Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For without an excitation of lust , or the enjoyment of pleasure in the venereal act , no conception can probably take place . |
| 2 | That question was thought to have been partially settled by the House of Lords in United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley BC [ 1978 ] AC 904 where it was held that prima facie time limits are not of the essence , with the result that if a time limit is missed the review can still take place . |
| 3 | Although welding can again take place , the diffusion law ( equation 12.7 ) is now altered . |
| 4 | Mining can only take place where the commodity is available , although transport of and returns on the exploited material will always dictate if resources are mined or not , together with whether people think the resources important or not . |
| 5 | But a crucial difference in the case of cricket is that the consultation process can only take place off the field . |
| 6 | Sir Adrian attributes the moral decline largely to pressure brought about by a faster-pace world , particularly in the City where salary levels have become inflated beyond all recognition and where greed can easily take precedence over ethical practice . |
| 7 | Therefore a certain amount of matching can always take place : contracts to buy can always be matched with contracts to sell . |
| 8 | Council house tenants in the Marske area can now take advantage of a drop-in centre each Friday at the housing information centre in Marske Leisure Centre , where they can put their housing problems . |
| 9 | The conscious observer can then take note if he wishes to do so . |
| 10 | Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world . |
| 11 | I believe that he was misleading the House and the country by those assertions , because the burden of the case of those of us who think that the Bill is completely irrelevant to the problems of our prisons which it purports to tackle is that the penalties already exist in the Public Order Act 1986 , for which the Government can legitimately take credit . |
| 12 | Changing the patterns of our social performance can only take place from within our own selves , and through our own volition . |
| 13 | Russell Thersby , the IOD 's NW branch chairman , representing more than 600 business leaders in the region , said of the vote : ‘ It 's good news , the committee stage can now start and analysis of the treaty can finally take place . |
| 14 | But this can not be the whole story , for David Rhodes and others have discovered that this communication can even take place from tree to tree , where there is no root or other physical contact . |
| 15 | A transfer of a licence can only take place during its currency ( for which see s.30 ) . |
| 16 | That precious photo of the family pet or daft design to mark a work colleague 's birthday can now take centre stage . |
| 17 | ( ii ) Modernization can only take place through struggles . |
| 18 | Thus , if the enzymic component is sequestered in a cellular-subcellular location , access to substrate can only take place via lipid bilayers . |
| 19 | The Peak Park Board can either take enforcement action or establish an effective management system . |
| 20 | Fertilization can then take place and the first cell divisions can occur . |
| 21 | In ( 183 ) and ( 184 ) , similarly , it is clear that the effort to mentally blot something out of existence can only take place while it is still in existence , that is , before the state of non-existence into which one is trying to project it . |