Example sentences of "you can not make " in BNC.

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1 You can keep a people ignorant but you can not make them ignorant — ‘ Tom Paine ? ’
2 ‘ Well , Piper , if you can not make up your mind , you are welcome to spend the night at the Police Station ; I have two empty cells at the moment .
3 You can not make peace with dictators , you have to destroy them , ’ Nelson asserts at one point for the benefit of inattentive members of the audience .
4 A record-player will translate information carried as undulations in a groove into sound , but not back again : you can not make a record by shouting at the loudspeaker of a record-player .
5 In this respect , living systems differ from non-living ones : you can not make a visible change in the form or behaviour of a wave in the sea by moving one molecule , or even a million molecules .
6 This means that you drag up a documents giving directions about how you wish to be treated if later on you can not make your wishes known because you have suffered a serious accident or are very ill .
7 Or perhaps you 've found that you can not make a square turn to the right like those you find so easy to the left .
8 On the other hand , there 's no reason why you can not make material gains , particularly if you follow the suggestions earlier to break out of old patterns and courageously go forth into new and uncertain territory .
9 Without such a juxtaposition , you can not make a rational assessment of twentieth century design .
10 Unbalanced for some , but those who know the area will agree that you can not make Moderates out of vertical rock .
11 You can not make lace on your first row and there has to be at least one stitch between each hole .
12 If that happens you can not make a will .
13 Of course sometimes when it does n't work that depresses me because it 's not because it does n't work , it 's because of the constraints of the system that you can not make it work .
14 If you can not make it on that night , come to one of our First Friday meetings .
15 There is another rule , equally old and equally well-established — that you can not make a mere witness a party in order to get discovery from him ’ .
16 If you realise that you can not make the schedule , then you need to negotiate a realistic alternative .
17 Readiness to improvise and make use of scraps saves money that can be better spent on things you can not make for yourself .
18 The sceptical argument therefore claims that you can not make sense of the idea of a subject of experience other than yourself .
19 There is a very popular cant phrase that you can not make men good by Act of Parliament .
20 You can not make a habit of coming here . ’
21 Even if you can not make an active contribution your support is of great value .
22 And you can not make qualitative prejudicial judgments and say one is better than the other .
23 If you can not make this , do n't worry , as it will be repeated all over the country on a weekly basis .
24 J said : " The cases are quite clear that you can not make a valuer an arbitrator by calling him so or vice versa " .
25 But you can not make yourself into a cricketer .
26 You can not make a mistake . ’
27 Please make every effort to attend on 11 March — but if you can not make it — Please complete and return the appropriate slip .
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