Example sentences of "[Wh det] could [be] take " in BNC.

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1 He tried to make a set which could be taken on a motor bike .
2 Macintosh Plus , which could be taken on site to encourage the full participation of the client group .
3 Generally there are three courses of action which could be taken :
4 Without the fourth gospel there were very few sayings which could be taken as directly expressing what Jesus ' own self-understanding might have been ; for most of these statements are in it , not in the synoptics .
5 Many problems which we are prepared to treat as bipolar have ramifications which could be taken into account if they were thought to be as important as the impact of the decision on the two contestants .
6 Chomsky gave an indication of the narrowness of view which could be taken , when , immediately before his conclusion that ‘ grammar is autonomous ’ , he stated :
7 ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) .
8 The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order .
9 The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court .
10 The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court .
11 There was some discussion as to hardship , but that could cut both ways according to whether a large or small part was surrendered , so that hardship was not a matter which could be taken into account .
12 The navy in the nineteenth century may have been an Insurance policy for free trade , but Pax Britannica was not something which could be taken for granted , even by Victorian Britons .
13 I did not receive an answer , but the sum involved would have been about 10p a pint , which could be taken off the retail price and still leave brewers with a profit .
14 A resolution of this issue , which is not a pressing matter , would need also to take account of the fact that speakers do , in practice , use sentences which could be taken as instances of a third possible equational type ( if this is not to be regarded as merely some kind of linguistic jeu d'esprit ) : ( 37 ) cautiously is the way we should proceed In both of these two cases , the question is whether a property concept can fill a position which would otherwise be reserved for an entity .
15 Adverse movement in either would lessen the number of hours which could be taken as play , but still would not dictate precisely which hours had to be worked .
16 He was still distressed , however , by the prolific trade in mutton bird feathers , two-and-a-half tons of which could be taken in a season — the produce of roughly 112,000 birds — and which would be sold for about 6d per pound in Launceston .
17 A prohibited steps orderwhich provides that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child , and which is of the kind specified in the order , shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court .
18 OUTPUT inched up again in the fourth quarter of 1992 for the second quarter running , which could be taken to mean the recession has formally ended .
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