Example sentences of "[that] they [modal v] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London , the Foreign Office yesterday refused to confirm reports that the deportations would start as early as next Saturday and would only repeat the formula that they would take place sooner rather than later . |
| 2 | If our propaganda has failed , it has failed because we have been unable to arouse the British people in such a way as to make them feel that the cause of Republican Spain was their cause in such a measure that they would take every risk , even the risk of war to make the Republican cause in Spain prevail . |
| 3 | It was arranged that they would take the horses down to the railway sidings where there was enough light from the warehouses to school in the evenings , and Biddy would come twice during the week and once at the weekend , for two hours each time . |
| 4 | Many reasons occur why it is improbable that they would take such a step which both students and professor would have cause to regret … ’ |
| 5 | Both Canada and Argentina admit that it would only be by default that they would take on the task of staging the tournament . |
| 6 | I rather got the impression that they would take him er , er , continue interest in what would happen , I 've got the impression they have a representative here to give their view of how it was er |
| 7 | The parliaments of Armenian , Georgia , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania and Moldavia had announced in the weeks immediately preceding the referendum that they would take no part in organizing the holding of the referendum . |
| 8 | In a statement released on Jan. 6 , leading members of the Medellín drug cartel , known as Los Extraditables , declared that they would take reprisals against the rival Cali cartel , claiming that one of the Cali leaders , Gilberto Orijuela , had hired Luis Meneses — more commonly known as Ariel Otero , the former leader of some of the most powerful right-wing paramilitary organizations in the country — to kill them . |
| 9 | These included the abolition of absolute covenants by translating them into fully qualified covenants ; the elimination of qualified covenants such that they would take effect as a fully qualified covenant ; and the placing of the burden of proof for proving " reasonableness " where consent has been withheld , together with a restriction upon landlords seeking to delay their decisions regarding consent . |
| 10 | The initial allocation of system design responsibility was negotiated between the four aircraft companies , Deutsch Aerospace , British Aerospace , Carsa and Allenia and against the background of an M O U which said we must share the technology on this project between the four nations and in a particular way which ensures that each of the nations has got access to all the high technology aspects of the project er therefore the individual companies identified those areas of the project , were they felt they either could lead best or wish to lead and for the United Kingdom British Aerospace erm identified the avionics system integration as the major complex task that they would take responsibility for . |
| 11 | As had happened the day before , the time simply flew for Fabia , so that she could again hardly believe it when Ven told her that they would take the funicular a little way down the hill to a restaurant where they would have lunch . |
| 12 | But they agreed at a meeting on Saturday that they would take whatever steps were necessary to protect their colliery . |
| 13 | ‘ The streets are n't icy ? ’ he asked , and , reassured that they were not — not in the city centre , anyway — he suggested that they might take a short stroll , just a short one , if that suited Erika . |
| 14 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan also acknowledged that headhunters will try quite naturally to seduce good people away from such companies as his own ; but , he maintained , headhunters overall did a good job for him and he was not frightened that they might take his staff . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I mean they will they will protect your furniture it 's just that they 'll take all the battering then from the sun . |
| 17 | But the locals are still optimistic that they 'll take the honours on Monday . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Rosenblooms had long known that they could take her with them anywhere in society . |
| 21 | The connection between modern architecture and tyranny awaits its historian , but it is worth reflecting on the mentality of Le Corbusier and his acolytes before being too harsh on the servile Romanian architects who competed for Ceauşescu 's favour so that they could take charge of the vast projects he had in mind . |
| 22 | The Bohemians thought of the halls as catering essentially for the masses but they were delighted that they could take their place beside them as part of what Vachel Lindsay was to call ‘ a jocular army ’ . |
| 23 | By November 1948 , it was agreed that they could take over the responsibility for progressing work on the manufacture of plant and on-site construction from the Ministries of Supply and Works , and the following year they did so . |
| 24 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 25 | The electricity people called to ask my permission to put poles in my land so that they could take it even higher , and I agreed to it . |
| 26 | I do n't know which firm they were from , but as well as stopping people from hurting each other , they helped the more diminutive among the crowd on to the stage if they had problems getting free of the moshpit so that they could take a dive . |
| 27 | They should have declared a state of emergency and ensured that Bellwin money was made available to councils so that they could take emergency action . |
| 28 | The minority party , realising that they could take advantage of the troubles , persuaded the Duke of Cumberland to issue a warrant against three of the former Councillors for treason and they were committed to Perth prison . |
| 29 | Guests at the Award ceremony were invited to arrive in good time so that they could take part in the fund raising . |
| 30 | I do n't know which firm they were from , but as well as stopping people from hurting each other , they helped the more diminutive among the crowd on to the stage if they had problems getting free of the moshpit so that they could take a dive . |