Example sentences of "not take [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 3 | Marie Grubbe could not take offence at the insults and the brutality to which Søren , her third husband , subjected her when she so thoroughly understood herself and him . … |
| 4 | In the Soviet Union most funds are channelled into Olympic sport , and because rugby does not take part in the Olympics we get a very small proportion from the budget . ’ |
| 5 | It was notable that Mr Adamec 's replacement as Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , did not take part in the talks . |
| 6 | Two of the Stewards , Lord Wolverton and Major Eustace Loder , interviewed the jockeys concerned in the finish ; the third , Lord Rosebery , did not take part in the adjudication as he had a runner in the race . |
| 7 | Mussolini himself did not take part in the march , but waited at Milan for the call to power . |
| 8 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 9 | Parliament as the law-making body does not take part in the local administration of its laws . |
| 10 | Unless specifically instructed by the council , a councillor must not take part in the execution of works or actions ordered by the council . |
| 11 | He must not take part in the consideration or discussion of the matter or vote upon it . |
| 12 | Peden was not armed and did not take part in the band 's less reputable exploits . |
| 13 | He did not take part in the false publicity that some aides drummed up before the tour . |
| 14 | Last year , although they qualified , they did not take part in the final . |
| 15 | Sculptors already fully valued in 1985 notably Alexander Archipenko and Aristide Maillol ( average prices £30,000 and £70,000 ) did not take part in the surge up to 1990 nor in the subsequent fall . |
| 16 | The person doing it does have scientific training , and the MD is more difficult than a PhD in that the supervisor does not take part in the examination . |
| 17 | A Soviet commentator explained that ‘ officially the USA will not take part in the new military bloc , but it promises its participants all-round assistance by supplying them arms and training their military personnel ’ . |
| 18 | The Mesopotamian Jews did not take part in the Maccabean rebellion and apparently were unaffected by it . |
| 19 | Justice David H. Souter , the most recently appointed member of the court , did not take part in the case . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In Annie Fox v P G Wellfair Ltd ( in liquidation ) and Philip Fisher v P G Wellfair Ltd ( in liquidation ) [ 1981 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 514 , the respondents did not take part in the proceedings but the applicants produced expert evidence at the hearing . |
| 22 | The former sprint champion , who built a career on the use of illegal substances , did not take part in the meeting , of course , after he was caught taking the tablets for a second time . |
| 23 | Chris said one of the biggest failings was that parents did not take part in the education of the children , this is where it fell down , that , once the education was seen as a government thing that |
| 24 | The movement 's historian has described it as ‘ a landmark in Free Church history ’ although he admitted ‘ it did not take hold on the life of the Free Churches in the way that might have been expected ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In choosing ( 2 ) she would realise that some pupils would be virtually at ( 1 ) for some listeners would not take advantage of the ‘ role ’ opportunity . |
| 28 | So why not take advantage of the 15 per cent discount offered to all Ideal Home subscribers until May 1993 ? |
| 29 | Crucially , they can not take advantage of the two week cooling-off period available to individuals . |
| 30 | According to PC Week , while the Macintosh will use Jot , Newton may not take advantage of the ink standard . |