Example sentences of "[noun sg] do not take " in BNC.

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1 Firms that are hopeful about the future do not take such measures .
2 I get the impression that the poet did not take death seriously , did not quite believe in it .
3 It was reputed to be one of Europe 's most disordered cities , and there was scarcely a year in which some rioting did not take place .
4 And a murder did not take place . "
5 Theft did not take place until the accused did the unauthorised act .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Such cross-terms can not occur in a system that directly represents a chemical reaction , and the variables represent concentrations : the concentration of one chemical species can not be directly decreased by a process in which that chemical does not take part [ 36 ] .
9 The points value of 5 ½ given in the Warhammer rulebook does not take these into account and is ( as astute players have pointed out ! ) a mistake .
10 The main concern of the vendor will be the commercial effect upon its business in approaching individuals for critical consents if completion does not take place because one or more have withheld their consent .
11 However , the vendor will wish to delay consultation until as near to completion as possible or he will risk affecting the morale of his workforce if completion does not take place .
12 If this is correct , the women 's calendar will be cut to 11 tournaments , though that figure does not take in the Solheim Cup or the New World Cup to be held in Taiwan .
13 Government figures maintain that 250m would be collected from books at 17 ½%; VAT , but this figure does not take into account rebates to the public sector and reduced sales . ’
14 Eventually ( and assuming some kind of drastic disruption does not take place ) a given space tends to settle down into a state of balance .
15 It is very important going into Easter that disruption does not take place .
16 There is a second form of reciprocity where the reciprocal action does not take the same form as the insult .
17 Scientific research does not take place in isolation ; the communities within which new discoveries take place , and among whose members these discoveries are communicated , are recognisable social groups .
18 Practice does not take place in a vacuum , and may be implicitly based on contingent theories which allow few across-the-board answers or approaches .
19 In one company , however , the corporate planning department does not take any online services but has access to such services via a divisional library .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Employees in the private sector do not take profits home .
24 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 .
25 Moreover , management did not take the opportunities presented by the new machinery to tighten control over production .
26 A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers .
27 ‘ We have two wills on file , ’ Timothy Hutton said , reaching the end of whatever internal debate he had been having , ‘ but the second , which was made in anticipation of her marriage to Mr Hawick , can not of course be submitted for Probate since that marriage did not take place .
28 This process of discovery did not take long .
29 In the Soviet Union most funds are channelled into Olympic sport , and because rugby does not take part in the Olympics we get a very small proportion from the budget . ’
30 This means that if the voluntary sector does not take action , virtually nothing gets done .
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