Example sentences of "can take " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ideally we would like to go back to a site a few months after installation , for a meeting with senior management to show them how they can take advantage of the system , ’ Chudley says . |
| 2 | Grilled beef can take any style providing that it 's not too sweet ( as German mustards are ) or flavoured with an unsuitable herb such as dill . |
| 3 | Rita can go on for her , and Jack 's understudy can take over as the maid , Rita 's part — we 'll make it a footman . |
| 4 | And Dicky can take over as a footman — he may need a few lines changed here and there . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You girls can take the others . ’ |
| 6 | Because they 're a private school , they can take anybody they like — which is me in this case . ’ |
| 7 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 8 | How much they can take in depends partially on the structure of their leaves . |
| 9 | Man can take the responsibility for birth control . |
| 10 | It can take many ejaculations to clear sperm already in tube . |
| 11 | The good news is that you can take steps to prevent heart attacks happening to you and your family . |
| 12 | Usually the field trip is still an episodic visit to somewhere else , geographically to another culture from which the analyst can take leave or bring visitors too . |
| 13 | Maybe I can take , sometime I can take , but I ca n't take no from you . |
| 14 | Maybe I can take , sometime I can take , but I ca n't take no from you . |
| 15 | But you can take it as read that you have the contract . ’ |
| 16 | It seems unlikely that experience can take us outside of the closed circle of experience to reveal that upon which experience — experience in general , rather than particular experience — is based . |
| 17 | In his 14 years as president , both tennis in general and the ITF in particular have undergone enormous development and Mr Chatrier can take much of the credit for the changes which have taken place . |
| 18 | The amount of protein and carbohydrate in the diet will determine how much repair and development can take place , and also how much energy is available to train with . |
| 19 | Some of them may be less careful with it than others so we need machines that can take a battering . |
| 20 | Before the funeral can take place the funeral director must have the burial or cremation certificates . |
| 21 | Before a cremation can take place three statutory forms have to be completed , one by next of kin , the others by two different doctors . |
| 22 | Age Concern wishes to see safeguards against abuse , exploitation and neglect of duty for those who can take decisions plus procedures for those who can not do so . |
| 23 | These can take place anywhere by the correct use of the bones , joints , tendons , ligaments and muscles . |
| 24 | Grands jetés en avant require a spring onwards from one foot to the other and can take on many forms . |
| 25 | Ashton too has created two oriental styled ballets in which the delicacy of the hands and arms drew attention to the way such subtle movements can take the place of words . |
| 26 | But we can take heart from the fact that , apart from Germany , Britain enjoys the greatest choice and variety of beers in Europe . |
| 27 | He can take some comfort in the fact that , while his mistress works on becoming music 's ‘ Name of the 90s ’ , he can fully indulge his passion for roast chicken . |
| 28 | Best alternatives for holidaying dog owners have traditionally been kindly neighbours or kennels , but a York-based hotel chain say you can take it with you ( your pup , that is ) . |
| 29 | It 's not the severity that worries him but his inability to universalize the verdict and therefore take it to himself as he can take ‘ Vous l'avez voulu , Georges Dandin , ’ the thing of Molière 's Dostoevsky liked to quote . |
| 30 | As an American commentator has remarked of Eagleton , ‘ You can take the boy out of Cambridge , but you ca n't take Cambridge out of the boy . ’ |