Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] do [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then afraid he might have sounded gallant George added : ‘ Somebody 's got to make sure your military instinct for loot does n't take over . ’ |
| 2 | If negotiation about sovereignty does not take place , there will inevitably be a ‘ Falklands re-play ’ . |
| 3 | This process of discovery did not take long . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This may seem quite straightforward , but it is important , because in some cases this orderly process of crystallization does not take place , and the result is a homogeneous lump of rock . |
| 6 | Promotion above the rank of governor did not take the successful aspirant out of his own service into a vaster bureaucracy . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State did not take the opportunity to mention that Roger Ellwood was killed by a stolen car driven by terrorists on 1 October this year . |
| 8 | This method of analysis does not take into account the factorial design . |
| 9 | It is not appropriate to judge a novel or film , a work of art or philosophy in political terms if the work in question does not take that form ( i.e. , does not organize itself in terms of political discourse ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A system based solely on attendance does not take account of the range of a councillor 's duties ; leaves some councillors better off than others ( depending on their employment situation ) ; and does not adequately reflect the added responsibility carried by senior councillors . |
| 12 | a , Data recording the per cent of lymphocytes damaged over time does not take into account the fact that in the period immediately after radiotherapy , the peripheral lymphocyte count in the majority of patients falls . |