Example sentences of "have not taken [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions , such as the cephalosporin antibiotics , and has not taken on enough risky new ventures . |
| 2 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 3 | The export market has not taken up the slack , so redundancies are coming thick and fast . |
| 4 | Hearing society , however , has not taken up this responsibility nor seen that all society 's members have a right of access to society 's knowledge . |
| 5 | Eight years ago , the council gave Burton Property Trust permission to build a multi-storey car park as part of the Cornmill but it has not taken up the option . |
| 6 | He will use the platform provided by the Tory Women 's Conference to try to reassure the Tory Right that the Left has not taken over the Government . |
| 7 | However , even with the tens of millions of personal computers and workstations in use around the world , networking and network usage still has n't taken off in a big way , the report says , because two things are needed : multi-tasking operating systems and the means to develop client-server applications . |
| 8 | However , even with the tens of millions of personal computers and workstations in use around the world , networking and network usage still has n't taken off in a big way , the report says , because two things are needed : multi-tasking operating systems and the means to develop client/server applications . |
| 9 | At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter . |
| 10 | Morton had not taken up arms previously , but he knew that some of his friends would have gone to the conventicle and would have volunteered to take part in the unequal contest against the soldiers . |
| 11 | She was grateful that Sylvie had not taken up the Princesse 's invitation to join them for the holidays and , a little guiltily , that Leo had n't either . |
| 12 | Thank goodness , she thought , she had not taken up his hinting last night . |
| 13 | The ruling PSOE retained an effective majority of one , however , because one HB deputy , Angel Alcalde , who was on the run from the police , had not taken up his seat . |
| 14 | The party strengths in the House of Commons after all these by-elections ( excluding the Speaker and the Chairman and two Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means ) were : Conservatives 369 , Labour 228 , Liberal Democrats 21 , OUP 9 , SNP 5 , social democrats 3 [ see below ] , Plaid Cymru 3 , SDLP 3 , DUP 3 , UPUP 1 , and Sinn Féin 1 ( although Adams had not taken up his seat as Sinn Féin MP ) . |
| 15 | In cases where the respondent is a non-governmental body , it may be possible to ask whether there is evidence that if the respondent had not taken on the function in question , the government would have . |
| 16 | By their mid teens young people were able to earn , and were sexually mature , but had not taken on independent economic responsibilities . |
| 17 | William Guthrie , owner of the New Albert , said it was sad that the catering facility had not taken off . |
| 18 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |
| 19 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 20 | This was closed three years ago — Peter Craine , Rabbit 's vice president for marketing and sales , explains that the firm then did n't have any national language support for its MS-DOS products ; also , Unix — Rabbit 's favoured environment — had n't taken off in quite the way the firm had expected . |
| 21 | I 'd forgotten there was a new pair in the wardrobe with , still with the labels on I had n't taken off . |
| 22 | ‘ Manchester United have not taken on a troublemaker or an enfant terrible — they have bought a personality and a man capable of magic in his boots . ’ |
| 23 | Meanwhile New Scientist understands that ministers have not taken up the offer of the Greenfield committee to hold further meetings to consider the issues of generic drugs further . |
| 24 | So far — perhaps because of difficulty in finding a sufficiently masochistic emissary — the Americans have not taken up the suggestion . |
| 25 | Now , he said , while small companies are able to take advantage of small but cheap schemes such as that operated by the IoD , there are also very few major companies that have not taken out this type of insurance . |
| 26 | You have n't taken up any of those plans about the boxing-match , he said . |
| 27 | The song is , it appears , about the lack of sex education in schools , a subject which we at Public NME feel is indeed worthy of airing , and what a shame more of our nation 's pop stars have n't taken up the musical cudgel , so to speak . |
| 28 | If my son and my daughter have n't taken up the same interest in art that I have , I see no reason that they should have , and I see no reason to tell them they ought to study this or they ought to do that . |