Example sentences of "may [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may secretly take pride in our traditions and truth , but we are deficient as long as others are left outside in the cold and unable to share with us the sacrament of the Lord . |
| 2 | In contrast , Article 16 provides that a diplomatic officer or consular agent may only take evidence , without compulsion , of nationals of the State in which he exercises his functions , or of third States , if a competent authority in the requested State has given its permission , either generally or in the particular case , and subject to any conditions imposed . |
| 3 | In smaller businesses , job reviews may only take place when the time comes to decide on salary increases and there might be little consultation with the majority of members of staff . |
| 4 | The grounds for arrest It is one thing to identify the crimes for which an arrest is now possible ; it is another to say when such arrests may lawfully take place . |
| 5 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 6 | He dissociated the Church totally with any boundary walking that may still take place . |
| 7 | The tour will be a round trip starting from Kidderminster with a break at Bridgnorth for refreshments and participants may also take part in a tour of the loco sheds . |
| 8 | They may also take advantage of the tax-sparing provisions in some Malaysian treaties to reduce the cost of investment in Malaysia . |
| 9 | Other than these disclosures , the DTI may also take action towards disqualification or prosecute on other Companies Act offences . |
| 10 | Drug testing opponents may also take comfort from the surprising dissent by arch-conservative Justice Antonin Scalia . |
| 11 | It may off it may also take time for farmers to acquire the skills necessary in order to increase , or to use , to adopt this technology . |
| 12 | Commonly he will be looking for evidence of thrush or trichomonal infection , but may also take samples for the other organisms that are found in the vagina from time to time . |
| 13 | Self assessment may also take place in a group context . |
| 14 | Mechanical compaction and brittle failure may also take place after cementation , both as a result of shrinkage , expansion , and subsequent fracturing beneath a soil zone ( Fig. 5.16e ) , and , commonly , as a result of secondary porosity creation during burial diagenesis in both carbonate and siliciclastic host sediments ( Fig. 5.18d , e ) . |
| 15 | Corrosion may also take place during the precipitation of what , superficially , appears to be a single cement phase ; in carbonates this can be detailed using cathodoluminescence petrography ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 16 | But I think it tends to save any type of … any misunderstandings that may later take place as a result of it being a one-on-one deal . |
| 17 | Plants , according to Axelrod and Hamilton , may even take revenge , again obviously unconsciously . |
| 18 | But victory will see them as serious threats to England 's hopes of making it to the finals in 1994 and Gullit may well take Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti 's offer to join Gazza . |
| 19 | It may well take time for the church planting team to see fruit of this kind . |
| 20 | It may then take decades for a long-lived species like trout to die out completely . |
| 21 | His pride of heart and condition may again take place and a man who could in so little a space first love me , then hate , then banish me his house and now send for me again in such affectionate terms may still waver , may still deceive thee . |
| 22 | What little money has been recovered remains the subject of a legal tussle in the courts which may yet take months to resolve . |
| 23 | Jamie 's father is helping to organise a protest group , which may yet take Thames Water to court for damages over the cryptosporidia contamination . |
| 24 | The obvious model is Austria , though getting there may yet take time . |
| 25 | These , for the most part , are theories about international relations ( hence the small letters ) , although we may occasionally take note of theories about the conduct of the discipline itself ( i.e. theories of International Relations ) . |