to grow in schools because they do not make sense to the teachers once back in their schools .
55 British Rail , for example , has conducted numerous surveys amongst the travelling public to enquire why they do not make more use of trains .
56 It has traditionally been argued , particularly by judges , that they do not make decisions , but , instead , they simply apply the known law to new facts or declare what the law is in cases of uncertainty .
57 These measures may make getting information off the P N C more difficult , but they do not make it impossible .
58 ‘ 'Men make their own history , ’ to quote the master , ‘ but they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves , but under circumstances directly encountered , given and transmitted from the past .
59 The hypothesis about the importance of making connections between different strategies will be extended to the learning of mathematics , and also to the teaching of children whose intelligence is normal but who have specific difficulties with reading and with mathematics , the hypothesis being that these children fail because they do not make a strong enough connection between different strategies .
60 It is not enough for researchers to assume that if they do not make conscious decisions , try to be scrupulously fair when selecting their samples , that randomness will be assured .
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