Example sentences of "that it [vb mod] take the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having announced that it would take the stand , however , the department feared the consequences of backing down . |
| 2 | The target date of 1992 was chosen for the completion of the single market and it was thought that it would take the lifetime of two Commissions to complete the programme . |
| 3 | The mother in yesterday 's case , Audrey Hamilton , said she was pleased at the outcome but knew that it may take the country 's highest civil court , the House of Lords , to resolve the issue finally . |
| 4 | Under the deal , the Community will have to prove that it should take the decision , rather than the other way round as originally feared . |
| 5 | Here , in ( ii ) , the utterance provides the clue : B has to go to Edinburgh ; thus if A and B are both far from Edinburgh ( and mutually know this ) , so that it will take the rest of the day to travel and do things there , then B is busy today ; sob is indirectly producing a reason why he or she ca n't easily come to see A , and in so doing can be understood to be refusing A's request . |