Example sentences of "[not/n't] taken a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie Perloff has remarked that young American academics and students have a shared culture based on having read or studied the same books : ‘ they have , by and large , taken courses that expose them to writers like Freud , Nietzsche , and Marx , whereas the odds are that they have not taken a course in , say , the lyric poetry of Goethe , the fiction of Stendhal , or the theatre of Molière . ’ |
| 2 | It is regrettable that the House of Lords has not taken a similarly progressive approach . |
| 3 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 4 | At the same time , however , he had not taken a six either . |
| 5 | I mean he 's not taken a turn for the worse or anything ? ’ |
| 6 | The only staff who have not taken a drop in their pay packets are manager Steve Coppell , his assistant Alan Smith and the players . |
| 7 | The only staff who have not taken a drop in their pay packets are manager Steve Coppell , his assistant Alan Smith and the players . |
| 8 | Especially as apparently you 'd gone out in a hurry and not taken a handbag . |
| 9 | Because saves are not taken a target with only 1 wound will be slain if it takes damage , there is therefore no need to roll the D4 to decide the number of wounds . |
| 10 | Although the Labour Party as a whole has not taken a stand on the political position of the monarchy , Tony Benn has expressed the view that these two powers of the Crown should be transferred to the Speaker of the House of Commons because he stands apart from the political parties and is directly answerable to the Commons for the conduct of the chair in a way that does not apply to the position of the Crown . |
| 11 | When the p cos the press have been there I mean they ha they had their own stand , they 've not taken a photograph have they ? |
| 12 | Had he not taken a vow of celibacy ? |
| 13 | Some members who had not taken a journey by train and particularly by steam train for years came on one or both of our trips on the 22nd of June ( Central Wales Line ) and the 15th of July ( Severn Valley ) , to recapture the atmosphere . |
| 14 | For six years , the Government have not taken a blind bit of notice of the Audit Commission 's report . |
| 15 | I am not pregnant , I have not taken a hallucinatory drug , and I have never killed anyone . |
| 16 | But as I say , he unselfishly insisted that he should not be given a place on any scheme in which he had n't taken a personal part . |
| 17 | Drawn into the shouting clamour she would have forgotten her own danger if the Battle had n't taken a sudden change of fortune . |
| 18 | ‘ I have n't taken a penny in wages since we opened the shop and in the past five months Douglas has n't had a wage either . |
| 19 | The division has n't taken a completely structured approach to its use of FDC , and much of the necessary data is still input manually . |
| 20 | Tell them the company has n't taken a stance at all , that our analysts are still working on it . " |
| 21 | ‘ You have n't taken a shine to the girl , have you ? ’ |
| 22 | I suppose Mother had been telling her what a poor parish this is and what a pity Mark had n't taken a more wealthy living . |
| 23 | ‘ It certainly has n't taken a back seat and there have been developments , but I 'd better not tell you what they are until the details are officially released . ’ |
| 24 | Rachel had n't taken a lot of notice of the young SHO — she had been more interested in her own circle of friends at the time — but he had been a frequent visitor at the Stevenses ' home and she knew her parents had liked him and had been pleased at the prospect of him becoming their son-in-law . |