Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you request facilities which may take time to process ( for , transferring modules into and out of LIFESPAN ) , they are automatically set up as background activities . |
| 2 | When you request facilities which may take time to process ( for example , transferring modules into and out of LIFESPAN ) , they are automatically set up as background activities . |
| 3 | The answer depends on how much of the slump is attributable to exceptional circumstances whose impact will fade , how much to the business cycle whose fluctuations will bring happier times , and how much to the erosion of Europe 's competitiveness , which may take years to overcome . |
| 4 | ALL THE INFORMATION IN EATING AND DRINKING IN EDINBURGH IS AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE BUT THE PUBLISHERS CAN NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS OR CHANGES WHICH MAY TAKE PLACE AFTER GOING TO PRESS . |
| 5 | ALL THE INFORMATION IN THE EDINBURGH POCKET GUIDE IS AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE BUT THE PUBLISHERS CAN NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR CHANGES WHICH MAY TAKE PLACE AFTER GOING TO PRESS . |
| 6 | erm there has not been a manifesto for the next General Election , which may take place in a week or two , or in a year or so . |
| 7 | Like copepods , these 3–4mm brownish worms thrive in overfed aquaria , and can only be eradicated by syphoning them out at every opportunity , which may take months . |
| 8 | This is of special relevance when very slow growing organisms , such as mycobacteria ( which may take months to culture ) are being sought . |
| 9 | While these activities are fundamental to ensure that the mechanics of the budgetary process work , it is also necessary to consider the management activities which should take place . |
| 10 | I am setting up — helped by others of different and wider experience and ability — a seminar on ethics in management and communications , which should take place in Edinburgh before the year end . |
| 11 | And it says The Tory government which must which must take responsibility for setting up a rapacious duopoly of generating companies . |
| 12 | One of the least anticipated results of this working out of opinions , morals , and institutions under the guidance of positive philosophy , is the development which must take place in the modes of expressing them . |
| 13 | I think particularly of consultation on change , which must take place under the social charter but which has not been observed . |
| 14 | Changes which are identified here are thought to be suggestive of changes which might take place in other areas of Shetland as the construction phase of the oil era winds down , and the oil production phase takes off in earnest . |
| 15 | Dunning and co-workers ( 1986 ) further point out that there is little proof that soccer violence is caused by the excessive drinking of alcohol : many hooligans seldom drink prior to the match to keep a ‘ clear head ’ for any aggression which might take place . |
| 16 | There is however insufficient preparation and integration into the rest of the course for the cultural learning which might take place . |
| 17 | To what extent does the law deal with events which have taken place , and to what extent does the law deal with events which might take place ? |
| 18 | So we have to move from old structures to new but the first new government of South Africa will be a compromise in itself because it will be a united government but it will inherit not a post-apartheid state as many academics and politicians tell us it will inherit a nil-apartheid state and that is a very big difference we still have to move to the post-apartheid situation which could take decades . |
| 19 | According to the leading proponent of this view , John Herz , the nation state was being undermined by four factors : its susceptibility to economic warfare ; the rise of international communications and the consequent permeability of national frontiers ; the development of air warfare , which could take war directly to a nation 's population ; and nuclear weapons , which threatened the very survival of states and their populations . |
| 20 | The large entrance lock was built in 1884 to give access to a dock which could take vessels up to three thousand |
| 21 | Thus the early engineers were constrained by the lack of ‘ signal to noise ratio ’ and ‘ sensitivity ’ to confine themselves to loud subject matter which could take place about one inch from the mouthpiece . |
| 22 | we 'll have to re-issue another one which could take sort of , you know , this time of year it 's over a week so he said well it definitely has . |
| 23 | Venables continues to pursue Mark Wright , Derby County 's England defender , and is giving serious consideration to the swap proposed by Everton which would take Paul Stewart , Tottenham 's blunt instrument of a centre-forward , to Goodison Park in exchange for Tony Cottee . |
| 24 | As he knows , I have to decide whether his application comes within the Standing Order and , if so , whether a debate should be granted which would take precedence over the business set down for today or tomorrow . |
| 25 | There was thus a concrete possibility of creating a Peoples Front in Britain which would take advantage of the opposition to the National Government to be found outside the labour movement . |
| 26 | After winning the presidential elections in December 1989 , President-elect Aylwin in January 1990 named the Cabinet which would take office in March [ see p. 37183 ] . |
| 27 | During the course of December President-elect Bill Clinton named the members of the Cabinet which would take office after his Jan. 20 inauguration . |
| 28 | The Nationalrat approved in March 1991 the construction of two rail tunnels through the Swiss Alps , which would take freight traffic off Swiss roads , but they would not be completed until 2015 . |
| 29 | The death-bed thus prefigured the decisive struggle for possession of the soul , which would take place on Judgement Day and which had been so vividly depicted in mediaeval murals and missals . |
| 30 | In the answers to the questionnaire circulated by Purser and Saunders , a monk living among the Shans near the Chinese border described the transformation which would take place when the Maitri Buddha comes : ‘ ’ the mountains will be levelled and world become a vast plain full of orchards , gardens and rice fields . |