Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [not/n't] make [art] " in BNC.

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1 The reason why it is considered so important that we should not make a commitment at this stage to join a single currency is that a single currency would involve not only a single central bank but single economic management and a commitment by the Government and people of this country to subsidise , if necessary , the trade deficit of Italy , the budget deficits of other countries and the different standards of living .
2 We must not make the same mistake again .
3 We could n't make a new book collection there : that would be absurd .
4 I did n't want to hurt either of them and I did n't see why we could n't make a threesome .
5 Castro is reported to have said in private that ‘ we shall not make the same mistake twice ; we shall not break with the Russians after having broken with the Americans ’ ( Suárez : 1967 , p. 175 ) .
6 Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) .
7 We ca n't make a charge for advising on the availability of the information .
8 If we ca n't make the gospel of Jesus relevant to today , how can we lead other people to faith ?
9 ‘ If we get in front we wo n't make the same mistake of lying back and letting them in as we did in Belfast , ’ said captain and centre back Alan McDonald ( Queens Park Rangers ) .
10 This issue was followed up in qualitative interviews with a panel of young people , for while we can not make a simple equation between aloneness and the experience of social and psychological difficulty , young people do seem to need to interact with friends in resolving some of their conflicts .
11 We can not make a judgment without knowing what your resources are . ’
12 We may try to assist the pregnancy by following a good diet and receiving medical care , but we can not make the baby grow , any more than we can manufacture the growth of a plant .
13 We can not make the causal claim about cc and allow that other circumstances identical with cc have different upshots .
14 We can not make the mystery go away by " explaining " how it works .
15 Therefore we can not make the a priori assertion that private ownership and unfettered operation is always more efficient .
16 As the Archbishop of York observed : ‘ they have shown that it [ planning ] should embrace the whole country , and that without it we can not make the best use of the limited space in our small island ’ ( p. 160 ) .
17 It is theories which tell us what the world is like and we can not make the recourse that empiricist accounts of theory wish to do , to check our theories against a world conceived independently of theories .
18 It is unlikely , though , that we can handle all these if we can not make the first distinction systematically ( and the alert reader can no doubt find mistakes of this sort within this book ) .
19 If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself .
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