Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] take [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter to his lawyers cited by foreign correspondents in Beijing on Feb. 18 , Wang commented on other " leaders and initiators of this movement " who " dared not take responsibility for it and sought to defame it " . |
| 2 | It was notable that Mr Adamec 's replacement as Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , did not take part in the talks . |
| 3 | Two of the Stewards , Lord Wolverton and Major Eustace Loder , interviewed the jockeys concerned in the finish ; the third , Lord Rosebery , did not take part in the adjudication as he had a runner in the race . |
| 4 | Mussolini himself did not take part in the march , but waited at Milan for the call to power . |
| 5 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 6 | Peden was not armed and did not take part in the band 's less reputable exploits . |
| 7 | He did not take part in the false publicity that some aides drummed up before the tour . |
| 8 | Last year , although they qualified , they did not take part in the final . |
| 9 | Sculptors already fully valued in 1985 notably Alexander Archipenko and Aristide Maillol ( average prices £30,000 and £70,000 ) did not take part in the surge up to 1990 nor in the subsequent fall . |
| 10 | Given asylum by King Alexander , it had remained in being as a military unit and on the German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 had offered its services in defence of Yugoslavia against the Germans , although it did not take part in that brief campaign . |
| 11 | The Mesopotamian Jews did not take part in the Maccabean rebellion and apparently were unaffected by it . |
| 12 | Justice David H. Souter , the most recently appointed member of the court , did not take part in the case . |
| 13 | In Annie Fox v P G Wellfair Ltd ( in liquidation ) and Philip Fisher v P G Wellfair Ltd ( in liquidation ) [ 1981 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 514 , the respondents did not take part in the proceedings but the applicants produced expert evidence at the hearing . |
| 14 | The former sprint champion , who built a career on the use of illegal substances , did not take part in the meeting , of course , after he was caught taking the tablets for a second time . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Lane did not take offence at his boss 's comment , nor did he slow down . |
| 17 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 18 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 19 | Richard Fitzhugh did not take seisin of his lands until 1480 and did not become politically active until after 1483 , but it is clear that he was already a satellite of his cousin the duke . |
| 20 | Richard Fitzhugh did not take seisin of his lands until 1480 and did not become politically active until after 1483 , but it is clear that he was already a satellite of his cousin the duke . |
| 21 | If the auditors ' report under s 248(3) were included in the accounts ( in a way which did not cause confusion ) , the company would be entitled to the exemptions , even if it did not take advantage of them . |
| 22 | The movement 's historian has described it as ‘ a landmark in Free Church history ’ although he admitted ‘ it did not take hold on the life of the Free Churches in the way that might have been expected ’ . |
| 23 | Odd that Johnson did not take note of Strichen , whose development was in full swing when he called there for his Wednesday lunch . |
| 24 | This assessment appears valid , but the authorities did not take satisfaction from it . |
| 25 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 26 | Since the telex did not take effect in England , the English courts have no jurisdiction . |
| 27 | The movement may have been divided in this period , but these attacks did not take place without resistance and the value of collective action was learned . |
| 28 | The report also criticises company secretary Bruce Gray , for preparing minutes of board meetings that did not take place without checking the fact of the meetings and the decisions reached . |
| 29 | Casual , individual violence was almost certainly more common than today but ‘ hooliganism ’ in the collective and contemporary sense did not take place at football matches . |
| 30 | The story I have sketched here should be sufficient to indicate that the Copernican Revolution did not take place at the drop of a hat or two from the Leaning Tower of Pisa . |