Example sentences of "not make [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 2 | These films do not make for easy viewing . |
| 3 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 4 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |
| 5 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 6 | The Building Regulations themselves do not make for easy reading , but there are various guides designed to explain them and the DoE now produce a Manual to the Building Regulations . |
| 7 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 8 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 9 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 10 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 11 | The NIMBY ( not in my back yard ) attitude , whether at home or abroad , does not make for good environmental policy . |
| 12 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 13 | Theories do not make for liberating music . |
| 14 | In short , both of them combine motley membership with rigid structure — which does not make for relaxed , efficient teamwork . |
| 15 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 16 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 17 | The decision to fall into line was not made for ignoble reasons , but from financial necessity . |
| 18 | ‘ Sources close to the ‘ artiste ’ suggest the decision to cancel the tour was not made for glamorous or news-worthy reasons , like police/local authority objections or fear on the streets of Britain … just that he ca n't be arsed . ’ |
| 19 | Not made at Universal studios in Hollywood but Enigma studios of Cheltenham . |
| 20 | The total number of discrepant records was 75 ( 15% of those not made on multiple entry days ) , and 75% of patients made at least one ( 1–9 ) discrepant entry . |
| 21 | A sheep if you buy a sheepskin coat from a market stall then it should be sheepskin not made of manmade fibres and not made of any other animal . |
| 22 | Fenella saw , with a thrill of horror , that as his hand went through the colours , the robes shivered as if they were not made of plain cloth , but of some living , breathing substance . |
| 23 | The most amusing of these is the suggestion that pikemen worse short buff-coats made from imported buffalo leather from America , while in fact pikemen did not wear buff-coats , and the buff-coats which were worn by cavalry troopers were not made of American buffalo leather but local oxhide . |
| 24 | The plaintiffs conceded that their product was not made of secret materials but secrecy arose from the way in which the materials were mixed , the temperature employed in various stages of manufacture and the method of testing the consistency of the product . |
| 25 | If there are nine straight lines in the figure , then interpreting it as a drawing of a box means , among other things , thinking that the box is not made of transparent material . |
| 26 | What Wood points out is that , if the system were not made of complementary modules but was redundantly organized with function distributed across all components , there are some conditions under which double dissociations would still arise . |
| 27 | Not made of coloured crêpe paper , faded , dusty and crinkled on bent wire stems like Mrs Parvis had in her parlour . |
| 28 | He handed it and his sunhat back to the fuming bowler , who felt the gesture was not made with due courtesy . |
| 29 | In the latter case , but not the former , the society is responsible if the report is not made with due care and skill by its employee . |
| 30 | This statement about declining standards is not made with particular reference to sexual behaviour . |