Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the stressed housewife may take rights 3 and 7 and decide that : ‘ I have the right to suggest to my elderly mother-in-law that she enquire about the possibility of a home-help , as the demands she is making on me are wearing me out ’ . |
| 2 | When they 're on song they 're a treat to watch and if they can play like this all the time Richard Hill and co may take some stopping next season . |
| 3 | The skin may take on a white , waxy appearance with thin slits or ‘ cuts ’ on the surface . |
| 4 | Formal or informal bargaining may take place across the boundaries of the corporation between unions and political authorities — ministries , governments and local or regional authorities . |
| 5 | A distinction is made between sales negotiations , where a certain amount of bargaining may take place , and pure selling , where the salesman is given no freedom to bargain . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that similar reactions may take place on background sulphate aerosols in the Antarctic stratosphere , but as yet there has been no unambiguous evidence for these reactions in the absence of polar stratospheric clouds ( although there have been observations of ozone loss attributed to volcanic aerosols ) . |
| 7 | Progress does not have a financial stake in Object Design as reported ( UX No 420 ) — confusion seems to have arisen over a plan under which Progress may take over all rights to Object Access . |
| 8 | In many underdeveloped African countries , cooking may take three-quarters of all energy . |
| 9 | The idea of combining two energy sources for cooking may take a bit of rethinking on the cook 's part initially . |
| 10 | However , neither government nor employers may take the kind of initiatives that would increase awareness of age discrimination in the workplace . |
| 11 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 12 | In exceptional cases the courts may take the view that established practice is unsatisfactory and find negligence . |
| 13 | Some indication of the position which the courts may take is provided by the recent , although pre-1989 Act , decision : |
| 14 | Very often the period is much longer and securing the requisite number of ratifications may take a decade more , if , indeed , this is achieved at all . |
| 15 | In return , I hope very much that you keep on telling us what you think about the alumni services we provide , telling us what 's going on in your professional world and how you think the University ought to take account of it . |
| 16 | It is time , now , to offer a conspectus of the positions which English adjectives may take , and what the functions of the adjectives appearing in them may be . |
| 17 | This means that Greatswords may take a lot of casualties before their turn comes . |
| 18 | This change may take the form of adding to the target text information which is not expressed in the source text . |
| 19 | The semantic constraint may take precedence over acoustic information . |
| 20 | One possibility under consideration is that this assessment may take the form of a project or assignment to be completed by the candidate . |
| 21 | This discrimination may take the form of bias in marking or the preferential treatment given to boys in the classroom . |
| 22 | Although the physico-chemical changes caused by the ionization of the atoms of living matter occur in a fraction of a second , the processes whereby these changes eventually lead to such changes in living matter as cell death , malignant tumours ( cancer ) , and genetic mutations may take hours , months , or even decades ( Coggle , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | The organisational or economic test re-affirmed in that case suggests that the UK courts ought to take a broader approach to the interpretation of the phrase ‘ transfer from one person to another of an undertaking ’ within reg 3(1) of the UK Regulations . |
| 24 | We Westerners may take them for granted as part of the furniture of any self-respecting office and available to all on every high street . |
| 25 | But in much of this work there is a tendency to imply that the Japanese system is flexible and responsive enough to correct the negative features , although the response may take longer in some cases than others . |
| 26 | If a school has to be defended in a head 's report , the defence may take the form of not providing as much information as governors would want . |
| 27 | As well as their own skilled observations , your doctor and midwife may take advantage of medical technology to help them see how your pregnancy is going . |
| 28 | The acquirer may take the view that if the limitations of liability give the seller a generous ‘ cushion ’ before a claim can be made , then no further qualification for materiality should be allowed . |
| 29 | Being irreplaceable is an important source of power in social systems , and groups may take steps to strengthen their indispensability . |
| 30 | ESA director general Reimar Luest retorted that US government space spending per person remained more than 10 times the level in Europe , and that space could not be left to private sector R&D : industry talks in terms of 6 or 7 years , whereas in space the returns may take 30 years . |