Example sentences of "[conj] can take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While all the steps and grids of a career lattice may exist in principle , in most instances only a small proportion of the paraprofessional work force have access to or can take advantage of existing formal training opportunities . |
| 2 | Tree shrews are a prime example of speciation , whereby a family branches out to create separate species that can take advantage of the many food niches in the rich tropical habitat . |
| 3 | To encourage developers to write more modular software that can take advantage of systems that support Threads — a Thread can be any part of an application or programme that is not dependent on the result or outcome of another ( that can be treated as a task in its own right ) — Posix has a committee working on a Threads application programming interface standard . |
| 4 | A Resistance group should use enemy weapons , or stuff that can take enemy ammo — and the Company just did n't have enough Russian gear then , in the early Fifties . |
| 5 | First he has to beat his former club , QPR , tomorrow night in the Coca-Cola Cup — a competition that can take Wednesday back into the UEFA Cup . |
| 6 | Eating disorders are a serious psychological problem that can take years to sort out . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a psychological problem that can take time to overcome , just as Arsenal found last season . |
| 8 | The third major change in the market has been the emergence , just as with the desktop publishing bureaux , of a number of imaging centres that can take files from any number of different programs and produce 35mm slides for around £5 each . |
| 9 | New phospholipid polymer coating may help to eliminate the adverse reactions that can take place between blood and certain material surfaces . |
| 10 | I saw the sense of this , though regretfully : there is very little real communication that can take place between one generation and another . |
| 11 | This details the acceptable forms of the linking that can take place by a set of pointers relating elements and routes through the structure . |
| 12 | This may be in the form of a restricted zone in which the linkage may not lie , a definition of the order in which positional modifications can take place , or of restrictions on the local or global energy changes that can take place . |
| 13 | While the local residents might tolerate the noise and disruption from an occasional late night party , some limitation needs to be set on the number of such functions that can take place . |
| 14 | it omits town centre office , it omits retail , it omits leisure , all the other types of employment generation that can take place . |
| 15 | She believes that there is nothing worse than marry without any affection but on the other hand it would be very absurd Lady Bertram points out to Fanny that it is every woman 's duty to marry a rich man but she is blinded to the fact that this is not the only improvement that can take place in a marriage . |
| 16 | We have negotiated specially reduced rates with Sealink , and can take bookings for the following routes : |
| 17 | The law courts are venal and can take decades to decide a case . |
| 18 | The system has a 20,000-word vocabulary and can take dictation at 70 words per minute with 97% accuracy , once it has been trained to a user 's pronunciation . |
| 19 | The system has a 20,000-word vocabulary and can take dictation at 70 words per minute with 97% accuracy , once it has been trained to a user 's pronunciation . |
| 20 | Djinn are of another dimension but can take possession of all living things . |
| 21 | It takes about three hours to make a basic card , but can take weeks to produce the more exotic patterns . |
| 22 | Choices of ends , as of means , are debatable in terms of public tests ( of whether things are in fact as the agent imagines them , whether his reactions as observed in his behaviour are as he feels them to be ) , but can take account of public observations only to the extent that they are subjectively confirmed . |
| 23 | Thus , a bidder offering shares in itself as consideration for a takeover will be within the exemption so long as all the shareholders holding shares of the class offered for can take part in the arrangement . |