Example sentences of "could take [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half life of the parietal cell is 23 days in rats and presumably much longer in man and therefore it could take many months for resoluion of an increased parietal cell mass . |
| 2 | Both organisations had as their chief promoter Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld , a brave and dedicated man who could take personal credit for bringing out some 250 children from Vienna and Berlin . |
| 3 | ‘ The next step was to split the project into manageable categories where individuals could take specific responsibility for producing and getting acceptance for a group of procedures . ’ |
| 4 | A spokesman for Pilkington , the major glass manufacturer , said yesterday that it could take several weeks for new windows to be installed . |
| 5 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 6 | Woodhill took its first inmates last summer.It cost forty million pounds and was intended to be part of a new wave of prisons with just one inmate per cell and in which the prisoner could take more reponsibility for his own welfare . |
| 7 | Through the use of school self-evaluation with pupil involvement , school communities could take more responsibility for maintenance and cleaning of school premises and at the same time improve pupil attitudes through raising awareness of social and environmental issues . |
| 8 | One teacher in a cluster group could take special responsibility for history and might carry out liaison , sharing the fruits with other teachers . |