Example sentences of "a [noun sg] do [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , such a change does not take place overnight among all artists ; and secondly it is very hard to be certain that a given statue from the Acropolis was actually set up before the invasion . |
| 2 | However the Americans are so helpful and flexible that if a starter does particularly take your fancy you are perfectly welcome to make a meal of that and nothing else . |
| 3 | And a murder did not take place . " |
| 4 | He said that the reserve powers to make pension orders would be used to secure existing pension rights if a subsidiary did not take the steps that , the Secretary of State considered appropriate to secure the pension rights of its employees . |
| 5 | It is certainly not the case that this can be discerned in the work of all the nouveaux romanciers at the same time ; however , that such a development did indeed take place suggests that a new poetics was being tacitly formulated . |
| 6 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 7 | The fact is , such a fusion did not take place . |
| 8 | The traveller in a hurry does not take this kind of thing lying down . |
| 9 | He suggested that women are by nature passive and therefore less inclined to crime than men — although such a suggestion does not take account of the fact that by no means all crimes involve violence . |
| 10 | The nurse brings to the relationship a maturity which permits toleration of frustration if , for example , a patient is not at home when she makes a house call ; or if a patient does not take the prescribed medication ; or removes a dressing or falls out of bed . |
| 11 | Some would argue that such a view does not take into account the complex nature of the human mind . |
| 12 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 13 | BT conceded that , if a merger did not take place , the System X collaboration could also exist if either company purchased the other company 's interests or if a joint company were set up . |