Example sentences of "could not take [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morality could not take precedence in the determination of foreign policy because of structural differences between the setting for individual behaviour and the setting for international behaviour . |
| 2 | Quoting from The Times , he would agree that , as applied in Poland , Marxism had created a proletariat disposed to ‘ revolutionising practice ’ inspired by those who could not take advantage of the widespread corruption through which a black economy , supported by western currency , operates to mitigate the sheer harshness of a regime of scarcity . |
| 3 | Marie Grubbe could not take offence at the insults and the brutality to which Søren , her third husband , subjected her when she so thoroughly understood herself and him . … |
| 4 | If six men were left , we could not take control of the ship ; and because only six were left , the captain 's men did not need my help . |
| 5 | The process of conception as such is not affected , and the scientist no more ‘ creates ’ a baby than does the obstetrician who performs a Caesarean section , an operation which has saved the lives of countless mothers and babies in situations where birth could not take place by the natural route . |
| 6 | It was a good thing the cameras could n't take pictures of the way she felt , she thought , and smiled inside herself . |