Example sentences of "might take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done . |
| 2 | The remuneration for a lecture at the National Gallery that might take two weeks to prepare stands at £50 and in many cases you pay for your own slides . |
| 3 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 4 | A careers session might take one lesson , say an hour . |
| 5 | This might take 5 years . |
| 6 | One afternoon at the beginning of July , when the pub was closed for a few hours , she suggested they might take little Lil out for an airing . |
| 7 | First , rather in the style of Simpson 's ‘ The Common Law and Legal Theory ’ ( chapter 2 above ) , one might take criminal law as a test of some version of legal theory , thereby confirming or refuting the theory in question . |
| 8 | The country 's rulers were , after all , running scared : the American colonies had declared their independence in 1776 in dangerously democratic terms ; the writings of Tom Paine were being disseminated far and wide ; and , most threatening of all , there was every chance that the Jacobin ideas of the French Revolution of 1789 might take firm root in English soil . |
| 9 | Because it is calculated that a retained crew might take four minutes to get to the station the computer calculated other stations could respond quicker . |
| 10 | Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute , who also favours increasing the exemption , accepts that it might take many years to reverse the effects of its shrinkage . |
| 11 | When you have finished — it might take five minutes or five hours — look through your notes and pick out the central themes . |
| 12 | It might take five moves , or 10 , or 15 , to get to the goal , but when that happens , it is not because the player looked ahead that number of moves . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In Cannock Forest the warden might take ten oaks from those blown down in the hays of Alrewas , Hopwas and Gailey , and in ‘ the wood called Hockley ’ . |
| 15 | I do n't know how much to take , I might take ten pounds worth or something , I do n't need that much why , I need some money for Saturday as well do n't I ? , should n't need that much though |
| 16 | I listened with great fascination to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington ( Mr. Dicks ) , thinking that he might take this opportunity to tell the House about his relationship with Professor Bedi , who is now awaiting trial in Brixton prison . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought it might take some while for the outside world to learn of . |
| 18 | ‘ I have a nasty feeling that getting anywhere might take some time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Although that might take some time , of course . ’ |
| 20 | The historian of the future might be able to reconstitute all the documents mentioning a particular subject in an automated PRO but the manner in which they inter-relate might take some time to unravel . |
| 21 | Yeah , oh , well April is Easter , April nineteen , twenty , twenty one , twenty two , and it looks like your father he said he might take some time in n it ? |
| 22 | Loving in truth , and fain in verse my love to show , That she ( dear she ) might take some pleasure of my pain ; Pleasure might cause her read , reading might make her know ; Knowledge might pity win , and pity grace obtain ; I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe , Studying investions fine , her wits to entertain ; Oft turning others ' leaves , to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain . |
| 23 | If you say , ‘ I keep thinking you might take some LSD and have a bad trip and get scrambled-egg brains and never be the same again and I really love you the way you are , ’ that 's fine because you 've confined yourself to what you know and what you feel . |
| 24 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 25 | Eventually they could become brittle with age , but this might take some years . |
| 26 | This simple enquiry , which a user may feel' ought to have an immediate response , might take some seconds to process . |
| 27 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 28 | More complicated enquiries might take several days . ’ |
| 29 | Even now the magnetism that drew her to him was so strong that if he knocked at her door and said he 'd changed his mind , in spite of everything , it might take more amor proprio than she could muster to refuse him . |
| 30 | In 1800 there were no access roads , no mountain rescue , no way of keeping dry or changing wet clothes until returning home which might take three days . |