Example sentences of "but they [verb] [not/n't] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said there were 4 potential wage earners in the household but they had n't made any payment for 17 months . |
| 2 | They 've refurbished it but they 've not made any space for a down escalator have they ? |
| 3 | ‘ The airlines all know , of course , but they tend not to make it public for commercial reasons . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | These measures may make getting information off the P N C more difficult , but they do not make it impossible . |
| 8 | ‘ '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 . |
| 9 | The ‘ good guys ’ are all very well but they do n't make headlines . |
| 10 | But … but they do n't make up life … well , not entirely . ’ |
| 11 | But they do n't make the mistake of breaking in right away . |
| 12 | Erm peacocks ' tails may make them beautiful and more reproductively successful with peahens , but they do n't make them fitter in terms of erm life expectancy . |
| 13 | Many organisations , as I 'm sure you are aware , buy computer or receive them as gifts , but they do n't make full use of them because of the lack of money for the necessary training and consultancy . |
| 14 | They may have done so , but they did not make it clear that they had . |
| 15 | These are sacrifices by any standards but they have not made them because they want to be heroes . |
| 16 | But they have not made a single bid at Britain 's top yearling sale this week . |