Example sentences of "[verb] [modal v] take [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With the pin correctly assembled into the hole then no interference exists , but touching may take place between any or all of the relating surfaces .
2 DAVE McAULEY has been given the go-ahead by a British Boxing Board doctor to resume full training after arm and foot injuries for his IBF flyweight title defence against Dodie Penalosa , of the Philippines , which the IBF insists must take place by 7 December .
3 DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months .
4 ‘ The sentence imposed must take account of public opinion and aim to leave all concerned with a feeling that justice has been done . ’
5 The details of how this happens must take account of the security interests of our neighbours and especially those of the Soviet Union . "
6 Like the thousands of birthday parties that we hope will take place on May the nineteenth .
7 Another kind of imprinting may take place in young salmon smolt .
8 Unless the client has something very pressing , that it is agreed must take precedence , the thought records from the previous week are reviewed at the beginning of the session .
9 There they could be near to RSSPCC centres where interviewing could take place ; and in those centres the Society 's social workers repeatedly interviewed and questioned the nine children they had taken away .
10 For example , in the case of the Pul Eliya wedding , I was not around to witness the business of pouring water over the veiled faces of the bride and bridegroom which I was told would take place and which is included in D'Oyly 's 1828 account .
11 Embracing the traumatic years of Vietnam , Kennedy , the Beatles and Watergate , Same Time , Next Year , by Bernard Slade , is a well-crafted comedy of social change and personal discovery that I predict will take root in the West End for long months to come .
12 Even patients who eventually recover may take years to do so , and they sometimes require several admissions .
13 Right , this process that I 'm about to do should take place on that table there , normally .
14 However and whenever it was first formulated , this pangenetic reduction of every mode of generation to micro-ovulo-gemmation could take inheritance , in so far as it was completely conservative , to be effected by an exact replication of a whole in all its parts ; so that variation , reversion and so on are explicable as disturbances , suspensions and complications of that fundamental replicative tendency .
15 In the early stages we were we you know used to take phone calls and take them at face value , and we got a phone call like this .
16 In July Burmin went on the offensive by issuing a circular on myths and facts relating to the mining , which suggested that gold mining could be turned into a tourist attraction , said no cyanide spills would take place , the visual impact on Croagh Patrick would be minimal and the Church was not opposed to the mining .
17 Well can I say first of all that the meeting to which you refer will take place this coming Monday and I suspect that it will be the first of possibly two or three meetings which I suspect are going to follow rather quickly , one after the other .
18 Measurement and subsequent payment for work executed may take place at weekly , monthly , or at random intervals and therefore may not be related to the date of the main contract valuation or the builder 's costing periods .
19 I hope that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will seize the opportunity provided by his next meeting with his Community colleagues — which I believe will take place very shortly — to reappraise the position , and to see whether the Governments of the Community could now decide to recognise Croatia and to tell the Yugoslavian federal Government that they can no longer be recognised as the legitimate Government of former federal territory .
20 As , as Councillor would have said , and I would remind members of Council that I believe that the Chief Officers of this Council still have pay related to their performance and I am sure that all members , not least the controlling group , will take will take note of that .
21 Once the sparring is over , both teams I feel will take risks .
22 This forms a stable platform , and further tipping can take place until the tip rises to 100 m or more and is shaped rather like a stepped pyramid .
23 BELOW The systematic searching for new sites and surface finds can take place over many different terrains , often to find out more about a landscape before it is destroyed .
24 Their immune systems are so damaged that colds and bugs which normally take a few days to clear can take weeks or months .
25 As a result , directives were issued that on flag-flying days hoisting should take place at 8 am .
26 There has been 12 letters of objection to the final stretch to Ballyduggan Mill lodged and it is expected that a meeting between all the parties involved will take place to see if there is some way of reconciling the objections .
27 I honestly do not believe ; hat the children I saw will take French in year four , nor that any of them will remember much , if anything , when they are twenty or more .
28 Both have long time constants ; what they do may take months or years to show results .
29 The major part of teaching , motivating and assessing what has been learned should take place outside the diabetic clinic .
30 This determines the educational structures we must encourage emphasising wider contacts rather than local parochialism and the debate we think should take place around local social action .
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