Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] take [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other abuses such as assaults tend not to take place in front of independent witnesses and proof will always be difficult . |
| 2 | no offence meant and I I really hope that you do not take offence in that way . |
| 3 | Where people do not take part in politics , the study enquires whether this is due to satisfaction , hostility or apathy and in what circumstances people might come to take a more active part . |
| 4 | Direct access to university libraries is still required for those theses deposited before the individual university began participating in the BLDSC microfilming scheme , and for the very small number of UK universities which do not take part in that scheme . |
| 5 | The reaction can also be represented by an ionic equation : In this equation the sulphate ions , have been removed since they do not take part in the reaction . |
| 6 | If conditions subsequently permit some slackening of the measures , that can easily be done , especially as the major tax changes do not take effect for a year . |
| 7 | If conditions subsequently permit some slackening of the measures , that can easily be done , especially as the major tax changes do not take effect for a year . |
| 8 | ( Metric and Imperial measure comparison of all weapon sizes in this book are mathematical and do not take account of slight variations in different countries ' measurements of bore sizes , etc . ) |
| 9 | Note , however , that they do not take account of post-1985 changes . |
| 10 | Like Lockwood they base their analysis on market and work situations , but they do not take account of status situation . |
| 11 | Socio-cultural anthropologists do not need to be expert anatomists or geneticists or specialists in the biology of nutrition but they are likely to talk a lot of nonsense if they do not take account of what experts in such matters have been able to discover . |
| 12 | These calculations do not take account of the value of the long term assurance business . |
| 13 | But you do not take account of the consumption value these improvements have for your neighbours . |
| 14 | This also has implications for econometric models since most of the existing models do not take account of knowledge of published forecasts . |
| 15 | But these statistics do not take account of the fact that , in continuous speech , word boundaries are more difficult to identify from a given mid-class string compared with a phonemic string . |
| 16 | Of course , the stressed representations do not take account of the distribution of sentence stress in the utterances . |
| 17 | A new study by UN economists claims that farming contributes one-XXXX third less to national economies than the totals given by official figures , which do not take account of environmental losses such as soil erosion . |
| 18 | However , police forces reject the Home Office figures because they do not take account of many cases in which a caution is not recorded . |
| 19 | Anyway , the position now is that if you do not take silk at the right moment , it may mean that you have to continue working much too hard for your time of life ; on the other hand some barristers who take silk repent it , for they find too late that their services in the more expensive class of advocacy are not in demand . |
| 20 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
| 21 | The six most common responses , in order of frequency , were : ( 1 ) people do not take care of themselves/are careless ( 26% ) ; ( 2 ) do not know ( 22% ) ; ( 3 ) lack of medical care/education and prevention efforts ( 17% ) ; ( 4 ) homeless people spread it ( 15% ) ; ( 5 ) HIV ( 11% ) ; and ( 6 ) crowded living conditions ( 9% ) . |
| 22 | The report observes that many companies do not take action on environmental issues until they are forced to do so by legislation . |
| 23 | The responsibility which parents have to ensure that sexual acts do not take place between themselves and their children is surely not confined to sexual intercourse . |
| 24 | But what about those conflicts that do not take place within such a constituted social system , such as conflictual bourgeois societies which can not be said to be unified , except , as Sartre suggests dismissively , by appeal to a lost paradise before the class struggle ? |
| 25 | The argument is that you only have one life , that you are the most important person in the world and that if you do n't take responsibility for your own development , who else will ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm surprised you do n't take lunch with Mike 's secretary , ’ Rob remarked , holding open the door . |
| 27 | Mrs Vendrely , mother of Alexander , seven , Ryan , two , and Lianne , five weeks , said : ‘ I am disgusted because , as the wives of US servicemen , we are not eligible for any state benefits and we do n't take advantage of the public services . |
| 28 | They do n't take advantage of the state of the economy . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't take payment by drastic plastic , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 30 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |