Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun sg] [modal v] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if increases in the other greenhouse gases are taken into account , the equivalent of that doubling will take place in or about 2030 . |
| 2 | The outcome of that debate will take a while to sort out . |
| 3 | The winners of that game should take the title ( although others , such as Bridgend are still in with a shout ) and that will be a powerful incentive . |
| 4 | Despite this Drife should take heart from the cartoons in the journals . |
| 5 | Earlier in the day the spokesman had forecast that talks of some form could take place this week after the first week of the strike produced nothing in the way of dialogue . |
| 6 | The Home Secretary has indicated that State-run prisons of this standard may take about 20–25 years to achieve . |
| 7 | Any review of the makings of this conflict must take account of the wider world in which the belligerents lived , of which some of the more important features were : the rivalry of the superpowers ; the Arab-Israeli conflict ; Islamic resurgence ; the struggle for Arab world dominance ; the world of oil and the emergence of OPEC ; the Kurds ; the political evolution of the Gulf states ; Turkey and Afghanistan 's position on the fringe of events ; and the vicissitudes of the US dollar . |
| 8 | I only wish and I mean this very sincerely I only wish we could spend as much time and as often as is spent discussing fox hunting on the county 's homeless , on abused children , on the handicapped , on the increasing crime and on unemployment and I only wish that the media and the public and even members of this council would take as much notice of that as they do about this debate on fox hunting . |
| 9 | A house of this size could take two men six months to thatch , and it might - need to be re-ridged every five years or so and re-thatched every twenty to thirty years . |
| 10 | Some of this work will take place in the classroom , some of it during drama time . |
| 11 | O normally a meeting of this type should take twenty minutes . |
| 12 | Those who demand strict realism in fiction of this kind might take the same extreme view as Patrick O'Brian 's sardonic Dr Maturin who , in discussing the Spithead Mutiny with his more conventional friend Captain Aubrey , pronounces himself in favour of the rebellion : |
| 13 | The economic and constitutional rights of the republics , at the same time , should be increased and defined more precisely ; but any changes of this kind must take account of the fact that each of the republics was itself a multinational state in which the interests of all national groups must be properly respected . |
| 14 | Modern studies of this kind can take into account many fine-grained features of both the physical and the social environment . |
| 15 | I expect it must be obvious that a serious , in-depth review of this instrument would take many more pages than are available here . |
| 16 | Review of this arrangement would take place in 1996 . |
| 17 | In any case as aforesaid the provisions of this Article shall take effect . |
| 18 | In any case as aforesaid the provisions of this Article shall take effect . |
| 19 | Russell does not say what form the ‘ complicated arguments ’ about the validity of this argument might take , but the chapter in which it occurs is entitled ‘ Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description ’ , so it is reasonable to suppose that one thing that was bothering Russell was the possibility that a person who meaningfully uses the word ‘ I ’ does so in virtue of knowing something which he calls ‘ I ’ not by acquaintance , but by description . |
| 20 | The transmission of such exempla could take any form from the imitation of an exemplum heard or read to the compilation and dissemination of greater or lesser collections of exempla intended , for a variety of possible reasons , to provide a wide-ranging , or even comprehensive , corpus of moral precept . |
| 21 | ‘ A magistrates ' court shall not try an information summarily or hear a complaint except when composed of at least two justices unless the trial or hearing is one that by virtue of any enactment may take place before a single justice . |
| 22 | Marie McCluskey , who runs the Thamesdown Dance Centre , says people of any age can take up dance . |
| 23 | ‘ Checking into that organization may take months . |
| 24 | Simply visit the office , pick up a guide book , and a walk along this line will take you past every major sight in the city ! |
| 25 | The work required to implement recommendations under this heading may take longer than the overall planning process . |
| 26 | However , acquiring a taste for less salt may take time in order to become used to a low-salt taste . |
| 27 | The Teesside TransPennine link is part of a series of changes now under way or in the pipeline for local services : — Northallerton and Thirsk will get hourly trains to York , Leeds , Manchester and Liverpool instead of two hourly ; — One train a day in each direction will take in Stockton , Hartlepool and Sunderland , terminating at Newcastle ; — The Monday to Saturday Darlington to Hartlepool service , barely used and regularly cancelled , will be axed next month . |
| 28 | One train a day in each direction will take in Stockton , Hartlepool and Sunderland , terminating at Newcastle . |
| 29 | From where I 'm sitting ( in a Paris café as it happens , pal , limbering up for the days 500cl — I mean 500 word slog ) , a rest in that sense would take the form of a couple of shifts in a Bolivian tin mine — and Club Med do n't fly there . |
| 30 | Any property owner in this position should take immediate advice as action may be necessary both to ensure that the rateable value is as low as possible , and that maximum advantage is taken of the empty rate provisions . |