Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get the impression that the poet did not take death seriously , did not quite believe in it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And a murder did not take place . " |
| 4 | Theft did not take place until the accused did the unauthorised act . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Eventually ( and assuming some kind of drastic disruption does not take place ) a given space tends to settle down into a state of balance . |
| 10 | It is very important going into Easter that disruption does not take place . |
| 11 | Seriously , Benedicta , make sure Ranulf the rat-catcher does n't take Bonaventure . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Employees in the private sector do not take profits home . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | This means that if the voluntary sector does not take action , virtually nothing gets done . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If negotiation about sovereignty does not take place , there will inevitably be a ‘ Falklands re-play ’ . |
| 21 | Much care and restraint necessary from both partners to ensure intercourse does not take place around ovulation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Initially the communications between Jones and Pons were by telephone and mail ; a formal meeting did not take place until February 1989 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Considerable solution compaction between grains indicates that cementation did not take place until relatively late in the diagenetic history of the sediment . |
| 27 | But the idea for The Body Shop did not take root immediately . |
| 28 | Of the fruit-eating pigeons , obligate frugivores in tropical Australia , one group does not take grit and the seeds are passed through the gut while the pericarp is digested , but the brown and white-headed pigeons have a large muscular gizzard typical of columbids and take grit , which means that the seeds are ground up and later digested . |
| 29 | Like IUE , the Astron telescope does not take photographs of objects . |
| 30 | Parliament as the law-making body does not take part in the local administration of its laws . |