Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] did [adv] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet German setbacks did not make Franco rush to embrace the Allied cause . |
| 2 | However , Lithuania are n't going to be as dangerous as they might have been as several of their top stars did n't make the trip . |
| 3 | He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination . |
| 4 | These limitations did not make rapid movement impossible , as Marlborough showed in 1704 and Frederick II in 1757 ; but they ensured that it should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 5 | Her soft-soled sandals did n't make a sound as she crossed the terrace , then she began to make her way through the walled garden , towards the corner where she thought she had seen something — or someone — move . |
| 6 | Human beings did not make slugs or crabs . |
| 7 | The agency was forced to reverse its decision under legal pressure from the steel industry , largely because the NAAQSs for suspended particulates did not make a distinction between particulate sizes , even though smaller particles are known to be more harmful . |
| 8 | He had thought of experimenting with three different subjects — maths , foreign languages and chess — but his financial circumstances in those days did not make it possible . |
| 9 | ‘ I came , I saw , I was conquered , to mistranslate the mighty Caesar , ’ Hope went on , puffing a little uphill — curious that his heavy exercises did not make country walking more comfortable — and hoping that Mr Crump had not heard that hackneyed quip too often — ‘ and who could resist the lake , the hills , the trees , the flowers , the birds . ’ |
| 10 | I suppose I wrote King Rat to try to find out why I survived and 14 out of 15 others did n't make it . |
| 11 | The enduring point is that close links did not make finance the slave of industry . |
| 12 | In the 1980s free-flowing , borderless markets did indeed make borrowing and capital-raising appear easier . |
| 13 | They had the moral flexibility to meet shifting organizational demands and still enjoy the sleep of the just — their ability to relativize other moral imperatives whilst constantly prioritizing the pursuit of organizational goals did not make them necessarily immoral , but it did facilitate a moral flexibility others denied themselves . |
| 14 | Most patients did not make a full renal recovery . |
| 15 | Although the story of Croton 's lost Helen admitted that no single girl of the southern peninsula in those days was entirely beautiful enough , it was still recalled by the attending spectators at the Sunday promenade , by the old men and women no longer in the marriage stakes , by the servants whom custom forbade from parading — as if the cost of new or spruced-up clothes did not make it impossible for them to take part anyway . |