Example sentences of "it [vb mod] not take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet in a public place it will not take up any space . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Has anyone said to you ‘ It will not take up much of your time , only a couple of hours on a Friday evening ’ ? |