Example sentences of "we do not make " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Looking back , I 'm glad we did not make any records because we were rubbish . |
| 3 | We did not make a direct trip for we took the train to London , then I made my first underground journey to Finsbury Park , the most northerly point on the tube at that time . |
| 4 | Graham Frater , our HMI Observer , continually reminded us of the hordes of textbook publishers who might reduce our recommendations to a series of useless exercises if we did not make our rationale abundantly clear . |
| 5 | Unfortunately we did not make this clear and we would like to apologise for any embarrassment caused . |
| 6 | The epistemological importance of such an exercise is evident , as is the fact that care would have to be taken to avoid circularity , to ensure that we did not make the credibility of a claim to knowledge depend upon beliefs that were not in the foundation . |
| 7 | I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war . |
| 8 | One reason why we find it so hard to understand the development of form may be that we do not make machines that develop : often , we understand biological phenomena only when we have invented machines with similar properties . |
| 9 | The shapes of the things we make are , as a general rule , imposed upon them from the outside : we do not make ‘ embryo ’ machines which acquire complex shapes by intrinsic processes . |
| 10 | If we do not make provision now , the burden we will place on our children will be too great . |
| 11 | ‘ We do not make comparisons , ’ he said from his home in Hailey , Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | The actual tensile strength of ordinary glass and ceramics can be quite high ; the reason why we do not make motor cars , for instance , from them is not that they are weak but that they are far too brittle . |
| 13 | As Marx remarked , even when we make our own history , we do not make it in conditions of our own choosing and much of it is made behind our backs . |
| 14 | Here we do not make the common assumption mentioned but not specified in connection with the first three examples , which is that an effect had a single cause . |
| 15 | Much of what I have said here is relevant to the second methodological phase ( classification ) , but it should also be noted that we do not make prior classification of social levels of language in the way that many other urban dialectologists do . |
| 16 | But it is no use making out an extensive list of the treasures in our inheritance if we do not make use of them . |
| 17 | We hope that we do not make any here . |
| 18 | If we do not make the U-turn , that treaty requires us to be back in the ERM , or the son of ERM , before the next election . ’ |