Example sentences of "[num] [noun] do [not/n't] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 ringers do n't make a right , although they might make a mainstream centre left traditional Conservative . |
| 2 | Since 12 drawings do n't make a show , I borrowed the title The Non-Objective World , from Malevich and set about preparing for an exhibition of lesser-known artists of the early period ( 1914–24 ) . |
| 3 | Of those who apply , three quarters do not make the grade as potential pilot material . |
| 4 | Leaving the Conservative Party unchallenged in 17 constituencies does not make political sense . |
| 5 | ‘ Just because he 's not frivolous and making jokes every five minutes does n't make him boring ! ’ |
| 6 | Not with two houses , one cottage does n't make the same amount . |
| 7 | But while Ireland did show up a number of flaws in the English team 's make-up , one game does n't make a tournament . |
| 8 | Your reply : ‘ But one swallow does n't make a summer . ’ |
| 9 | One swallow does n't make a summer , and neither is a snowfall a portent of the next ice age , but for management a snowfall can be exaggerated , flogged and manipulated to appear that an ice age is imminent . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's one thing does n't make sense to me . |
| 11 | Zero risk does not make economic sense . |
| 12 | It warned that : ‘ One wallow does n't make a summer ’ , a reference to the misleading optimism being gleaned by those who kept harking back to Ireland 's great performance in the World Cup . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But a spokesman for P and O accused Sealink of being selective in their choice of dates , saying : ‘ Two months do n't make a year . |
| 15 | If it was me I would do the same to them but two wrongs do n't make a right . ’ |
| 16 | Two wrongs do not make a right , of course , although they must necessarily shift the balance in how we might approach such an inalienable moral precept as the ‘ general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ . |
| 17 | Two wrongs do not make a profit . |
| 18 | ‘ Two quarters do not make a trend , ’ said a PHLS spokesperson . |
| 19 | The works of the two painters do n't make good stable mates . |
| 20 | Two genuine half-wits do not make a genuine wit and two specialists do not make a generalist ; but two tools may do a better job than one multi-purpose tool . |