Example sentences of "they could take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If government wanted such powers , it could obtain them only through Parliament ( Parliament itself has never sought to exercise executive powers ) and the granting of them could take place only after deliberation and approval by the triumvirate of monarch , Lords , and Commons . |
| 2 | This posting was a remarkable achievement , considering the number of regular officers trying desperately to get to the front , dreading that the war would be over before they could take part . |
| 3 | Guests at the Award ceremony were invited to arrive in good time so that they could take part in the fund raising . |
| 4 | They should have declared a state of emergency and ensured that Bellwin money was made available to councils so that they could take emergency action . |
| 5 | Nothing was proved beyond doubt , but no one felt they could take chances . |
| 6 | The minority party , realising that they could take advantage of the troubles , persuaded the Duke of Cumberland to issue a warrant against three of the former Councillors for treason and they were committed to Perth prison . |
| 7 | He had told her he might bring Marianne over to meet her and to see the show if they could take time out from all the wedding preparations . |
| 8 | He had two friends there , two male friends , who had a little boat they could take fishing . |
| 9 | The Protestants could hope but by no means be certain of what she would do , though they could take comfort from her dramatic gesture on Christmas Day 1558 , when she ordered the bishop celebrating Mass in her chapel not to elevate the host , walking out when he refused , and her even more spectacular gesture on 25 January 1559 when , at the opening of parliament , she told the abbot and monks of Westminster , processing with tapers burning , ‘ Away with these torches ! |
| 10 | When Millington had a word with people they could take days to recover . |
| 11 | The connection between modern architecture and tyranny awaits its historian , but it is worth reflecting on the mentality of Le Corbusier and his acolytes before being too harsh on the servile Romanian architects who competed for Ceauşescu 's favour so that they could take charge of the vast projects he had in mind . |
| 12 | The George Emersons now had two girls and a boy and were beginning to want a real home — somewhere in the country where they could take root and unobtrusively found a dynasty . |
| 13 | The additional possibility that , having acquired Libyan nationality , they could take partnership with their employers , would have frustrated the intention of at least one employer who had taken on foreign labour to protect his enterprise from socialism . |
| 14 | Some set up agricultural communities where they could take refuge from public contempt for ‘ conchies ’ and convince themselves that their experiments in communal living would , once ‘ the grim period of war is over … be remembered as the forerunner of the new society . ’ |
| 15 | In a moment , they could take stock , and be thankful together . |
| 16 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 17 | The Library Association took legal advice on whether they could take action , but were apparently advised that they did not have the ‘ locus ’ to intervene in this way . |