Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] would take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Bowles , ( 1705–1780 ) an Irishman who became superintendent of mines in Spain , was dismayed by the lack of unusual plants in the area and wrote to Peter Collinson from Bilbao in 1733 asking for packets of seeds and bulbous plants and continued : ‘ There is a Miller 's Dictionary in Town , so I would take some pains to give the Spaniards a taste … you know what best to send ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | In the Budget , we announced that we would take most family businesses out of Inheritance Tax altogether . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The survey was mainly restricted to the exterior of the Lancaster and estimated that it would take 2,000 man hours to bring R5868 up to exhibition standards externally . |
| 7 | He told us that it would take many weeks to sort out and would involve a variety of procedures , such as a medical , reports from the school and visits . |
| 8 | The Libyan government announced that it would take reciprocal action against any countries expelling Libyan diplomats . |
| 9 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 10 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 11 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 12 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 13 | This stance may have been the result of the influence of senior officers of the regular army , assisted by a warning from Black 's solicitor that he would take legal proceedings should any new statement or comment on behalf of the army be libellous . |
| 14 | Based upon his evaluation of the Senior Management Team conduct of assemblies , the Head of Department said that he would take any criticism of teaching skills very much to heart if it came from the DHS . |
| 15 | And I would take good care to see that it was the end of your career . ’ |
| 16 | Financial management advice and services has continued to be provided by Napier University Ventures Limited and I would take this opportunity to thank Ed Angus and all his staff for the hard work and support they give to the Enterprise Centre . |
| 17 | Drive it at 90 mph — and you would take 36 minutes . |
| 18 | And you would take this book and you 'd put a hard piece of it was a kind of a a cardboard that would n't absorb water I 've forgotten what the thing was made of . |
| 19 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 20 | And he would take one ear and then the other ear and pull it through the slots on the bonnet . |
| 21 | Well that 's interesting , because six women do the job in eight hours , and it would take eight women to do it in six hours . |
| 22 | Further impractical solutions include forbidding obese people to reproduce : the effect of this would be surprisingly small , and it would take several generations of extremely unpopular enforced birth control to even halve the rate of obesity in the population . |
| 23 | The shed running foreman had asked Sam if he would take young John as there was no one available at the time . |
| 24 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 25 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |
| 26 | They do n't and to be dramatic they 'd be very , very silly to do so because I would take any step to avoid that happening . |
| 27 | TAXATION is unlikely to be increased , though that has been suggested , as it would take much-needed spending power out of the economy and be unacceptable to the newly-powerful Tory Backbenchers . |
| 28 | Anyone who bought Harvard 's own shares got effectively locked in , as it would take three months to sell out , on the matched bargain basis a fact not usually explained to the client at the time of sale . |