Example sentences of "[noun] do [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Users themselves , however , are not completely blameless when it comes to the slow uptake of open systems , Wendler observes , ‘ our clients do n't take products seriously until IBM is involved . ’
2 I get the impression that the poet did not take death seriously , did not quite believe in it .
3 It was reputed to be one of Europe 's most disordered cities , and there was scarcely a year in which some rioting did not take place .
4 And a murder did not take place . "
5 Theft did not take place until the accused did the unauthorised act .
6 The Mesopotamian Jews did not take part in the Maccabean rebellion and apparently were unaffected by it .
7 The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it .
8 Such cross-terms can not occur in a system that directly represents a chemical reaction , and the variables represent concentrations : the concentration of one chemical species can not be directly decreased by a process in which that chemical does not take part [ 36 ] .
9 The main concern of the vendor will be the commercial effect upon its business in approaching individuals for critical consents if completion does not take place because one or more have withheld their consent .
10 However , the vendor will wish to delay consultation until as near to completion as possible or he will risk affecting the morale of his workforce if completion does not take place .
11 Eventually ( and assuming some kind of drastic disruption does not take place ) a given space tends to settle down into a state of balance .
12 It is very important going into Easter that disruption does not take place .
13 Seriously , Benedicta , make sure Ranulf the rat-catcher does n't take Bonaventure .
14 However this data does not take word shape into account .
15 Scientific research does not take place in isolation ; the communities within which new discoveries take place , and among whose members these discoveries are communicated , are recognisable social groups .
16 Practice does not take place in a vacuum , and may be implicitly based on contingent theories which allow few across-the-board answers or approaches .
17 The vast flocks of gulls at rubbish tips do not normally compete for food resources with other birds , but black-headed gulls do sometimes take advantage of other species ' food-finding skills .
18 Chris said one of the biggest failings was that parents did not take part in the education of the children , this is where it fell down , that , once the education was seen as a government thing that
19 Employees in the private sector do not take profits home .
20 Eanfrith and Osric are said by Bede to have reverted to paganism on their accession , but it may be that Paulinus and the queen did not take flight immediately upon the death of Eadwine but only on the death of Osric .
21 This also has implications for econometric models since most of the existing models do not take account of knowledge of published forecasts .
22 Confirmations and ordinations did not take place — most of the bishops and many of the religious communities were in exile .
23 ‘ We have two wills on file , ’ Timothy Hutton said , reaching the end of whatever internal debate he had been having , ‘ but the second , which was made in anticipation of her marriage to Mr Hawick , can not of course be submitted for Probate since that marriage did not take place .
24 The report observes that many companies do not take action on environmental issues until they are forced to do so by legislation .
25 In the Soviet Union most funds are channelled into Olympic sport , and because rugby does not take part in the Olympics we get a very small proportion from the budget . ’
26 This means that if the voluntary sector does not take action , virtually nothing gets done .
27 This court believes that discovery does not take place within [ a state 's ] borders merely because documents to be produced somewhere else are located there .
28 If negotiation about sovereignty does not take place , there will inevitably be a ‘ Falklands re-play ’ .
29 Much care and restraint necessary from both partners to ensure intercourse does not take place around ovulation .
30 Our next meeting did not take place until after the Budget in mid-March , but from then on the committee ran reasonably smoothly through to its seventh and last meeting at the start of April .
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