Example sentences of "[not/n't] take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I not take one step without falling on my face ? ’ |
| 2 | Since their success depended upon their mobility , they could not take cumbersome engines with them ; instead , they developed military skills sometimes rather different from those employed by more conventional soldiers . |
| 3 | Their views of appropriate actions for resolving problems of disability related to their own value systems ; the authors of the study conclude that a standard service , which does not take individual values into account , will conflict with the view of some people it is trying to help . |
| 4 | League tables that do not take that correlation into consideration distort reality and are inaccurate . |
| 5 | The Government document , however , does not take that road to the problems of Scotland 's health . |
| 6 | Even if our ministries do not take that form of living as radically as that , incarnation does challenge each of us to apply the message of Christ . |
| 7 | Those who were closest to her were going to make sure she did not take that gift for granted . |
| 8 | Environmental policies which did not take economic concerns into account were " doomed to fail " , he said , whereas " there is no better ally in the service of our environment than strong economies , economies that make possible increased efficiencies , that enable us to make environmental gains , economies that can generate new technologies and help us arrest and reverse the damage done to our environment " . |
| 9 | But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity . |
| 10 | But the law did not take specific account of Arabs who left their homes for fear that Israeli forces might cause them harm — the reason most Arabs give for their sudden departure . |
| 11 | For years nurses had wanted special pay arrangements which recognized that they did not take industrial action in pursuit of their pay claims . |
| 12 | The controversial nature of Gates 's nomination was highlighted when many of his supporters , most notably Boren , warned him that they would be watching closely to ensure that he did not take retaliatory action against his critics within the CIA . |
| 13 | Theory and criticism should not take second place to imaginative writing ’ … |
| 14 | But she has vowed that she will not take financial help from the church . |
| 15 | PEOPLE use patents either as a valid legal weapon to block rival manufacture or as a bluff to put off rival manufacturers who know nothing about patent law and do not take legal advice from a patent agent . |
| 16 | If they did not take legal advice before buying property together , its division could be complicated . |
| 17 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 18 | One approach is to hire a sociologist to peer into the black box ( the quotation from Heusch 1981 : 423 , and p. 46 in this book about the role of the sociologist is apposite here ) , in a similar way to anthropologists who sought to tell colonial administrators how to avoid irritating the people they governed ( although , according to Feuchtwang 1973 , the administrators did not take much notice of what they had to say ) . |
| 19 | Many do not take full advantage of the various daytime , night and off-peak tariffs on offer from their electricity company . |
| 20 | Drivers do not take full advantage of a vehicle 's improved performance . |
| 21 | We have the freedom to travel nearly anywhere in the world , English is a language that is widely spoken and understood , most of us have at least a basic secondary education and we have the training resources and ability to go , we do not take full advantage of it . |
| 22 | But the manufacturers claim that the insurers are still using a blanket approach which does not take full account of differences between models , and improvements they have introduced . |
| 23 | However , these estimates do not take full account of the class of mutational events which lead to minor deleterious effects and which , by their large number , might impose a greater total genetic burden on the population than that from a smaller number of relatively more serious conditions . |
| 24 | The traveller in a hurry does not take this kind of thing lying down . |
| 25 | ‘ If a dolphin can out-manoeuvre or outswim a shark it will do so … . if the dolphins can not take evasive action for some good reason , such as that a birth is about to take place , they will attack a shark . |
| 26 | In the following year the public were lectured from the courts on the duties of parenthood when , expressing himself ‘ perfectly satisfied that these crimes can be traced to neglect of parents ’ , the Recorder of Bradford struck the familiar harmonies of discontent : ‘ Parents of this time , unfortunately , do not take sufficient care in bringing up their children . |
| 27 | The authorities in Hamburg and Bremen said on Monday that the merger plan does not take sufficient account of the interests of the north of the country , particularly in terms of employment . |
| 28 | That is to say , I did not take sufficient account of the fact that at that time of the day , what Mr Farraday enjoys is a conversation of a lighthearted , humorous sort . |
| 29 | The criticisms were not specific : British people were not well enough trained in comparison with people from some other countries , their training did not take sufficient account of what employers wanted , there was too little emphasis on the connection between the launching of new enterprises and the training of people in readiness for and in order to follow the consequences of those launches — and the absence of collaborative management in the past had led to poorly organized training . |
| 30 | The project has been drawn some criticism , however , from those who argue that it does not take sufficient account of the interests of local tribal people . |