Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] take a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that Greatswords may take a lot of casualties before their turn comes . |
| 2 | Whether they value their police service enough or not and whether it needs more money or not to do a good job or whether the authorities should take a look at how it is being run . |
| 3 | Doctors , patients , and law-enforcing authorities should take a note of this warning and patients should ascertain that the Ayurvedic medicines they are taking do not contain anything other than Ayurvedic medicine . |
| 4 | Candidates must take a total of five mandatory core skills modules , although the personal and interpersonal skills module may be chosen from a choice of two . |
| 5 | Even the heyday of tomb-robbing was over ; his scavenging could n't be called by such a piratical name and the local labourers could not be inspired to sift the soil scrupulously when they could break it with a pickaxe so much faster , and the mounted overseers might take a crack at them with a rifle butt if they dawdled . |
| 6 | When it comes to optional modules , candidates will take a total of nine module credits from one of four optional groups covering agriculture , horticulture , forestry , and the environment and conservation . |
| 7 | The animals will take a lot of care . |
| 8 | In other words , three generations might take a family from hard toil through private education to gilt-edged respectability . |
| 9 | Popular places to visit are the historic town of Lancaster with its medieval castle and maritime museum , and , for railway enthusiasts Steamtown at Carnforth , where visitors can take a ride on a steam locomotive . |
| 10 | Perhaps western Governments should take a lead from the United States of America , which terminated its aid programme to Pakistan on the ground that it refuses to desist from non-civilian nuclear development . |
| 11 | Most reputable dealers will take a computer to pieces for you . |
| 12 | However customers should take a break from the beach and visit two of Paestum 's most famous sights , the Bascilica and the temple of Neptune , ancient Greek architecture at its finest . |
| 13 | The most he would concede was that positions should be filled by the advice of the lords and the council around the king , and that officers should take an oath in parliament to act justly . |
| 14 | And she warned that not all viewers will take a shine to their taste for booze , cocaine and bed-hopping . |
| 15 | At present , truckers can take a load from one country to another but face obstacles , as do airlines , in picking up a second load to take on to a third country . |
| 16 | The Aquitania 's 3,230 passengers could take a dip in a swimming pool decorated with Egyptian motifs and surrounded by columns , or enjoy an after-dinner cigarette in the seventeenth-century Carolean smoking room . |
| 17 | 6 ) Some of our constituents may be alarmed at the implications of page 3 para 3 , not so much on the question of ‘ equality ’ but of accountability , and the suggestion that Christian Aid should be required to be accountable to our partners would take a lot of explaining . |
| 18 | Such scars will take a lot of healing . |
| 19 | Labour Members should take a journey from Stepney through Bolsover to Chesterfield , ending up at Hemsworth , where there are two Labour candidates , with two different views on Europe , in the by-election . |
| 20 | Mr Ramsay said sorting out Mr Bond 's finances would take a team of accountants at least a year , with the investigation stretching around the world . |
| 21 | Half of the respondents would take a camera to an event where the Royal Family was present . |
| 22 | All pupils would take a core of academic subjects , but there 's no suggestion that academic children should learn technical skills . |
| 23 | Girls can be encouraged to take modules in technology without feeling they are committing themselves to two years ' or more work ; low achieving pupils can take a range of modules without suffering the indignity of following a programme that marks them out as ‘ different ’ . |
| 24 | Foot travellers can take a tram from the main railway station to Albisguetli , then walk to Uetliberg-Kulm ( 2,756ft , 871m ) . |
| 25 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 26 | Now that Kilwinning has mushroomed from being a small village to having a population of almost 16,500 , it is to be hoped that some of the new residents will take an interest in the town 's historic past and will ensure the continued existence of the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers and the papingo shoot . |
| 27 | Company meetings can take a number of linguistic forms : the formal use of international ( or ‘ off-shore ’ ) English at the negotiating table , with informal exchanges in other languages ; meetings in the language of the country ( perhaps with interpretation at least of the whispered type ) or multi-lingual meetings where each participant contributes in his own language . |
| 28 | Tractors may take a fraction of the time to do the job . |