Example sentences of "could take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I suggested that she could take the two pages if she wanted , for her reference .
2 Erm because the report is er quite a long report mainly the er part of the report erm I will pick out the most important comments and if I could take the first part of the report first erm this concerns a new staffing structure between er , newly emerged welfare rights and advice service .
3 I wonder if we could ask we could take the other reports first chair ?
4 Within the year there was money made available for projects which could take the broad skills of a science like genetic manipulation and give them a saleable medical application .
5 At thirty-two years of age , Chrissie Stone could take the occasional shock to her system , but this was the fourth time in two weeks that she had slept late , and it was beginning to get her down .
6 And we could take the causal theory in this way .
7 He agreed and said he would train me so that I could take the necessary exams .
8 The Secretary of State could take the necessary steps to give people a 100 per cent .
9 The search for goodness could take the new hero into academia and out again , despairing of its false intellectualism and its established assumption that to be intelligent is only and always to be an intellectual .
10 The first point is the Revenue could take the simple point that as a matter of law no credits are available to the beneficiaries .
11 The less energetic could take the easy walk to the cable car and ride to the summit of Mount Mottarone .
12 This covers a large portion of flat land and could take the largest planes available , even by today 's standards .
13 There 's reasons for it , of course … there always are … but she could take the wrong step … out of cussedness . ’
14 I honestly think you could take the same script but reshoot it with women and it would work .
15 Clearly , a member of parliament who could take the foul-mouthed uncle William far from the laird of Craigie 's children might legitimately expect the memory of such a favour to persist for an election or two .
16 " I could take the whole lot . "
17 So if we could collect it all up together and when we are going down we could take the whole lot down out of the way .
18 Imagine how lovely it would be — you could take the whole family and make a day of it .
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