Example sentences of "could [adv] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could perhaps take more care with his appearance , but he is handsome . |
| 2 | If I could just take one example to illustrate this . |
| 3 | I , I would I would have thought it could have , could take , it could easily take ten days . |
| 4 | Completion of the Raytheon deal could still take some weeks to finalise . |
| 5 | Completion of the Raytheon deal however could still take some weeks to finalise . |
| 6 | Throughout the 1980s Government legislation progressively reduced the number of situations in which unions or individuals could legally take industrial action . |
| 7 | The case could now take two years to come to court . |
| 8 | The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time . |
| 9 | If I could maybe take twenty shillings . |
| 10 | At a time when members of the legal profession in this country are beginning to appreciate management techniques , the haulage industry could usefully take more account of the impact of the law . |
| 11 | There were two options : he could either take unilateral measures to challenge US hegemony or he could seek alternative partners with a common interest in breaking down hegemonic control . |
| 12 | You could certainly take that view of Freud , and it would have been true , perhaps , if Freud had died er , before , er , nineteen eighteen , shall we say , or in fourteen . |
| 13 | It could never take regulatory action on the basis of a criticism or a complaint alone . |
| 14 | It could never take regulatory action on the basis of a criticism or a complaint alone |
| 15 | She knows , Ruth thought , that I could never take another bite from her . |
| 16 | In fact this small War Cabinet had to consult the full Cabinet at all the big decisions , like sending the task force , the landing at San Carlos , before they could actually take any decisions to move in , and … this was a restoration of almost nineteenth-century Cabinet government . |