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

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1 The Mesopotamian Jews did not take part in the Maccabean rebellion and apparently were unaffected by it .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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
7 This also has implications for econometric models since most of the existing models do not take account of knowledge of published forecasts .
8 The report observes that many companies do not take action on environmental issues until they are forced to do so by legislation .
9 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 Much care and restraint necessary from both partners to ensure intercourse does not take place around ovulation .
12 Initially the communications between Jones and Pons were by telephone and mail ; a formal meeting did not take place until February 1989 .
13 The official inaugural meeting did not take place until October when the room had been open six months , and took the form of a Tea Soiree .
14 Whatever may have occurred earlier , it seems most likely that the sustained recovery of population did not take place until the late fifteenth or the early sixteenth century .
15 There was also criticism that SMRs did not take account of the health-care costs of social deprivation .
16 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 .
17 These calculations do not take account of the value of the long term assurance business .
18 Like IUE , the Astron telescope does not take photographs of objects .
19 Parliament as the law-making body does not take part in the local administration of its laws .
20 But most government business does n't take place on television most government business takes place behind closed doors .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 They had a young child , but the court did not take account of who would look after the child while they were in prison .
25 Terrestrial animals move around too much for the naturalist to think easily in terms of a stable community , and the main development of animal ecology did not take place until the twentieth century .
26 In the same year the Ernest Ayliffe Home was ready to receive its first residents , but the official opening did not take place until June 1950 .
27 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 .
28 If the maritime portion does not take place in the first leg of the journey , the transport document can not attest to a loading on board the vessel when , in fact , the goods are only on board a truck or railroad car .
29 The contradictions of the model help explain why the transition from Francoism to democracy did not take place by a process of radical ‘ rupture ’ , but through a more consensual evolution in which elements of the regime 's own institutions and key political figures played a central role .
30 These hapless people did not take flight in response to the spread of ‘ rumours of independence ’ .
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