Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not [be] taken " in BNC.

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1 The fact that ECGD may have instructed them should not be taken as an endorsement of their expertise , official or otherwise .
2 ‘ I had rather expected before I went that I might not be taken seriously as a woman .
3 If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books .
4 She may not be taken out of Scotland without special permission . ’
5 But you must not be taken in by McLaren and Honda .
6 She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this .
7 She would not be taken in , of course ; but it might be difficult to refuse politely .
8 Mrs Mandela will appear in court on the 24th of September ; the attorney general says he has received an undertaking from her lawyer that she will cooperate with the investigation and she will not be taken into custody .
9 Er , so that 's okay to an extent , but obviously we 've got an approved list of building societies and banks , which we never used to have , but we 've realized that er since B C C I p particularly and the housing market as bad as it is , there are some building societies and banks who may be in difficulties , and if they go down erm then they may not be taken over .
10 In contrast , deliberate reformulations are designed to achieve particular contextual effects , and they should not be taken to indicate a failure to communicate any more than , for example , repetition .
11 Clause headings are inserted in this Agreement for convenience only , and they shall not be taken into account in the interpretation of this Agreement .
12 Clause headings are inserted in this Agreement for convenience only , and they shall not be taken into account in the interpretation of this Agreement .
13 Judgements made in the course of a lecture will be taken down in notes as if they were facts , whereas it is in the nature of critical judgements that they can not be taken over by others ; it is on this dilemma , I believe , that Leavisism ultimately foundered .
14 The explanations in the official report are so naive that they can not be taken seriously .
15 But it should not be taken too literally .
16 This includes knowing what time of day to take it , how long you should continue taking it ( just until you feel better or until the end of the full course ? ) , whether or not it has any side-effects ( such as drowsiness ) , and whether or not it should not be taken in conjunction with certain foods or alcohol .
17 Everyone feels the need nowadays to qualify the term ‘ Third World ’ , stating quite correctly that it should not be taken to imply a homogeneous entity .
18 But it should not be taken for granted that these types of programmes are the ideal and only way to approach health education , whether in schools or by health professionals .
19 Editor , — The short paper by B W Lloyd and P Barnett provides confirmation that problem list letters are welcome by their recipients , but it should not be taken to imply that these are a new invention .
20 Well , it should not be taken lying down .
21 The only other alternative would be for the court to disregard one of the clauses and hold that one party had , by conduct , accepted the other party 's terms and waived its own , including the provision providing that it should not be taken as accepting any other terms .
22 If the value of the property is to be taken into account with regard to estate agency fees , then there is no reason why it should not be taken into account in conveyancing fees , particularly since there is a larger element of responsibility and accountability in relation to the legal process of the sale as opposed to the estate agency .
23 Galileo 's comment was that though the Bible was the word of God it must not be taken too literally , word for word , being written not for intellectuals but for common people .
24 This view would appear to contain much sense ; but it must not be taken to the extreme .
25 It must not be taken that other potential measures of success are of less importance , merely that they are more difficult to quantify .
26 It could not be taken along with poor relief , and those with criminal records were excluded ; it was only available at seventy , not sixty ; and it was set at a very mean level , a mere five shillings , below the bare minimum which Seebohm Rowntree calculated was then needed for subsistence .
27 He need not be taken to a designated police station if it is not anticipated he will be detained for more than six hours or where the arresting officer is without help .
28 But the difficulty with this discussion is that it lacks a firm point of reference because it can not be taken for granted that there should be two levels of offence , rape and procuring sex by threats .
29 There are no gate-crashers ; it can not be taken by storm .
30 For these and other reasons , it can not be taken as axiomatic that the most extreme threats are the most effective .
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