Example sentences of "this [modal v] be taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be taken , says Johansson , as the cost to society of adopting an energy policy which minimises CO 2 , versus one that minimises costs . |
| 2 | In an age when all Unionists professed some form of religious belief and when Anglicanism was the assumption of those who professed no other form of Christianity in England , some of this may be taken to be assumption rather than conviction . |
| 3 | This may be taken to imply that the electronic band , within whose absorption profile the excitation occurred , involves a transition between states having different Ru-O bond lengths , and probably involves excitation of electrons having some Ru -O bonding character . |
| 4 | This may be taken either at the time of your child 's birth or during the weeks following , for example , when the mother and baby leave hospital . |
| 5 | An example of this may be taken from a context in which it is rather familiar : atmospheric motions on the scale that governs the principal features of the weather . |
| 6 | This should be taken as a message both to the Western allies and the Soviet Union that West Germany 's first concern is the gradual , well-disciplined reform of East German society , not the country 's destruction and its absorption into West Germany . |
| 7 | This should be taken as referring to the office of head teacher , so that where a person is acting in place of the head teacher ( usually this will be the deputy head teacher ) , s/he will be able to exercise this power . |
| 8 | Terms like ‘ stimulus categorization ’ have to be used , because we do n't have any other language in which to describe what parts of the brain do , but a term like this should be taken as a shorthand for ‘ neural processes that could mediate stimulus categorization , whatever they may be ’ , rather than a conclusive statement about what an area does . |
| 9 | Egg production is generally better in smaller units and this should be taken into account when considering flocks of 500 upwards in one house . |
| 10 | If the salvage is worthwhile then this should be taken up and disposed of to the highest bidder . |
| 11 | This should be taken into account in the development of potential anti-tumour and anti-ulcer treatments . |
| 12 | Whether this should be taken into account or not in calculating the value of total output depends on whether we require a measurement of the domestic output of the United Kingdom or a measurement of the output produced by all the factors of production owned by United Kingdom residents . |
| 13 | Most patterns need to go the same way on all pieces joined , so this must be taken into account when ordering . |
| 14 | This must be taken as evidence that parents find value in such manuals , but whether they seek specific advice on child-rearing practice , or use the book as a source of more general reassurance , is unclear . |
| 15 | As the two bifilar windings of each phase are situated on the same stator poles within the motor , there is close mutual coupling between the windings and this must be taken into account when considering circuit conditions at turn-on and turn-If . |
| 16 | The provision of a free enquiry service to the public does much to enhance the RBG 's image , but the costs of this must be taken into account in our future planning , and the organization of the enquiry service ( incl. spreading the workload ) adjusted accordingly . |
| 17 | Where the tort is followed by a disabling illness , this must be taken into account in assessing the tortfeasor 's liability . |
| 18 | This might be taken to imply that each Board should be financially self-supporting . |
| 19 | For Bateson the operative principle of democracy is " a balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities , In fact , this might be taken as a most apposite description of his own attempt at building a new consensus for English . |
| 20 | This might be taken as an informative summary . |
| 21 | This might be taken to imply that the surgery had prevented one side of the brain from attempting to assume control of the mechanisms for speech output . |
| 22 | They , they think now that they 've got a feeling that this might be taken out , all these testing schemes and stuff because I said to them , While their argument is that while she 's doing these SAT schemes , and she 's following this , she 's all worked up , |
| 23 | I suppose this might be taken as perhaps a basic statement of Impressionist doctrine , and we know , incidentally , that the fictional painter in À la recherche , Elstir , who plays a very important role in the novel , perhaps more important than either the fictional writer , Bergotte , or the fictional musician , Vinteuil , that Elstir was modelled in considerable part on Monet . |
| 24 | This could be taken as a minor concession to advertising , except that the explicit statement at the beginning of the book seems related to an exclusion from the first volume of almost all the poems embodying Leapor 's sharpest social criticism . |
| 25 | This could be taken to show significant back-donation from O to Mo , which would reduce the effective charge on Mo . |
| 26 | Commenting on this , Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 ) write : The switch to Creole occurs before the first instance of " build " is " and this could be taken as a direct quotation of the man 's words , rendered in Creole because he is apparently a Jamaican : cf. |
| 27 | This could be taken as showing limitations on her ability to converge completely — cf. |
| 28 | If goods have not been delivered within 30 days following expiry of an agreed time limit or if there is not an agreed time limit within 60 says from the time the carrier took over the goods , this shall be taken as evidence of the loss of the goods . |
| 29 | Blake was told by his MI6 interrogators that if he cooperated this would be taken into account when sentence was passed . |
| 30 | There was discussion on Michael Taylor 's proposal for Tim Moulds to become Acting Head of Campaigns for one year , and it was noted that a decision on this would be taken at SMT on Friday 11 December . |