Example sentences of "may take [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The review of material may take place through a computer terminal , or by means of a proof print . |
| 2 | Spread is slow and extension may take place over a period of months , even years . |
| 3 | One and the same practice may be performed by a nurturant or a hostile mother , may occur within an easygoing or a rigidly authoritarian home , or may take place against a background of love or of hate . |
| 4 | Although the cusp has long been considered a well defined spatial structure maintained by continuous reconnection , it has recently been suggested r4–6 that reconnection instead may take place in a series of discontinuous events ; this is the ‘ pulsating cusp model ’ . |
| 5 | erm there has not been a manifesto for the next General Election , which may take place in a week or two , or in a year or so . |
| 6 | He may take office during a period of crisis when the American people are willing to suspend their paranoia about leadership . |
| 7 | If he grants a sublease for a term longer than the term of his own lease , the grant may take effect as an assignment of that lease ( contrast Milmo v Carreras [ 1946 ] KB 306 and Skelton ( William ) & Son v Harrison & Pinder Ltd [ 1975 ] QB 361 ) . |
| 8 | You may take interest from a foreigner but not from a fellow Jew ’ ( Deut. 23:9–20 ) . |