Example sentences of "do [not/n't] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take a mathematical genius to work out that — with 59 clauses still to go — this was not brilliant progress . |
| 2 | There was nothing , even Nature , that did not take a side . |
| 3 | It is a tribute to the efficacy of Daynurse ( recommended by his driver ) , and the restorative powers of malt whisky ( a present for his 50th birthday ) that the campaign did not take a more visible toll . |
| 4 | Richard Chauncy 's eldest son William Henry ( 1728–1788 ) was matriculated at Oxford on 17 March 1743–4 , but did not take a degree . |
| 5 | The group did not take a big advance . |
| 6 | But it did not take a sharp journalistic instinct to realise that for refugees — particularly young refugees — life could never be that simple . |
| 7 | In nine cases out of ten , it did not take a professional analyst to detect the cause of the problem . |
| 8 | Mercifully the illness did not take a long course . |
| 9 | ‘ No man to upset and it did not take a great deal to upset him . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Francis Maginn did not take a prominent part in the affairs of the BDDA after its formation . |
| 14 | Tessa did not take a taxi . |
| 15 | His presence was not continuous as he was entered again as a scholar commoner in 1571 , but did not take a degree . |
| 16 | His father retired in 1813 to London , and Auldjo was educated at Atwood 's School in Hammersmith , and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he matriculated as a pensioner in 1823 but did not take a degree . |
| 17 | Eva , who felt she owed all she was , and had achieved , to her mother did not take a great deal of convincing . |
| 18 | did not take a view or action regarding the adequacy of the Regional five year land supply ; |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | The House did not take a decision on the Bill or express a view on it . |
| 21 | The school did not take a very romantic view of these broad assessments : teachers knew when sanctions had to be applied but they were also aware that pupils realized the power of reward . |
| 22 | England 's first choice spinners , Emburey and Tufnell , did not take a wicket between them until the third day of the third Test . |
| 23 | Derrida 's reply did not take the form of a reasoned rebuttal but of ninety pages of verbal clowning , which put Searle in his place by referring to him throughout as ‘ Sarl ’ , an acronym for ‘ Societé à responsabilité limitée ’ , which means a limited company . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For the most part people did not take the question seriously ; it was the characteristic passion of young men in the grip of recent learning , or policemen temporarily possessed by the Libyan officials ' variety of amok . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Times were hard , and society did not take the same enlightened view of illegitimate children that it does today . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But wordings which did not take the shape of a request also soon came to be accepted . |