Example sentences of "[not/n't] take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnosticism or scientific materialism was a poor thing which did not take the universe and its order seriously enough . |
| 2 | The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand . |
| 3 | Indenbaum did not take the proposition seriously , as he felt sure that Modi would have forgotten all about it in the morning , but Modigliani was insistent and asked Indenbaum if he had canvas and paint at home . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 5 | You can not take the plug off at all . |
| 6 | Natural fibres such as silk and wool do n't retain perspiration smells , and are the best insulators , but they may not take the moisture away after exercise . |
| 7 | If someone who is offered an obviously forged check believes that if the issue is litigated a court will lay down a rule denying recovery for the future and apply that rule against him , he will not take the check in the first instance , and society will have the benefit of the better rule without actually paying the costs of litigation or incurring the disadvantages of bad commercial practice before the case is litigated . |
| 8 | Some of these aspects may well combine in complex and inexplicable ways in the learning process and clearly the teacher can not take the chance of depriving learners of effective learning conditions on the grounds that they can not be explained or controlled . |
| 9 | Anyway as I indicated , we could not take the chance . |
| 10 | How strange that such an excellent king should not take the chance I was offering him ! |
| 11 | But wordings which did not take the shape of a request also soon came to be accepted . |
| 12 | ‘ I trust you will not take the contagion , ’ Anne said wearily , lying back pale and wan upon the pillows . |
| 13 | ‘ I am the pilot , I will not take the responsibility . |
| 14 | We have just got you well again , Jenna , and I can not take the responsibility of letting you out of my sight . ’ |
| 15 | Those who could not take the Pioneers at any price had the option of training for essential civilian work . |
| 16 | They should not take the attitude that ‘ risk management is someone else 's business ’ ; rather , they should take the initiative . |
| 17 | He would not take the crown ; therefore ‘ t is certain he was not ambitious |
| 18 | If he does , he should ask the helper simply to make sure that the cars stop for long enough to allow him to cross : the helper should not take the patient 's arm and hurry him across . |
| 19 | The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress . |
| 20 | This is not to suggest the players did not take the plays they performed seriously or that authors wrote any old thing as long as it pleased . |
| 21 | They were laughing again when he said , ‘ Well , I 'd better not take the shag . |
| 22 | I can not take the decision , ’ said the man from the airline . |
| 23 | Was she a child then still , that she could not take the decision for herself ? |
| 24 | If he does not take the decision before the election and if the Conservatives are re-elected , I am afraid that we shall lose another 100 jobs in Carlisle . |
| 25 | Er within the model , there is the provision to er not take the date which is issued with the model , but to allow for local correction factors and it er maybe that we 've got the locally correct death statistics in and our colleagues have n't got the local corrections . |
| 26 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 27 | Since Ferdinand 's instructions to the Junta of Government ( which he left in Madrid to govern while he was at Bayonne ) were to cultivate French friendship at all costs , and since these counsels were not modified until after the outbreak of a popular rising , it meant that official Spain could not take the leadership of the instinctive movement against France . |
| 28 | He would not take the money . |
| 29 | This meant that Mr Wright and the Darlington Cricket Club secretary Mr Brian Dobson could not take the West Indian official team portrait . |
| 30 | If we accept the internal validity of their study we should not take the findings beyond the limits they set down themselves . |