Example sentences of "did not take a [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 | Of an extremely retiring disposition , he did not take an active part in public affairs . |
| 14 | 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 . |