Example sentences of "did [not/n't] take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
| 32 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 33 | That is to say , I did not take sufficient account of the fact that at that time of the day , what Mr Farraday enjoys is a conversation of a lighthearted , humorous sort . |
| 34 | In this case we did not take sufficient care . |
| 35 | The criticisms were not specific : British people were not well enough trained in comparison with people from some other countries , their training did not take sufficient account of what employers wanted , there was too little emphasis on the connection between the launching of new enterprises and the training of people in readiness for and in order to follow the consequences of those launches — and the absence of collaborative management in the past had led to poorly organized training . |
| 36 | But Joe did not take any notice . |
| 37 | JOANNA Greenside did not take any chances . |
| 38 | I did not take any banned substance and will continue to try and clear my name and resume my athletics career which was just beginning to flourish . ’ |
| 39 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 40 | This policy meant that the USA did not take any special steps to control her deficit but instead allowed the balance of payments to deteriorate . |
| 41 | As his title suggests , his conclusions were based simply on reason ; in other words , they did not take any account of observations of the universe . |
| 42 | The people who heard the rumour and did not take any action are as guilty as the man who used the clenbuteriol . |
| 43 | I have checked with our Information Services manager and he tells me that Wimpey did not take any photographs of military airfields prior to or during the war years . |
| 44 | But he told me he did not take any clubs abroad with him . ’ |
| 45 | Hence the EC did not take any significant steps towards establishing the Common Market , despite the fact that the Treaty of Rome clearly committed the member states to achieving this objective . |
| 46 | Mr Dear has said he did not take earlier action because he was told there was no evidence to suggest a wider conspiracy . |
| 47 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 48 | The other question that needs answering is why the RCM did not take more care in choosing foster parents . |
| 49 | This option was given to working wives in 1948 and withdrawn in 1978 but women who had already chosen to pay the reduced rate were allowed to continue , provided they did not take more than a two-year break from employment after 1978 . |
| 50 | She did not take those hours out and contemplate them ; she simply let them lie somewhere in the head , to surface no doubt at some point of low resistance . |
| 51 | By 1904 most of the best of non-academic German painters were Secession members , and after the St Louis affair even most establishment figures did not take academic painting seriously . |
| 52 | From what I 've heard he did n't take his car and he did n't take one of his vans either . ’ |
| 53 | It would be a shame if she did n't take one last look at her fictional hero — the man it was safe to love because he was so completely out of her world … |
| 54 | She did n't take five years out and say to herself , ‘ I 'm really going to learn music . ’ |
| 55 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 56 | ‘ I did n't take much , ’ muttered Philip . |
| 57 | She lifted the hem of her skirt a little , which did n't take much doing since it was practically touching the ground . |
| 58 | But , like most mothers , I did n't take much notice of the dangers until my son , at about 18 months old , nibbled a poisonous plant . |
| 59 | I did n't take much notice of him then . |
| 60 | It was n't much of a joke , but then it did n't take much to make Karen laugh . |