Example sentences of "could take [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should those measures be insufficient , the member state might have recourse to other criteria which prove appropriate , because , in that respect , the aims of the Common Fisheries Policy could take precedence over the rules on free movement laid down in the E.E.C . |
| 2 | Sensors on the craft bound for Mars would detect light from a flare and the crew could take shelter in a shielded room before the slower protons arrive . |
| 3 | Freeing herself from his arms , she picked up the coffee pot and whisked out of the kitchen before he could take hold of her again . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you arrange all those lovely things in my bathroom ? ’ she asked at once , before an attack of shyness could take hold of her . |
| 5 | Likewise , every enthusiast for Britain 's future ascendancy in the world through the Commonwealth could take heart from the fact that a notable nationalist had been charmed into submission by a representative of the Crown . |
| 6 | The better-off farmers could send their sons as fee-payers to endowed grammar schools ( in Thame or in Oxford itself ) ; the gentry could take advantage of the railways and dispatch their sons to boarding-schools further afield . |
| 7 | This would tie in with the kind of creature that could take advantage of the first abundance of flowering plants and special insects emerging in the late Cretaceous . |
| 8 | Specialist treatment bases might continue to exist where intensive work could be done on particular problems , but their aim would be to ensure that children could take advantage of mainstream services . |
| 9 | of it as well , because obviously we could take advantage of the cheaper prices now to do it . |
| 10 | Apple 's Macintosh , on the other hand , was designed to be a closed system with a rigidly defined hardware and software core that all developers could take advantage of . |
| 11 | Charles reckoned he could take advantage of her lethargic state to push a bit further . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A 1787 directory of Sheffield , for example , shows that local people could take advantage of forty-two different services leading directly or through connections in distant towns to most parts of England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 14 | Obviously a person who first acquired consumer goods as a businessman , and then chose to put them into consumer use for his own private uses could take advantage of this section . |
| 15 | However , although in theory any seller could take advantage of these sections generally , it would not be commercially practicable in most cases for ordinary sellers to do so , and again , provision to this effect is included in Precedent 1 . |
| 16 | By and large , those principles were soundly based although one could take issue with the question of ‘ full overhead costs ’ . |
| 17 | The o only thing that we felt w we could take issue on was on the project resource sheet , erm technical work supervision . |
| 18 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 19 | Philip 's great-something-grandfather , Alexander I , had been accepted as a Greek by the Greeks ( so that he could take part in the Olympics ) . |
| 20 | Last week it agreed in principle that Switzerland could take part in projects where its participation would strengthen the research effort . |
| 21 | However , cautious and pragmatic as ever , I realised that before I could take part in the airier abstractions of my chosen profession I needed to confront the nitty-gritty , the hard business of actually selling things , specific products , to industrial customers . |
| 22 | Guests at the Award ceremony were invited to arrive in good time so that they could take part in the fund raising . |
| 23 | BRITISH planes could take part in an emergency mercy mission to parachute food and supplies to besieged Bosians in the east of the war-torn country . |
| 24 | Chiang out of her cell , so that she could take part in the liberation . |
| 25 | You could take part in a research project here |
| 26 | It was one of those rare moments when the clamour of war receded , the smoke cleared and a wise man could take stock of the situation quickly , accurately , and with some hope of certainty . |
| 27 | In between carousing down the powdery slopes , Branson and his colleagues could take stock of an empire that had grown almost beyond recognition in the last six years . |
| 28 | IF IT worries you that the national survey on sexual habits is not going to take place , you could take comfort from the thought that it probably wo n't make a vast amount of difference in the long run . |
| 29 | The Protestants could hope but by no means be certain of what she would do , though they could take comfort from her dramatic gesture on Christmas Day 1558 , when she ordered the bishop celebrating Mass in her chapel not to elevate the host , walking out when he refused , and her even more spectacular gesture on 25 January 1559 when , at the opening of parliament , she told the abbot and monks of Westminster , processing with tapers burning , ‘ Away with these torches ! |
| 30 | He said that at the party conference , those who feared they had a weak leader , could take comfort from the belief that there was a strong man waiting in the wings to take over . |