Example sentences of "not [been] take " in BNC.

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1 She 's not been taking them , she 's been able to sleep at night but she 's sleeping all day and all .
2 But I 've not been taking them for the last week .
3 I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it .
4 Lucker has not been taking corners well .
5 She revealed that he had not been taking anti-depressant tablets prescribed by a doctor .
6 Perhaps motivated by such heady topics , the Scottish Survivors have not been taking matters that light-heartedly .
7 Yeah , no , if you , if you 're supporting it colleague , we 've not been taking support in all , all week and indeed I know how important it is and we 'll , pardon ?
8 After he has made his first claim for Landor , Pound writes two paragraphs of the sort that have provoked near-apoplexy , because they have not been taken in the spirit that Pound intended :
9 ‘ In such a phase , where final decisions have not been taken , nobody can say anything is for sure , ’ Mr Saeger said .
10 It had not been taken as a result of the breakdown in 1946 of Anglo-American atomic cooperation .
11 This arrangement , which appears to have much to recommend it in professional terms as well as adding to the attraction of professional posts for recruiting purposes , has not been taken up on any scale by public libraries .
12 From the survey , it would seem that many bureaux which own the microfilm system find many uses for it within the bureau when it has not been taken out for an outreach advice session ; it is used for training purposes in order to demonstrate access to and use of information in CAB advice work and it is also used for giving talks to outside groups .
13 The work itself is a primary source , since the data have not been taken from other published sources — if they are presented in a survey actually supervised by the writer .
14 ‘ The Society also looks at the loans that are six months or more in arrears but have not been taken into possession , and adds a percentage of such arrears to the specific provision figure .
15 It had not been taken seriously by MPs or press and the Black case was discredited by being placed alongside the earlier claim .
16 On the other hand , he could not remember a time when it had not been taken for granted the Hall would one day be his own .
17 But the alarm was only raised 30 hours later when a hotelier phoned to ask why their reservations had not been taken up .
18 Faced with losses of £1,500,000 a week , chairman Nick Schele said the company would have closed by now if it had not been taken over by Ford .
19 You placed the packet , you returned an hour later and because the packet had not been taken you retrieved it .
20 Holly finding that his packet had not been taken , retrieving it , hurrying away , and frightened to look over his shoulder and check whether he was under surveillance .
21 But Zeebrugge and Ostend had not been taken , nor the enemy rolled back .
22 The reason why the seventies are so often dogged by aches and pains is that sufficient care has not been taken during the fifties and sixties .
23 But those who composed the Brezhnev doctrine have not been taken in by this line of thinking , at least not to date .
24 Anyone considering a purchase from this company should make sure they get cast-iron guarantees concerning specification and after sales support or , like me and many others to my knowledge , they will wish that they had not been taken in by misleading advertising and had paid a little more money to an established British company .
25 This question has not been taken up in any serious way .
26 The setting up , in 1991 , of the Ecole Nationale du Patrimoine , staffed mainly by art historians , has further demoted archaeological research ; the national plan for archaeology , which was to have been a blueprint for future research projects , has not yet received the promised funding of FFr17 million ( £1.7 million ; $2.9 million ) ; and their proposal that special forms of taxation be introduced to pay for urgent excavations ( with priority given to the most deserving cases ) has not been taken up .
27 Russia declared war on Japan on 8 August but , as the Japanese military reported , the Soviet forces did not appear fully prepared for conflict extending throughout Manchuria and Korea : while much of Manchuria was captured , significant parts of southern Manchuria had not been taken when Japan surrendered on 15 August .
28 Bowen C.J. held that the listing decision had not been taken under the treaty-making power , and that the Cabinet was not acting under any internationally binding obligation .
29 Sectarianism and intimidation in the workplace have not been taken into account either , when we asked about this at the same meeting we were told you had to prove you were being intimidated .
30 Only three attended the next meeting on 21st September , at which it was resolved to take steps to reduce the quorum from five to three , and the meeting adjourned ; two weeks later , however , steps had not been taken — in the absence of a quorum , of course , it was impossible — and the meeting had again to be adjourned with only four present .
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