Example sentences of "the [noun sg] do not take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reduction does not take account of further savings of £19.6 million which the council requires to make if it is to avoid having its expenditure capped by the Scottish Secretary . |
| 2 | ‘ When the liquor does not take hold , the soul of a man is rotten in him . ’ |
| 3 | 2.11 If the Inspection does not take place or if following the Inspection the relevant Certificate is not issued the Landlord shall procure that the same is not subsequently issued unless notice has again been given to the Surveyors in accordance with clause 2.10 ( which procedure shall be repeated as often as necessary until the relevant Certificate is issued ) |
| 4 | The ethnomethodologist does not take it for granted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fight did not take place , Surrey claiming that he was too lowly born to fight with a king ; and the fish garth remained . |
| 7 | Since the telex did not take effect in England , the English courts have no jurisdiction . |
| 8 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 9 | Firms that are hopeful about the future do not take such measures . |
| 10 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 11 | I get the impression that the poet did not take death seriously , did not quite believe in it . |
| 12 | Eanfrith and Osric are said by Bede to have reverted to paganism on their accession , but it may be that Paulinus and the queen did not take flight immediately upon the death of Eadwine but only on the death of Osric . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If the teacher does not take the trouble to present his class with reprographic material of an acceptably high standard , his students will be unlikely to take the trouble to try to read and understand it . |
| 16 | The teacher did not take these up but remained ‘ glued ’ to the program as an activity . |
| 17 | Assembly of the package did not take too long . |
| 18 | The water in the basins had a layer of ice on them , which had to be broken before the children could wash ; then , in the dining room they sat shivering , for the fire at the end of the room did not take even the chill away . |
| 19 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 20 | If the purchaser does not take on such persons and they are subsequently shown to be employees , they will be protected by the Transfer Regulations and the purchaser will be liable for any costs of redundancy or dismissal . |
| 21 | The group did not take a big advance . |
| 22 | The respondent did not take the opportunity to consult a solicitor until March 1989 , nor did he prior to then carry out or arrange for the carrying out of any investigations . |
| 23 | They had a young child , but the court did not take account of who would look after the child while they were in prison . |
| 24 | This shows that the actualization of the infinitive 's event is not what such sentences express , an analysis supported by Coates ( 1983 : 100 ) , who gives a similar argument for the meaning of can in her discussion of She can swim , and Palmer ( 1977 : 5 ) , who has pointed out that a sentence such as ( 12 ) is impossible because can " is not used to imply actuality in the past " : ( 12 ) * I ran fast and could catch the bus , Example ( 13 ) however is quite acceptable because it implies that the event did not take place , being seen merely as a possibility in the past ( i.e. a potentiality ) . |
| 25 | One possible explanation is that , if the cuckoo did not take an egg , the host might have too many eggs to incubate effectively . |
| 26 | The person doing it does have scientific training , and the MD is more difficult than a PhD in that the supervisor does not take part in the examination . |
| 27 | Though after a moment of considering her question , seemed to think that there was no harm in revealing , ‘ I believe the dog does not take well to city life — he is up at the house . ’ |
| 28 | The stringency with which the courts have applied the criteria of relevancy has varied in different areas and there has been an unwillingness to declare invalid administrative decisions simply because the applicant could point to one ‘ relevant ’ factor which the authority did not take into account . |
| 29 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 30 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |