"take cognisance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to careful consideration of facts and opinions before forming a judgement or making a decision. For example: The CEO of the company took cognisance of all the facts before making her decision.
If Westminster didn't bother to take cognisance either of the shuttlefolk, or of their Icarus-like fall, that was its funeral.
The Scotland manager's job has not yet become so hazardous that it must carry a health warning but Craig Levein's successor will naturally take cognisance of recent history.
However distasteful it may be for him, he should take cognisance of the fact that most of the world, including Israel's closest friends, see an end to settlement building as part and parcel of an end to ever escalating violence.
"One of Mary Whitehouse's favourite tricks," he writes, "was to refer neutrally to 'controversies' she herself had generated as if they were simply historical facts of which all must take cognisance".
"The wide earth will take cognisance of what thou didst attempt and achieve," the clergyman addressed the Haitian hopefully in his Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture (1850), "and pronounce thee a benefactor, not of thy colour, but of thy kind".
Yet to correlate that to Vogts's nationality would not take cognisance of the newspaper ridicule bestowed on George Burley and, to a lesser extent, Craig Levein as their respective periods in charge of the Scots unravelled.
"But if you say that 1 million people will die or 7 million will go hungry – are they really accurately taking cognisance of the entire situation?
But there is no doubt that the IRA leadership have taken cognisance of the British government's difficulties in finessing a deal with the unionists.
I suppose you can't prepare for a life of wedded bliss and even plan a family without taking cognisance of the sort of country you want to live in.
This novel design takes cognisance of the mechanisms and reasons for mechanical failure, thereby reducing occurrence of loss operation of RBC units and ensuring that the effluent continually meets discharge standards.
"Scottish Rugby believes we have acted in good faith in this matter and have also taken cognisance of an IRB ruling last year concerning two players who played for Wales under-20 against France under-20 in 2010 who now play for Connacht and are eligible for Ireland.
