Example sentences of "[modal v] not take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need not take up the argument here : let us , instead , turn to the more interesting subject of the explanations offered by the Ndembu themselves for certain key symbolic motifs . |
| 2 | She would not take up the cudgels of such a battle . |
| 3 | I shall not take up the argument of the hon. Member for Durham , North ( Mr. Radice ) ; it would be unwise to do so . |
| 4 | Banks will not take up the slack . |
| 5 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |
| 6 | I have details here of scores of cases , but as I can not take up the time of the House in referring to all of them , I will pick one or two examples . |