Example sentences of "may take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , rewards and penalties may take non-pecuniary form , but rewards have to be present . |
| 2 | Some of the newcomers — weekend cottagers , holiday-home dwellers — are highly transitory and may take little interest in village social activities . |
| 3 | It may take innumerable forms , such as scratching the panel of a coach , removing a tyre from a car , or the car itself from a garage , or , in the case of animals , beating or killing them . |
| 4 | The process may take 5 minutes , it may take as long as 15 . |
| 5 | It may take five minutes of real time to play the match . |
| 6 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 7 | In such circumstances LCH may take certain steps that appear to be best calculated to discharge the member 's rights and liabilities under registered contracts and , upon such discharge , to certify two net sums : one the amount of the member 's net resulting liability or entitlement in respect of client account contracts ; and the other the amount of his net resulting liability or entitlement in respect of other registered contracts . |
| 8 | The legislation merely states that ‘ if it appears to a local planning authority that it is expedient in the interests of amenity ’ , it may take certain action , in relation , for example , to unsightly neglected waste land or to the preservation of trees . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unemployed workers may take alternative jobs elsewhere , but will not permanently leave the sector . |
| 11 | As an example we may take gaseous SiCl 2 H 2 whose IR spectrum ( Fig. 5.29 ) contains bands with three distinct types of envelope , as expected for a molecule with C 2 ν symmetry . |
| 12 | There is no specific treatment for this disease and complete recovery from any form of hepatitis may take four months or longer . |
| 13 | What the textbook can summarise in a page of results — life is cellular , cells have water and carbon , cells divide to multiply — our methods with the child 's own work , with his own hands , with his own microscope and his own laboured arithmetic may take six weeks of classroom effort . |
| 14 | Some businesses may take legal advice , either from in-house legal advisers , or from their solicitors in private practice , and obtain a set of terms more or less tailored to their individual requirements . |
| 15 | Any living individual , if made the identifiable subject of a defamatory attack , may take legal action . |
| 16 | Virgin chief Richard Branson , who may take legal action in pursuit of a settlement of the original ‘ dirty tricks ’ row , said he was sad to hear of the new allegations . |
| 17 | But the main opposition party say they may take legal action because they suspect fraud . |
| 18 | Since the London Fox is anxious to preserve the integrity of the market , it may take other measures , such as extending delivery times , to relieve pressure on shorts . |
| 19 | For instance , family centres may take many forms , from a primary developmental role to an institutional or even a residual one , providing supplementary care , teaching parents better parenting , monitoring children 's progress and providing increased professional surveillance of vulnerable and disadvantaged families . |
| 20 | Growth by acquisition may take many forms : the purchase of a publicly held company 's shares by a recommended offer or by contested takeover bid , or the acquisition of shares or business assets by private agreement ( in either case for cash or by way of share exchange ) ; merger through the medium of a holding company which acquires the merging companies or their assets ; and , in France and certain other member states , merger by ‘ fusion ’ whereby a company loses its identity and is absorbed , with its assets and liabilities , into the new concern . |
| 21 | Abuse of possession which the defendant already has may take many forms , such as sale accompanied by delivery of the plaintiff 's goods or their documents of title to another , pawning them , or otherwise disposing of them . |
| 22 | The planning gains or conditions may take many forms , including : ( a ) Dedication of part of the site as open space or parkland . |
| 23 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
| 24 | Yet the story says simply what it may take many pages to explain in words . |
| 25 | In consequence , young offenders may take many cars and never face the prospect of a deterrent sentence . ’ |
| 26 | A deficiency in vitamin B12 may take many years to show , but it can prove fatal . |
| 27 | But as we have seen , the law in some cases allows anyone with a genuine interest to make an application for judicial review , and it may take such persons a considerable time to find out about the decision they want to challenge . |
| 28 | The court can not refuse to award the cost of private necessary nursing or domestic help , even though State help may be available , when assessing special damage ( see the Law Reform ( Personal Injuries ) Act 1948 , s2 ( Appendix B ) ) , but may take available State facilities into account when assessing future loss , following Cunningham v Harrison [ 1973 ] QB 942 . |
| 29 | To rectify such mistakes may take extensive exposure to different usage from other speakers around them , before children find out that they have a real case of no difference in meaning ( Clark , 1987,1988 ) . |
| 30 | Heat is seldom essential , and cuttings can be struck in a cold frame or outdoors under cloches , but may take all winter to root . |