Example sentences of "did not take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | KATRIN KRABBE 'S hopes of avoiding a four-year doping ban received a boost yesterday when it was revealed that influential scientific reports backed up her case that she did not take banned steroids . |
| 2 | He was advised by doctors Continued on Page 3 Continued from Page 1 that a degenerative disc might need surgery if he did not take complete rest . |
| 3 | My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’ |
| 4 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 5 | One approach is to hire a sociologist to peer into the black box ( the quotation from Heusch 1981 : 423 , and p. 46 in this book about the role of the sociologist is apposite here ) , in a similar way to anthropologists who sought to tell colonial administrators how to avoid irritating the people they governed ( although , according to Feuchtwang 1973 , the administrators did not take much notice of what they had to say ) . |
| 6 | If they did not take legal advice before buying property together , its division could be complicated . |
| 7 | I was interested in my work and I did not take one day 's holiday during the next two years . |
| 8 | A study showed that the level of stress related illness among employees in a department which provided support as described was much lower than in a similar department that did not take such precautions . |
| 9 | But the law did not take specific account of Arabs who left their homes for fear that Israeli forces might cause them harm — the reason most Arabs give for their sudden departure . |
| 10 | The controversial nature of Gates 's nomination was highlighted when many of his supporters , most notably Boren , warned him that they would be watching closely to ensure that he did not take retaliatory action against his critics within the CIA . |
| 11 | But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity . |
| 12 | But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny . |
| 13 | Those who were closest to her were going to make sure she did not take that gift for granted . |
| 14 | For years nurses had wanted special pay arrangements which recognized that they did not take industrial action in pursuit of their pay claims . |
| 15 | Environmental policies which did not take economic concerns into account were " doomed to fail " , he said , whereas " there is no better ally in the service of our environment than strong economies , economies that make possible increased efficiencies , that enable us to make environmental gains , economies that can generate new technologies and help us arrest and reverse the damage done to our environment " . |
| 16 | All that was assuming the government did not take direct action to dissolve the boards . |
| 17 | At Great Dunmow Inspector Martin Reed said often people did not take enough care when leaving their cars , which could remain unlocked , or with keys in the ignition . |
| 18 | Overall the 1986 Act made many detailed changes , it extended and rationalized means tests , but it did not take social security in the radical new direction that ‘ negative income tax ’ or ‘ social dividend ’ advocates were suggesting . |
| 19 | The mean extent of gastric metaplasia in 39 patients who were treated continuously ( >1 year ) with H 2 receptor antagonists was 19% ( range 0–88% ) and 15% ( range 0–88% ) in 53 patients who did not take these drugs . |
| 20 | ‘ Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
| 21 | Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
| 22 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 23 | That is to say , I did not take sufficient account of the fact that at that time of the day , what Mr Farraday enjoys is a conversation of a lighthearted , humorous sort . |
| 24 | The criticisms were not specific : British people were not well enough trained in comparison with people from some other countries , their training did not take sufficient account of what employers wanted , there was too little emphasis on the connection between the launching of new enterprises and the training of people in readiness for and in order to follow the consequences of those launches — and the absence of collaborative management in the past had led to poorly organized training . |
| 25 | In this case we did not take sufficient care . |
| 26 | JOANNA Greenside did not take any chances . |
| 27 | But he told me he did not take any clubs abroad with him . ’ |
| 28 | The people who heard the rumour and did not take any action are as guilty as the man who used the clenbuteriol . |
| 29 | I have checked with our Information Services manager and he tells me that Wimpey did not take any photographs of military airfields prior to or during the war years . |
| 30 | As his title suggests , his conclusions were based simply on reason ; in other words , they did not take any account of observations of the universe . |