Example sentences of "[noun] could [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If recognition proceeded on a word-by-word basis we would know the beginning and end points of each word , and recognition could indeed take place entirely within the lexicon as these earlier models seem to assume . |
| 2 | Such a scene could only take place in The Wedding Present 's dressing room . |
| 3 | Dunbar could scarcely take exception to that , and changed the subject . |
| 4 | The machine could only take material of a certain size — not a whole figure , for example — and so fragments were collaged together . |
| 5 | Exchange could also take place on the basis of ideological support , commitment or obligation , as has often been the case between public enterprise unions and social democratic governments . |
| 6 | These activities could well take place in other areas , but the impression given in Team D was that this kind of informal or semi-formal engagement with vulnerable sections of the community , recorded only patchily , constituted a prominent part of the social work approach . |
| 7 | Youngsters who had hitherto been isolated on farms and factories could now take part in informed discussion on a wide variety of subjects . |
| 8 | Nor tenderness either , but more a wistful thought of a better world where such things as new beginnings could actually take place , and which he could never realistically expect to see . |
| 9 | The system is a remarkable one and says much for our political culture : land ownership of itself conferred no right to develop ; development could only take place if a developer had obtained planning consent , and if permission was refused there was no payment of compensation . |
| 10 | The professional development of future teachers could then take place in the classroom . |
| 11 | Despite the growth of a local political consciousness nurtured in its coal-mines , the transfer of militancy from work to council chamber could only take place in Clay Cross once the mines had been nationalized and the culturally paternalistic influence of the local coal-owners had been removed . |
| 12 | The not altogether clear provisions regarding audit , finality and certainty mean that adjustments could well take place long after a partner has left a firm . |
| 13 | The police could also take prisoners , and more than 25,000 people were behind bars in Los Angeles , nearly all of them black or Latino . |
| 14 | Of course no such lending could possibly take place if the constables were required elsewhere for the preservation of order ; but ( as Bankes L.J . |
| 15 | It is only through difference , by which the same becomes other and produces a tissue of differences , that history could ever take place : for if full presence were possible , then there would be no difference , and therefore no time , space — or history . |
| 16 | Thieves could also take cattle for their own agricultural purposes . |
| 17 | Rachaela could only take Ruth to the school in the mornings ; at least she saw her to the gates . |