Example sentences of "could [adv] take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ministry that enjoyed royal confidence could generally take the House of Lords for grated , and provided it did not prove incompetent or seek to impose excessive taxation , " its position was unassailable in the Commons . " |
| 2 | Now we could just take the pattern of responses out of there as being some classes . |
| 3 | ‘ My younger sister is the only person who could possibly take the girls if we died , and I 'm not sure that she would really want them . |
| 4 | But we could still take the minibus and just take three or four . |
| 5 | Well you can always charge them , could always take the cash for that . |
| 6 | To say that no man could ever take the place of Tony is to say that I 've never got over his death . ’ |
| 7 | The King could reasonably take the view that he was doing no more than exercising the right to encourage , one of Bagehot 's famous trinity of rights , and that he was encouraging his Prime Minister in achieving his aims , rather than pressing MacDonald to adopt a course which was unwelcome to him . |
| 8 | In conducting this exercise the Commissioner has explained that he has adopted the wide test of subversion formulated by Lord Harris in 1975 and that his duty ‘ is to look at each case individually and say whether the Home Secretary could reasonably take the view that the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security ’ ( Lloyd , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | A resident 's assessment could also take the form of an attempt to quantify the pecuniary benefit of owner-occupation . |
| 10 | The tribunal or court could well take the view that the business needs to reorganize or terminate practices or indeed to cut costs . |
| 11 | Now what that actually means is that the money er will go to your daughter if anything happened to you but if you re er was still alive come maturity time you could then take the proceeds yourself to then give her . |
| 12 | For example , in a narrow town or terrace house where the front door opens directly into a corridor-like space , you could either take the wall down altogether , or make an arch going into the living room , or take the wall down to seating level , literally making a seating ledge . |
| 13 | These could either take the form of specific questions on the material contained in the case studies or they may be used to provide the base for students to be set exercises involving library research . |
| 14 | You can hear it in the jazz metal fills in ‘ Glam Slam ’ and ‘ U Got the Look ’ , in the way the West Coast power pop of ‘ I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man ’ subsides brilliantly into a brooding meander of acid guitar , in the raga anthem ‘ The Cross , … |
| 15 | a lot of them were too complicated for me to explain to you but I mean I appreciated the the miracle of it all , like they could actually take the thing to pieces |