Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’ |
2 | I have my camera with me so that I can take some photographs . ’ |
3 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
4 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
5 | I put the receiver down for a moment so that I could take two hands to the strawboard . |
6 | ‘ By stating that she would take sick time because her holiday request had been denied , she appeared to be abusing the company sick scheme , ’ said Mrs Proffitt . |
7 | Dr Lazenby at Lorton had said that she should take more rest : as if that were possible with a farm , an inn , a husband and a daughter to work and worry about . |
8 | Jason says that you can take any group down the course and give them a thrill you do n't have to be good and special needs groups such as blind people can also have a go … |
9 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
10 | In the Budget , we announced that we would take most family businesses out of Inheritance Tax altogether . |
11 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
12 | In analysing social episodes , ethogenics has suggested that we should take four elements as guidelines . |
13 | In three alter the amounts calculated to read as follows , I hope that we can take that block in three as one since it all follows from what 's gone before . |
14 | These are all things that we can take specific action , some easier and cheaper than others , to do something about . |
15 | Not that we can take any joy from declaring ‘ I told you so ’ . |
16 | To help children to happily acquire useful skills in order that they might take full advantage of nursery provision and formal schooling when that time begins . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | That is no easy task when you consider that they must take ten pints of milk in just one 24-hour period if they are to survive . |
19 | But they assured him that they could take that part of it out , which of course they did . |
20 | They even , praise be , asked skiers at the end of the day whether they had enjoyed the experience , hopefully so that they could take positive action if they had any complaints or worthwhile suggestions . |
21 | It is obvious that they should take particular care to follow preventative guidelines to reduce their risk to a minimum . |
22 | He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity . |
23 | I hope that local education authorities will have learnt some valuable lessons from this year 's experience and that they will take great care to consider what contingency plans are needed to avoid being caught napping again by a late rush of applicants . |
24 | To assist progress , will my hon. Friend and the EC consider telling Mr. Shamir that they will take economic action unless Israel stops its illegal settlement programme in the occupied territories and abides by the Geneva convention , which is being systematically broken ? |
25 | Levitt concludes that the Italian 's success demonstrates his belief that you should not provide consumers with what they say they want , because their behaviour demonstrates that they will take other features if the product is priced and promoted correctly . |
26 | Second , the general results of audit have to be made available to managers so that they can take remedial action if necessary , which may mean initiating an independent audit . |
27 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
28 | The kids are born in the next year with the coming of spring and summer , so that they can take full advantage of the brief period when food is relatively plentiful . |
29 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
30 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |