Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of combining two energy sources for cooking may take a bit of rethinking on the cook 's part initially . |
| 2 | We have seen how structuralism showed increasing signs of unease concerning the nature of discourse about literature , and we noted the solution proposed by Barthes , namely that discourse about literature should take the form of the discourse of literature . |
| 3 | Regular reviews of progress will take place and students are asked to carefully monitor their own performance . |
| 4 | How do we develop systems that are sensitive to the needs of users as well as the expressed needs of practitioners ? and , How do we maintain the practitioners ' interest when the need for change is identified but managing a planned process of change will take time ? |
| 5 | Bird of Freedom would take him . |
| 6 | I thought of the far nurseries of the stars and how many days ' sail through the thin seas of hydrogen would take us beyond the space lamps and the burial grounds of the stars . |
| 7 | The added danger is that turning east instead of west will take a lost party deep into the wild region and away from help , with no prominent features on the hill to help make them realise their error . |
| 8 | The report recommends that the Ministry of Agriculture should take an active role in preventing unnecessary loss of farmland to development , and explore ways of finding more non-agricultural uses of rural land , as well as encouraging a reduction in the intensity of agricultural production . |
| 9 | A distinction is made between sales negotiations , where a certain amount of bargaining may take place , and pure selling , where the salesman is given no freedom to bargain . |
| 10 | It is therefore often wise to pitch such descents , which of course can take an eternity . |
| 11 | For mothers faced with the task of reconciling an inadequate income with the health needs of their children , small additional sources of income can take on a significance disproportionate to their size . |
| 12 | His unexpected changes of direction would take people by surprise . |
| 13 | He claimed that no Act of Parliament could take away this right . |
| 14 | The Good Friday Walk of Witness will take place again this year in Wakefield , starting at 9:30 a.m. at Westgate End Methodist Church , Lawefield Lane , silently following the Cross to a United Service at the Cathedral . |
| 15 | As the depth is obviously restricted this form of extraction would take place over a wider area than normal but in a district like this where the overburden is thin this is no real hardship . |
| 16 | If the McKinsey-GE matrix is to be similarly interpreted as a guide to the movement of the group 's interests through time , one must assume that a substantial amount of investment must take place in the bottom left-hand corner of the grid in order to build future ‘ stars ’ . |
| 17 | As we mention in the section on Concentration , a good time-table of study can take the place of motivation until such motivation develops of its own accord . |
| 18 | The existence of such a rule of recognition may take any of a huge variety of forms , simple or complex . |
| 19 | According to the Theory of Relativity , time passes more slowly for objects moving very swiftly ; thus a spacecraft moving at close to the speed of light would take more than 100,000 years to cross our Galaxy , as observed by the rest of us , but only a few years so far as its crew were concerned . |
| 20 | The next meeting of CINOA will take place at the end of June in Venice . |
| 21 | It is only when the United States persuades Israel that it can not continue to deny the choice of representative that the Palestinian people have made — however reprehensible that representative may seem — that any meaningful international dialogue towards peace can take place . |
| 22 | This is not a suggestion we agree with , but it is a popular one , especially in North America where a number of closely related discussions have emerged recently about the content of feminist philosophy , or the form a feminist critique of philosophy should take ( Flax , 1983 ; Hartsock , 1983 ; Jaggar , 1983 ; and see also Ruth , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | It should be appreciated , however , that exactly the same kind of analysis as we shall develop here could be made equally revealingly of practical , everyday communism , Christianity , the apartheid philosophy of white South Africa , l the delusions of the mentally ill , or , as Ernest Gellner so tellingly shows , contemporary linguistic philosophy.2 So while our quest to understand the mysteries of witchcraft may take us deep into the inaccessible jungles of distant continents , we shall regularly encounter disconcertingly familiar images showing how dose to home we really are . |
| 24 | There are no clues in the text to suggest what kind of exchange might take place . |
| 25 | ‘ Did you arrange all those lovely things in my bathroom ? ’ she asked at once , before an attack of shyness could take hold of her . |
| 26 | It 's a long and drawn out affair — one minute of cartoon can take weeks to build . |
| 27 | The prevailing ethos today is that the state not the individual is responsible for his welfare , that the erosion of private property rights and the control by the state of many areas of our lives is legitimate and welcome and that the distribution of wealth must take precedence over its creation . |
| 28 | If there 's any subsidence later on , this make of liner will take up the strain better than Butyl , claims the makers . |
| 29 | But even this programme of divestment will take four years : it is being done on a stock by stock basis . |
| 30 | Such consumption of lithosphere can take the form of either subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate capped by continental crust or the subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a second oceanic plate . |