Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] take [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 no offence meant and I I really hope that you do not take offence in that way .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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 ( 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 . )
8 Note , however , that they do not take account of post-1985 changes .
9 Like Lockwood they base their analysis on market and work situations , but they do not take account of status situation .
10 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 .
11 These calculations do not take account of the value of the long term assurance business .
12 But you do not take account of the consumption value these improvements have for your neighbours .
13 This also has implications for econometric models since most of the existing models do not take account of knowledge of published forecasts .
14 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 .
15 Of course , the stressed representations do not take account of the distribution of sentence stress in the utterances .
16 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 .
17 However , police forces reject the Home Office figures because they do not take account of many cases in which a caution is not recorded .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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% ) .
21 The report observes that many companies do not take action on environmental issues until they are forced to do so by legislation .
22 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 .
23 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 ?
24 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 ?
25 ‘ I 'm surprised you do n't take lunch with Mike 's secretary , ’ Rob remarked , holding open the door .
26 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 .
27 They do n't take advantage of the state of the economy .
28 ‘ I do n't take payment by drastic plastic , I 'm afraid . ’
29 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 .
30 And pro tabacco company groups question Research fund 's figures claiming they do n't take account of other factors contributing to deaths .
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