Example sentences of "they [modal v] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The producers of all these programmes are inundated with cassette tapes from bands , so they may take some time before listening to them all . |
| 2 | When their children go to school , they may take on a morning job in a shop or making school dinners . |
| 3 | Eventually they may take over a small group when the large parent troop undergoes fission as increasing size produces social instability . |
| 4 | But as one commentator has remarked , ‘ the trouble is some of these directives look as if they may take until the 21st century to be adopted let alone implemented ’ . |
| 5 | Litigants may not argue on its basis before a local judge , but they may take their cases to the European Commission after they have exhausted all locally available remedies . |
| 6 | Nicknames assumed ( and still assume ) many forms — they can be logical or illogical — some describing physical peculiarities , others mental or moral qualities ; they may take the form of animal names , being thus descriptive of appearance or disposition . |
| 7 | All of these hunt by day , and at certain times of the year they may take large numbers of small mammal prey . |
| 8 | Elementals often appear as a moving light or a change in temperature , or they may take the form of an animal or bird and make it behave oddly for a period of time . |
| 9 | They may take a week or so to work , but can kill most deep-rooted perennial weeds without being persistent . |
| 10 | They march in columns so long they may take several hours to pass one spot . |
| 11 | So Aaron and his sons must be cleansed , robed and their sins expiated by sacrifice before they may take office . |
| 12 | Their word-recognition skills are so finely developed that they may take insufficient notice of orthography while reading , and so develop poor memories of how words are constructed when it comes to spelling them . |
| 13 | Politics can be quite reasonably defined as the business of government and power in any society , whatever form they may take . |
| 14 | They may take the form of disrupted relationships or the more obvious one of problematic or bizarre sexual behaviour . |
| 15 | Or they may take advantage of visits to dischargers for other purposes to fill a sample bucket at the same time . |
| 16 | It is now necessary to look a little more closely at the exact nature of these securities and to indicate the various forms they may take . |
| 17 | Our main concern is with linear polymers and the ordered or semi-ordered structures which they may take up in solution , in the melt or in the solid state . |
| 18 | But then they may take it and do nothing . ’ |
| 19 | When those same pensioners understand that blanket commitments of that type will erode the extra money available to help the poorer end , they may take rather a different view . |
| 20 | To clear up any doubt , therefore , Notaries Public in Scotland are advised that while they may take and duly sign a solemn declaration of good repute , etc , they can not issue as such a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy . |
| 21 | They may take Abernethy , or leave it for their foot . |
| 22 | Students taking the degree without honours have a choice of the subjects which they may take at a higher level . |
| 23 | They may take themselves rather too seriously and are full of ‘ in ’ jokes and references , but then they are not intended for general consumption . |
| 24 | They may take a toasted sandwich to eat outside . |
| 25 | A great many opportunities to accumulate wealth or power are available to these institutions and individuals and they may take an unfair advantage of the situation . |
| 26 | Now , driven by cost issues , they may take a more active stance , based on business considerations , and propose rehabilitation or care packages in order to reduce their potential exposure . |
| 27 | If it appears that the child is ordinarily resident elsewhere , his " home " authority must be consulted and they may take over the investigation ( s47(12) ) . |
| 28 | So you 're talking a month yeah , but you see , they may take a hundred in one go and then leave it a month or so . |
| 29 | He says they may take action against the company that made the barrier , or if they ca n't be traced , the Department of Transport . |
| 30 | But the main opposition party say they may take legal action because they suspect fraud . |