Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb mod] [not/n't] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 2 | ‘ He would see no reason why we should not make our contribution to the royal coronation . ’ |
| 3 | I did n't want to hurt either of them and I did n't see why we could n't make a threesome . |
| 4 | Therefore we can not make syntactic sense of which until we get to the end of the sentence . |
| 5 | Therefore we can not make the a priori assertion that private ownership and unfettered operation is always more efficient . |