Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] would take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it set up a pattern of eating which would take Odette years to break . |
| 2 | Mention has been made as to the nonexistence of an allocation for housing and as to the suitability of this forum for consideration of the effect which would take place of development with or without the existing allocation . |
| 3 | On Feb. 4 Seoul Home Radio Service reported the North Korean permanent representative at the UN as stating that North Korea would allow nuclear inspection immediately after ratification of the IAEA accord which would take place within six months . |
| 4 | I wanted her , at my convenience , to become a nurturing Mother Earth figure who would take care of my when I felt unable to cope , and the little girl who had never grown up was crying out for help and approval . |
| 5 | But there was a post on the lonely road and sometimes if I was tired from hunting I would take stance on it for a few moments , to rest . |
| 6 | Town and country planning were important symbols of the more farsighted and strategic uses of planning , of necessity areas which would take years to come to full fruition . |
| 7 | There was to be an additional consultation with the two judges which would take place after the prisoner had served three years of his sentence , so that the Secretary of State could receive at that stage their advice on the total period which should be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 8 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 9 | Gerry Crawley , a NALGO finance spokesman , said the council was prepared to sit out the strike , but that stance was creating a nightmare scenario for the tax which would take years to clear up . |
| 10 | Each company would employ a small number of clerical workers who would take care of all the dealings an enterprise had with the world outside . |
| 11 | Examples from the survey included a teacher who would take underwear catalogues into the class and say things like , ‘ You 'd look nice in this one , Sarah ’ or ‘ This would suit a big girl like you , Emma ’ ; a gym master who would have a quick feel while helping girls over the vaulting horse , and several who were said to ‘ rub up ’ against girls and generally leer and lech . |
| 12 | WHEN bought Burston windmill he could never have envisaged all the changes which would take place — but he always chuckled when he looked at the map — geographically he had bought the high ground . |
| 13 | We have not attempted a similar exercise for this Report : we felt that such samples needed very careful selection which would take time we could not afford , and that , unless samples were numerous and lengthy , they would inevitably illustrate only a few aspects . |
| 14 | The development of CD-ROM techniques has been of particular significance for students of texts : classics students can search the complete database of ancient literature by using the IBYCUS implementation of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae ; students of English can use the CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary to conduct searches which would take lifetimes if conducted on the twenty volumes of hard copy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | During the course of December President-elect Bill Clinton named the members of the Cabinet which would take office after his Jan. 20 inauguration . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We were endeavouring to develop the policy that would become the programme of a Labour Government who would take power in about 1990-91 and remain in office until about 1995-96 , by which time we would have the beginnings of the Trident programme . |
| 20 | His solution was that the Chivalry of the Sea demanded that the union itself would take responsibility . |
| 21 | When she had tired of her games she would take wing and fly away , and even if she stayed , how likely would it be that she could ever settle down as that poor doctor 's wife ? |
| 22 | His great enthusiasm was for sailing and in the vacations he would take parties of students on seafaring expeditions . |
| 23 | For long solitary hours he would take stance on some sea cliff watching the sharp-winged flutter of terns as they hung above the sea to fish , or the magnificent splashes of great gannets , or the rugged gliding of herring gulls . |
| 24 | Appalled , she hardly dared look at him , afraid of the contempt she would have to face , because of course he would take Florian 's insouciant words as confirmation of everything he believed of her . |
| 25 | The only thing I would take issue with is the insertion of a cadenza towards the end of the Toccata in C , BWV564 . |
| 26 | This last view prevailed as the Commission rejected an intermediate third party status which would take account of this distinction , preferring to see all third parties in an identical legal position . |
| 27 | Well do I recall the ecstasy , and the shame , when on about two occasions each year during the summer he would take Jerry , Anna and me out for the day to one of the many beautiful villages around Glasgow . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman appears to argue that it would be better to use a method based on population , irrespective of need or possibly even a sensitive formula-driven system which would take account of different needs of different regions . |
| 30 | When he returned to London it would take months of arguing with some scrupulous clerk of the Exchequer to get it reimbursed . |