Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] take a " in BNC.

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1 The idea of combining two energy sources for cooking may take a bit of rethinking on the cook 's part initially .
2 Very often the period is much longer and securing the requisite number of ratifications may take a decade more , if , indeed , this is achieved at all .
3 This means that Greatswords may take a lot of casualties before their turn comes .
4 The organisational or economic test re-affirmed in that case suggests that the UK courts ought to take a broader approach to the interpretation of the phrase ‘ transfer from one person to another of an undertaking ’ within reg 3(1) of the UK Regulations .
5 Bowing to the logic we have suggested here ( UX Nos 381 , 384 ) , Silicon Graphics Inc will take a 10% stake in Control Data Systems , and NEC Corp may take a 5% stake to seal a deal under which the new company will commit to NEC 's versions of the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC .
6 First , all new entrants to full-time further education who have not had pre-service training and with less than three years ' teaching experience should take a systematic induction training course .
7 Before using LIFESPAN ABLE , the user should take a safe copy of the LIFESPAN database files in the LIFESPAN process account .
8 I think clubs should take a radical look at the whole question of junior supporters and come up with some answers NOW ! .
9 Those of us with responsibility in the energy field must take a more active role in combating apathy .
10 Ms Salvage should take a look at what real country living involves before assuming such an image would be dated !
11 He indicated that Maria should take a bow .
12 She always mentions them in her winner 's speech but maybe the players taking part should take a moment to think what makes it possible for them to perform , and maybe say ‘ thank you ’ for all the years of loyalty from these people , instead of getting away from them as fast as they can .
13 Doctors , patients , and law-enforcing authorities should take a note of this warning and patients should ascertain that the Ayurvedic medicines they are taking do not contain anything other than Ayurvedic medicine .
14 Whether they value their police service enough or not and whether it needs more money or not to do a good job or whether the authorities should take a look at how it is being run .
15 Mr Heitmann says clearly Germany 's special role because of war guilt must end and after unification , the Germans should take a new view of their Nazi past .
16 Section 22 reaffirms the notion that a partnership share is ordinarily to be seen as a proportion of the net distributable assets of the firm available for distribution at the end of the winding-up process and not as comprising a severable share in each of the partnership assets — though , as mentioned in Chapter 10 , the Revenue may take a different line .
17 But what happens in the future may take a different line . ’
18 collection of data may take a long time especially if the survey covers a wide geographical area
19 However , the shadow secretary 's remarks to the Scottish Trade Unions for Labour in Glasgow last Friday may take a little more explaining .
20 The chemical industry must take a more active role instead of just being a supplier or involved in sponsorship or patronage .
21 Bernard thought Ellen should take a proper job .
22 Candidates must take a total of five mandatory core skills modules , although the personal and interpersonal skills module may be chosen from a choice of two .
23 Remember that a unit which takes 25% casualties from shooting must take a panic test , and the bigger your unit the more casualties it will be able to sustain before having to test .
24 Even the heyday of tomb-robbing was over ; his scavenging could n't be called by such a piratical name and the local labourers could not be inspired to sift the soil scrupulously when they could break it with a pickaxe so much faster , and the mounted overseers might take a crack at them with a rifle butt if they dawdled .
25 Casual passers-by might take a look .
26 Mike Read of FFPS said that the RHS was continuing to behave irresponsibly : " The RHS could take a lead in this issue .
27 Marshall said , after he had gone , that he doubted Wainfleet could take a serious view of anything .
28 Most of these solutions would take a long time to implement .
29 And surely , nobody in his right mind would take a few days ' vacation and miss out on the opportunity of selling his own plans and proposals to the President of the Corporation ?
30 But obviously it was an idea that had never occurred to him before , and his mind would take a little while to accommodate it .
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