Example sentences of "[vb mod] not take [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Briefly then , the rule of dovetailing ( like all other artistic laws ) must not take precedence of common sense , but must be regarded as the normal procedure , and deviations from it as exceptions requiring justification .
2 Unless specifically instructed by the council , a councillor must not take part in the execution of works or actions ordered by the council .
3 He must not take part in the consideration or discussion of the matter or vote upon it .
4 If there is any suspicion that the building may be inhabited entry must not take place without police assistance .
5 It is a most important matter that a councillor should not take advantage of his position and use it for his own personal gain .
6 Is there any reason why a party to litigation in England , either as plaintiff or defendant , should not take advantage of any procedures which might be open to him to obtain discovery or other access to relevant material in some such foreign jurisdiction ?
7 Third , the worker was committed to the idea that treatment of a medical or disabling condition should not take precedence over the child 's social , emotional and cultural needs .
8 Yet the Lord Chief Justice , giving oral evidence , said that he and the Lord Chancellor were at one in their belief that religious affinity should not take precedence over ability in the appointment of judges and , said The Times , he gave the impression that his positive feelings towards the judge were shared by the Lord Chancellor So oral evidence was admitted on the kind of matter for which privilege from disclosure of documents was claimed by the Crown .
9 This information is for guidance only and you should not take action without specific advice .
10 It was considered that , under the 1959 Act , an informal meeting of the licensing court prior to the statutory meeting to consider and authorise citations was competent , and there is no reason why such consideration under the 1976 Act should not take place under the provisions of s.15(2) .
11 In deference to German wishes , the EC agreed that recognition of Bosnia should not take place from yesterday , April 6 , a date still remembered in the Balkans as the anniversary of the Nazi invasion in 1941 .
12 Although MPG6 repeats the advice in PPG7 that ‘ major development should not take place in [ National Parks or AONBs ] save in exceptional circumstances ’ , it is weakened by supplementary criteria 63(ii) and 63(v) .
13 Although MPG6 repeats the advice in PPG7 that ‘ major development should not take place in [ National Parks or AONBs ] save in exceptional circumstances ’ , it is weakened by supplementary criteria 63(ii) and 63(v) .
14 As a result , solicitors argue that managers should not take commission on what the artist is being paid each night , but on the money the band earns as profit after having paid for the PA , lights , accommodation and other expenses .
15 Although the Witnesses support most forms of medical treatment , one of the tenets of the faith is based on the Bible 's instruction that people should not take blood into their bodies .
16 People taking certain medicines should not take alcohol at the same time , or maybe not take it at all because the alcohol will have a more pronounced effect under/or the effect of the medicine will be altered .
17 They should not take account of side-effects if the sole effect is via the prices of products or factors .
18 According to PC Week , while the Macintosh will use Jot , Newton may not take advantage of the ink standard .
19 We discuss evidence that these two types of mapping can be carried out separately and that , in certain circumstances , role-to-name mapping in particular may not take place at all .
20 As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed .
21 With a chord of C major , diatonic substitution notes would be as shown in Example 100 , resolving on the note substituted as indicated ( if any resolution takes place ) : The above resolutions may not take place at all ; indeed , one substitution note may move to another ( presuming the same harmony ) , again without any resolution taking place .
22 Since an injunction may be granted on an interlocutory basis pending trial ( which may not take place for many months ) and , in cases of great urgency , on an ex parte basis , it is clear that there is a possibility of the union side being robbed of the initiative in an industrial action .
23 The new abortion referendum , approved by the Cabinet last night , will probably go ahead with all speed while the Maastricht vote may not take place until the autumn .
24 She was smiling , and Paul suddenly realised that he could not take money from her .
25 His argument was that the Church of Ireland was ‘ poisoned by ecumenism ’ and as such he , as a Free Presbyterian , could not take part in fund-raising on its behalf .
26 These groups might enter into semi-permanent contracts with academics who had similar interests , and develop rules about who could and could not take part in a ‘ course ’ in a particular ‘ subject ’ and how that ‘ course ’ should be conducted .
27 Morality could not take precedence in the determination of foreign policy because of structural differences between the setting for individual behaviour and the setting for international behaviour .
28 The British felt very confident of their position at sea ; to reinforce the strength of their blockage they laid down unilaterally the rule of 1756 that neutrals could not take advantage of wartime conditions to enter upon trade that would not have been allowed in peacetime .
29 Quoting from The Times , he would agree that , as applied in Poland , Marxism had created a proletariat disposed to ‘ revolutionising practice ’ inspired by those who could not take advantage of the widespread corruption through which a black economy , supported by western currency , operates to mitigate the sheer harshness of a regime of scarcity .
30 The accused could not take advantage of a previous wrong , i.e. of the forgery by which the money came into his account .
  Next page