Example sentences of "not take [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every effort is made to ensure prices are accurate and goods available , but best can not take responsibility for either . |
| 2 | You are only fifteen , and if your parents will not take responsibility for you , and you will not tell us what you are up at night , the only alternative is for you to go into care . |
| 3 | Yet although culpable for serving him , Jax can not take responsibility for the three further moral crossroads through which the boy drove against the red lights — namely the decision to get drunk ; the decision to drive in that state ; and the decision to drive recklessly . |
| 4 | Every effort is made to ensure prices are accurate and goods available , but best can not take responsibility for either . |
| 5 | In a letter to his lawyers cited by foreign correspondents in Beijing on Feb. 18 , Wang commented on other " leaders and initiators of this movement " who " dared not take responsibility for it and sought to defame it " . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ There will be some job losses but these will not take effect for two to three months . |
| 9 | Not all the major living groups of organisms were present in the Cambrian , however , because the colonization of the land did not take place for another 200 million years , and so there were obviously no direct ancestors of land plants around , or of most of the land animals with which we are familiar today . |
| 10 | It should be noted that following transfer of ownership , the registration of the aircraft often does not take place for some time afterwards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The crucial lesson for all political parties must be that we can not take growth for granted , and above all , we should not plan in advance how to spend it . |
| 13 | We are taking responsibility for people who we were not taking responsibility for before so it is n't sort of entirely buckshee money which we distribute , there are real responsibilities here . |
| 14 | I do n't know , I 'm not taking responsibility for you both |
| 15 | " For people who take a sober view of life , " he said , " a person is liberal who is prepared not to take thought for his personal interests but to expend all his energy on standing up for the juridical independence of every citizen and the freedom of every action which does not undermine the well-being and the tranquillity of society " . |
| 16 | Most of the ‘ myths ’ exposed in this section are excuses of one sort or another not to take responsibility for your own behaviour . |
| 17 | This makes it very easy for climbers not to take responsibility for the rubbish they create . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | You could n't take responsibility for living bodies , blood that can flow , nerves that can actually feel . |
| 20 | " But I could n't take responsibility for them , " Mr. Mendez said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dr Johannsen told us all about the work you do , about how you would n't take payment for it , and you so hard up and all . |
| 23 | It did n't take imminence for Jezrael to know that violence was only skin-deep in each of the three men , hidden like lava , waiting to erupt . |
| 24 | Cos I have n't taken paracetamol for ages . |