Example sentences of "did not take [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said that the Government had no policy for industry and no policy for the country , and that if they did not take a new direction there would be no British-owned manufacturing industry left in this country — now answer ! |
| 2 | Mercifully the illness did not take a long course . |
| 3 | ‘ No man to upset and it did not take a great deal to upset him . ’ |
| 4 | The leather trade was one which did not take a great deal of effort to run successfully but then Craig believed that his brother had a hand in the unprofitable deals Uncle Thomas had made and had profited from them . |
| 5 | It could not be suggested that these justices in the instant case did not take time to consider the matter and it is not suggested , nor could it be , that they did not take a great deal of care in carrying out their duties . |
| 6 | However , it should be noted that additions to IBM files did not take a great deal longer than to ICL files , while random retrievals from IBM files were not markedly more rapid . |
| 7 | Eva , who felt she owed all she was , and had achieved , to her mother did not take a great deal of convincing . |
| 8 | But it did not take a sharp journalistic instinct to realise that for refugees — particularly young refugees — life could never be that simple . |
| 9 | In nine cases out of ten , it did not take a professional analyst to detect the cause of the problem . |
| 10 | Francis Maginn did not take a prominent part in the affairs of the BDDA after its formation . |
| 11 | The group did not take a big advance . |
| 12 | It did not take a mathematical genius to work out that — with 59 clauses still to go — this was not brilliant progress . |
| 13 | A processor on the train would match that information with the train 's performance , and the brakes could be applied if the driver did not take the required action . |
| 14 | Alix , I regret to say , did not take the Civil Service seriously as a prospect . |
| 15 | ‘ Vinnie had an agent who did not take the necessary precautions of being able either to edit or vet what was said on the video . |
| 16 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 17 | Promotion above the rank of governor did not take the successful aspirant out of his own service into a vaster bureaucracy . |
| 18 | And from here it was but a step to suggesting that women did not take the whole thing seriously as a profession . |
| 19 | This occurred in Egypt and Asia , for instance , and the intention was to create a closed currency system whereby everyone entering the kingdom had to change their foreign coin into local coin and did not take the local coinage out of the country . |
| 20 | By the time we crossed the Forth , it was early morning , the tide was out , so we did not take the cliff-top path but rode along the beach . |
| 21 | But she adds that past hazards to workers making contraceptives and detergents are a warning : ‘ In the past employers did not take the proper precautions . |
| 22 | From the manse the police took away the minister 's cloak , a long black cloak with a hood that he used for funerals , Remembrance Day services , and other outdoor events associated with his ministry ; they removed a broken cross , waiting in a cupboard for repair ; but they did not take the broken-off piece of that cross which was lying at the bottom of the same cupboard . |
| 23 | They did not take the direct coastal route ( 13:17 ) because they were unready to encounter the Philistine forces . |
| 24 | Times were hard , and society did not take the same enlightened view of illegitimate children that it does today . |
| 25 | Of an extremely retiring disposition , he did not take an active part in public affairs . |
| 26 | Mack and his wife did not take an active part in the Society , owing to Mack 's illness , but he always took an interest in what we were doing . |
| 27 | Oh and she did n't take no bloody notice of me might have been |
| 28 | It did n't take a great mind to work out that this was some security conscious area . |
| 29 | It did n't take a psychic to see that Annie had worked that out for herself . |
| 30 | Katze had never seen this type of explosive , but it did n't take a scientific genius to work out what the thing was . |