Example sentences of "well take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teaching well takes time and often yields little tangible reward . |
| 2 | Interpreting the music well takes hours of listening to discover its subtleties of phrasing , rhythm and mood ; then more time should be spent on experimentation until the music and movement are so closely connected that the movement does n't work without its music . |
| 3 | Your Road Fund Licence and insurance will have to be renewed and getting these organised may well take a week or two , especially if your car is over three years old and your MoT certificate lapsed during your absence . |
| 4 | ‘ You might as well take the whole lot , the orange and all , ’ said Philip . |
| 5 | These activities could well take place in other areas , but the impression given in Team D was that this kind of informal or semi-formal engagement with vulnerable sections of the community , recorded only patchily , constituted a prominent part of the social work approach . |
| 6 | It may well take at least the lifetime of a Parliament to put things right , but Labour will start immediately . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , since everyone 's giving speeches , I may as well take a turn , ’ he said , and it was at once apparent from his voice that he had had a good deal to drink . |
| 8 | Should you know your cholesterol level , after you may well take your pulse or heart rate regularly when you have been out running , so why not ‘ know your cholesterol number ’ as the Americans would say ? |
| 9 | They do , however , run a yearly course in sexually transmitted diseases in Santiago , but it may well take more than that to make any impression at all on disease levels . |
| 10 | However , he had bought land from the New Zealand and Australia Land Company on good terms and he thought he might as well take the chance of a place while he could . |
| 11 | It may seem that the above methods are too time-consuming when one could just as well take every nth name from the list for one 's sample . |
| 12 | It may well take only a quarter of an hour to train a worker in the future but industry is also going to have to change how it treats that worker . |
| 13 | I might as well take your details . ’ |
| 14 | And now , as we 've quarrelled like this , I ca n't very well take your milk and butter , can I ? |
| 15 | Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice . |
| 16 | It may well take time for the church planting team to see fruit of this kind . |
| 17 | If a Champagne house buys its requirements in the form of must ( as opposed to grapes ) , débourbage might well take place at both the presshouse and the winery . |
| 18 | Our unequal arms might well take up the difference in line lengths when flying one way ; but the perverse nature of our natural reactions does n't allow the same correction when flying the other way . |
| 19 | For example , if the optimal solution of the LP has 40 non-integer components , there are 2&sup40 ; or about 10¹2 ; solutions to test and this could well take years , even on a very fast computer . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , ’ said Mrs Fletcher , 'now that you 're here you might as well take the jersey and socks . |
| 21 | There is likely , for example , to be a progression away from blue-collar jobs to white-collar or service occupations , but these could well take on more of the character which factory work has had in the past , if the tendency is not resisted . |
| 22 | But victory will see them as serious threats to England 's hopes of making it to the finals in 1994 and Gullit may well take Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti 's offer to join Gazza . |
| 23 | The not altogether clear provisions regarding audit , finality and certainty mean that adjustments could well take place long after a partner has left a firm . |
| 24 | You might as well take money and shovel it down the drain . |
| 25 | The young office worker in a safe sedentary job may well take up rock-climbing as a dangerous , physically exacting antidote for the dull occupational part of his life . |
| 26 | However , he will always know that his performance on a simulator is being assessed and , except for the business of risks , he may well take more care than he would in a real plant . |
| 27 | A despot might well take his or her dreams seriously , just as he would be deeply interested in any other of his own bodily functions , as would his courtiers . |
| 28 | We might as well take our time and make quite sure where we 'd like to have them . |
| 29 | Gardens which have been carefully designed and closely planted may appear to be unsuitable for additional plantings of herbs , but a herbaceous border , for instance , which needs to be re-dug every few years , with some of its incumbents divided or discarded , can well take some herbal plants , to supply flowers and/or architectural quality . |
| 30 | If they belong to the party that wins power they may well take on a government office of some kind . |