Example sentences of "[modal v] take [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not a formal debate is held will depend on the purpose of the examination and a number of other factors , but it is obviously necessary to seek the client 's opinion before deciding the direction that a study should take once a number of problems have been identified . |
| 2 | It might take just a decision for St Albans oldest of the country by having changed the word received to . |
| 3 | Politicians , uncomfortable in the spotlight , publicly back some sort of reform package that might take away a few of their perks . |
| 4 | What do we do , you must take away everything that 's in the brackets , so we take away a twenty , so that 's the same as a minus twenty and then we 'll take away a minus one , signs are the same so it 's add one . |
| 5 | Informix says it 'll take around a year to productise SNI 's data dictionary , even though ERMS is already implemented for versions of the database which SNI supplies to customers under an existing marketing agreement the two have . |
| 6 | It 'll take around a year to see if the drug does help reduce the side effects of radiotherapy . |
| 7 | If they lose , it 'll take about a year to recover the cost of the inquiry in 6 penny tolls . |
| 8 | I 'll take quite a lot more interest in this competition now , and perhaps Sebastian here will get out of bed to train before school without being called six times — he only starts running practice about ten days before a competition , you know . |
| 9 | But it 'll take quite a long time for them to go though . |
| 10 | I 'll take quite a few egg sandwiches . |
| 11 | This means we could take away a lot of your rights and make many decisions about your child without you being involved . |
| 12 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 13 | In some places , it could take only a small shift to bring socialists back to power . |
| 14 | When those same pensioners understand that blanket commitments of that type will erode the extra money available to help the poorer end , they may take rather a different view . |
| 15 | Students may take either a full MA(Honours) degree in Sanskrit , in which case a subsidiary related language such as Prakrit is normally studied in the last two years of the course , or a joint MA(Honours) degree in Sanskrit and Greek , Latin or Linguistics , where both subjects are studied for all four years of the curriculum . |
| 16 | She may take quite a while adding up the wine list . ’ |
| 17 | The rehabilitation process may take quite a long period of time and will involve giving the patient enough support to boost his confidence and promote independence . |
| 18 | We 'll have to see how she responds to treatment , but it may take quite a long time . ’ |
| 19 | In practical terms , a checklist may take only a very short time to complete , providing that the teacher or therapist is familiar with the child being assessed . |
| 20 | The pack emphasises that , for most smaller employers , assessments need take only a few minutes ' observation and the use of common sense . |
| 21 | Actually it would be fairer just to say that , in comparison with the time it would take either a monkey or a randomly programmed computer to type our target phrase , the total age of the universe so far is a negligibly small quantity , so small as to be well within the margin of error for this sort of back-of-an-envelope calculation . |
| 22 | It was during this turbulent time that her bulimia nervosa , which would take nearly a decade to overcome , began . |
| 23 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 24 | It would take quite a , an exercise to actually find them and |
| 25 | Er er what the honourable gentleman , my honourable friend reads out is certainly my view er we will erm of course engage in any discussions on this subject that come up i in the council of ministers but it would take quite a lot of convincing I think to myself and my colleagues , that any other form of election would be an improvement on first past the post , erm and er the ar , no I wo n't give way cos I have about four minutes left and er I do want to make a couple of other points . |
| 26 | From this FitzGerald could be in little doubt as to the likely course the bishops would take once a referendum campaign got under way . |
| 27 | ‘ And , curiously enough , it would take only a comparatively small rise in wage rates to make an enormous impact on the problem . ’ |
| 28 | The following exercise would take only a few minutes every day . |
| 29 | It would take only a minor leap of faith , a moment of transcendence , to believe that Christine Ashdown stared back . |
| 30 | It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’ |