Example sentences of "[noun sg] do not make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |
| 2 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 3 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 4 | However , he said the defendant did not make any admissions and that those two interviews would be assessed along with the four interviews the previous day . |
| 5 | Buying a horse with clean x-ray plates a ) avoids buying trouble , and b ) if the horse does not make the grade , and you need to sell , there is less chance of running into problems during the next purchaser 's vetting . ! |
| 6 | Two times half a car does not make a car . |
| 7 | Diners Club claims its customers ' average transactions are higher than those of other charge cards , but this is difficult to substantiate as Diners Club does not make figures available . |
| 8 | The Daily Mail does not make any reference to The Fox at all . |
| 9 | Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black . |
| 10 | [ It should be noted that the rule does not make clear that the form incorporates the notice . ] |
| 11 | Richard Morris , Director for the Council for British Archaeology , welcomes the proposals : ‘ In archaeological terms the emphasis on gold and silver does not make sense as archaeologists are just as interested in leather and wood ’ . |
| 12 | However , it is felt that the department does not make full use of its obvious potential . |
| 13 | Pitting my brain against Mr Kent 's maths test did not make me happy . |
| 14 | Guilt and regret do not make these any easier to come to terms with . |
| 15 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 16 | Corporate management did not make councils more managerial . |
| 17 | The County Council also accepted as part of this oral approach that there was a need for an alteration to the structure plan , because the approved structure plan did not make provision for a new settlement as an element of approved North Yorkshire strategic policy , and we 've progressed that erm alteration through to the examination er in public er today . |
| 18 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 19 | Paul Walton , of James Capel , complained that the Chancellor did not make big enough increases in spending in the right areas . |
| 20 | Wealth did not make him lavish , however ; he had always been careful about money — indeed , he was economical in all areas of life , even in small matters such as ensuring that all the tea in a tea-pot had actually been drunk — and Joseph Chiari has remembered how he kept a regular account of his expenses in a pocket notebook . |
| 21 | The fact that in this case the transfer is trans-phonemic whereas the other cases are usually tensing rules within the same phoneme does not make any difference . |
| 22 | ‘ The Act does not make it criminal to use offensive or disgusting behaviour whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . |
| 23 | Although the Act does not make reference to the current climate of opinion about sexual explicitness , juries in obscenity trials are enjoined to keep in mind the current standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 24 | The passage does not make conspicuous use of logical and referential links between sentences : for example , there are no cross-referring demonstratives or linking adverbials , and few third-person pronouns 38 ) . |
| 25 | The town council does not make laws , it only administers them . |
| 26 | The Regional Council does not make the claim suggested , but is satisfied that , against the Structure Plan targets , the continuing effects of the recession and the continuing levels of build involving infill and Livingston , the requirements for a five year land supply are met . |
| 27 | The surviving correspondence does not make clear what happened to Mr. Carrick , but as Glassford had by the time of election three votes prepared and George Abercromby defeated Major Dundas , it may be surmised that Lord Dundas 's failure to secure the reinstatement of the collector of Inverness was seen by Glassford as a neglect which justified his remaining friendly with Abercromby . |
| 28 | BISHEN BEDI yesterday claimed that England will beat India easily during the forthcoming Test series if the home team do not make major changes . |
| 29 | Getting Nails into the team did not make him any nicer . |
| 30 | The capture of the village yesterday evening did not make much difference to our situation in and around the village . |