Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] not take " in BNC.

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1 First , although it may not take very long for a trained and experienced therapist to analyse a transcript using LARSP , the procedure itself is relatively technical and is likely to take some time to learn from scratch ( Connolly 1979 ) .
2 It announced that it would not be concerned with the public sector and that it would not take over the extant SORPs from the Accounting Standards Committee .
3 Original signatories : Albania ( withdrew 1968 ) ; Bulgaria ; Czechoslovakia [ see below ] ; East Germany ( withdrew in September 1990 prior to unification with West Germany ) ; Hungary ( declared in June 1990 that it would not take part in military exercises in 1990 and that it intended to withdraw from the Pact by the end of 1991 ) ; Poland [ see below ] ; Romania ; Soviet Union .
4 Where appropriate the court can expressly prohibit examination or assessment or state that it shall not take place unless the court directs otherwise ( s38(7) ) .
5 On passing a sentence of imprisonment of two years or less the Act empowered a court to suspend the sentence by ordering that it should not take effect unless during a specified period the offender committed another offence punishable by imprisonment .
6 It does not have all the features of a full paint package but this means that it will not take up megabytes of hard disc space .
7 I received a letter this morning from the social security office stating that it can not take anything off the income support of one woman who is being pursued for arrears because she is too poor .
8 But Planck 's quantum principle tells us that each gamma ray quantum has a very high energy , because gamma rays have a very high frequency , so it would not take many quanta to radiate even ten thousand megawatts .
9 Labour had not won the argument over how to run a capitalist economy better than the Conservatives , so it could not take on its detractors — and that was because it had not thought through how it should be done .
10 ‘ Rain is forecast and it would not take too much more to have the meeting cancelled , ’ said Plumpton clerk of the course Cliff Griggs yesterday , while overnight rain would also put Sedgefield in jeopardy .
11 Having a will professionally drawn up is not a terrible ordeal and it need not take long to explain your wishes .
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