Example sentences of "a [noun sg] did not take " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a murder did not take place . " |
| 2 | He said that the reserve powers to make pension orders would be used to secure existing pension rights if a subsidiary did not take the steps that , the Secretary of State considered appropriate to secure the pension rights of its employees . |
| 3 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 4 | The fact is , such a fusion did not take place . |
| 5 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 6 | BT conceded that , if a merger did not take place , the System X collaboration could also exist if either company purchased the other company 's interests or if a joint company were set up . |