Example sentences of "[modal v] take [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ That would be a decision Mr Kinnock would take at the time , ’ Mr Mandelson declared loftily . |
| 32 | Others besides the agency girl must have seen them leaving together ; she wondered how long it would take for the news to reach Pete . |
| 33 | ‘ I did n't realise if I agreed they would take off the old mouthpiece and put on a new one . |
| 34 | You 've got a number of things here , you would take off the outer layer and you would bring it close to your body , if you , if you just pick it up with lots of layers around it you 're insulating it are n't you , to keep it cold , so you cuddle it close to your body right , and you remove outer layers of cloths Melanie said something about room temperature , right you raise the room temperature , okay ? |
| 35 | I told them of my plans — a little hesitantly , I admit , as they are practising Christians and I was n't sure how they would take to the idea of a DIY funeral . |
| 36 | There had been threats that Pasok supporters would take to the streets in mass protest in the event of a guilty verdict against their leader . |
| 37 | Scarborough manager Ray McHale said Hewitt 's wrist was in plaster and it would take until the middle of next month for the injury to heal . |
| 38 | Table 13 outlines the actions farmers thought they would take in the event of political or economic change leading to a drop in farm returns . |
| 39 | Preobrazhensky says in his reply to his critics , in the foreword to the second edition of his book , that Bukharin is too general , and not specific enough , since he ‘ merely ’ talks about the law of labour expenditure and not the form it would take in the transition period . |
| 40 | For example , the Oracle might say , ‘ I could see in the stars that the Feast would take in the foolish , I told my master to prepare for a great revenge ’ , and then have the Oracle tell the adventurers the story of the Poison Feast from the Drachenfels novel in full , if the players have n't read that book . |
| 41 | The expanse of wooden floor , cool and clean and shining … the double bed with its hand-appliquéd quilt in a complex pattern of pastels and white … the stand of leafy potted plants , the antique free-standing mirror , whose glass oval would take in the whole length of a woman in evening dress … the modern wardrobe , built-in , that blended so skilfully into the architectural mood of the house while providing all the space for clothing that she could possibly need … two original paintings on the walls , each an impressionistic landscape in subtle , imaginative colour … |
| 42 | As Barro points out , the only quantity rule which does not carry with it the implication that at times buyers and sellers will , at the price set , trade a quantity of the good they consider in advance to be sub-optimal is a rule which sets output equal to the value it would take in the absence of any unanticipated disturbances ; that is , y n . |
| 43 | I accept that , and I admit that there have been occasions when I and other hon. Members have blackmailed various organisations , including British Rail , with the amount of time that we would take in the House unless they did something to improve the position of our constituents . |
| 44 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |
| 45 | " This Meeting being informed that Cart Drivers are very inattentive as to their Conduct upon the road with Carts It is now recommended that all Travellers upon the road shall take to the Left in all situations , and that when a Traveller upon the road shall loose a shew of his horse , the Parochial Blacksmith shall be obliged to give preference to the Traveller . " |
| 46 | This means that ‘ The French system of detailed target planning involves … the toleration of agreements between firms to fix the share each will take of the planned expansion ’ ( Cohen , 1969 , pp. 71–2 ) . |
| 47 | The great fear of China 's leaders is not that western conspirators will weave more plots but that China 's people , enraged by corruption and scornful of slogans , will take to the streets , as they did last June , to demand instant solutions that the government can not possibly provide . |
| 48 | Anyway , I took four samples of the drinking water which I will take to the races this evening . ’ |
| 49 | The chopper will take to the air . |
| 50 | Starting Monday and for six days , our panel of highly-qualified experts will take to the road in a bid to help YOU slim down and shape up . |
| 51 | It will take to the air and leave Britain for Africa where it will winter , before returning the next year to become a brood parasite in its own right . |
| 52 | ‘ Aye , well , well ; but I 'll tell you , there 's one thing I 'm sure of an' that 's the child will take to the yard quicker than the mother will take to the cells an , the life she 'll be forced to live there . |
| 53 | ‘ Aye , well , well ; but I 'll tell you , there 's one thing I 'm sure of an' that 's the child will take to the yard quicker than the mother will take to the cells an , the life she 'll be forced to live there . |
| 54 | HONEYWELL EXPLAINS HOW APPLE 's QUADRA WILL TAKE TO THE SKIES |
| 55 | Among the performers will be Alex 's very own Dave Spruce — whose sixties band Kick Back will take to the stage . |
| 56 | One can only hope that policy-makers ( and knee-jerk media pundits ) will take to the trouble to read beyond the title . |
| 57 | It would take a brave man to predict the eleven who will take to the field at lunchtime on Wednesday . |
| 58 | If the weather holds out , Rupert Bear and friends will take to the skies again tomorrow . |
| 59 | 77 rafts will take to the water at Hay on Wye early tomorrow morning and it will take 3 days to complete the 100 mile journey through Hereford , Ross and Monmouth to Chepstow . |
| 60 | In just over twenty four hours time the international rock star Bruce Springsteen will take to the stage at Britain 's first specially-designed outside rock venue . |