Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] would take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | His great enthusiasm was for sailing and in the vacations he would take parties of students on seafaring expeditions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They needed to develop market mechanisms which would take account of the cost of environmental effects , and to develop the principle of the ‘ polluter pays ’ . |