Example sentences of "not [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 2 | Although the quinary system was not widely taken up , especially outside Britain , it was not dismissed out of hand as a figment of MacLeay 's and Swainson 's imaginations . |
| 3 | Louis IX did not apparently take any steps to prevent Henry from using an obsolete and illegal instrument . |
| 4 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 5 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 6 | Do not suddenly take up violent exercise after years of inactivity , or you will injure yourself . |
| 7 | I am not saying that people who are directly subjected to racism are inevitably attracted to one-dimensional argument or that those who are not necessarily take a more sophisticated view . |
| 8 | You wan na be careful there because I 'm not tak I 'm not necessarily taking those . |
| 9 | Often , people who hesitate to come into the world of education — perhaps because English is not their first language , because education has not been highlighted as important in their households or because they missed an opportunity earlier in life — can come into adult education , not necessarily taking vocational courses in the first instance , but going on to take such courses , which provide them with the training and self-assurance they need . |
| 10 | The reader is always aware that although he knows and mostly likes the people he is writing about , he is not necessarily taken in by their ideas . |
| 11 | For the time being , though , Ronald Reagan and the American Environment should be seen in context and not necessarily taken as definitive . |
| 12 | These differing responses , the fundamental cause of most of the wars of history , were not necessarily taken with a knowledge of the effect that they would ultimately have , for at the relevant time the choice would not have been as clear to those making them , as it would be to minds educated to standards prevailing centuries later . |
| 13 | For there is indeed an observable general tendency ( however deeply complicated by historical and cultural diversity ) to distinguish and to value kinds of work which meet no immediate and manifest need , of an everyday practical kind , and which are at least not necessarily taken as evidence of some metaphysical or non-human dimension of reality . |
| 14 | It can be extremely frustrating for people who have to travel to London and face the expense of preparing a case — sometimes employing parliamentary counsel to put their case — knowing that decisions are not necessarily taken on the merits of the arguments but on political considerations . |
| 15 | I fear that this has not necessarily taken place in every case . |
| 16 | These clubs did not necessarily take their sport in the spirit of fair play . |
| 17 | When the skilled manager encounters what , on the face of it , is an intolerable set of work practices , attitudes and performance he does not necessarily take drastic action , he identifies the natural processes of change and accelerates them . |
| 18 | It can be added , moreover , that a secondary establishment need not necessarily take the form of an agency , branch or subsidiary , but may possibly consist , as the court held in Commission of the European Communities v. Federal Republic Germany ( Case 205/84 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 3755 , 3801 , para. 21 : |
| 19 | Quantitative syntactic studies do not necessarily take as their data base recordings of live conversation . |
| 20 | I shall not necessarily take the hon. Gentleman 's figures on the disabled as being correct , but I shall certainly make inquiries of British Coal to find out what the position is , and I shall write to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 21 | I do not believe that my statement means that the Germans will not necessarily take the system into the aircraft that they order . |
| 22 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 23 | This is a poll which does not necessarily take into account diligence , ability to pass on knowledge and devotion , as the one with the highest number of votes wins . |
| 24 | Yet still not enough takes place nationally or internationally ( where there is an additional danger of conferences being high on rhetoric , low in practicalities ) . |
| 25 | Even the promise of a pay freeze for Ministers was not enough to take the heat out of the effective pay cut for millions . |
| 26 | Just occasionally an electron whose energy is not enough to take it legitimately over the top will nevertheless emerge the other side . |
| 27 | As noted earlier , we should not perhaps take labels too seriously . |
| 28 | This walk not only takes in the lovely moorland around the Doone Valley it also runs along the shady woodland paths on the banks of the East Lyn river . |
| 29 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 30 | Such discussions not only take an inordinate amount of time ( a subtle form of disobedience ) , but they are subversive because they are so rewarding to the child . |