Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presentation of the result may use any of the charting methods described in this chapter , or may take the form of a descriptive narrative . |
| 2 | In contrast with One 0ver The Eight in which he constantly said his ‘ gloo — oo-oo-m ’ words or would take a word like ‘ now ’ and repeat it excessively , he behaved with total seriousness in this ; a different character entirely . |
| 3 | You can draw down the full amount arranged for your loan all at once , or can take the money in stages . |
| 4 | Verbs , nouns and adjectives that may take an infinitive with to may be followed by to without an infinitive to refer to a preceding verb or verbal group : Do n't go unless you want to ( Zandvoort 1957 ) . |
| 5 | It is the incentives under which financial users and providers operate that should take the rap and which require attention . |
| 6 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 7 | They rang on Saturday morning to say the repair to the tractor 'll be three thousand and that 's the only one that 'll take the big plough . |
| 8 | For it is a long corner that could take a good three to six months to complete , Kern warns . |
| 9 | He kept himself very much to himself , studying the ancient books he kept in the box beside his bed , doing his exercises , or playing himself at wei chi — long games that could take a day , sometimes even a week to complete . |
| 10 | It 's a very playable game with some teasing puzzles that could take a while to sus out . |
| 11 | While it had received some decent Mk 2 air-conditioned stock , the maximum speed of its fleet of diesel locomotives was 90/95mph ; average city-to-city speeds compared unfavourably with other parts of the InterCity network , and initially BR replied to local pleas that HSTs could not provide the answer , implying stagnation until perhaps the route was electrified and received APTs that could take the curvatures in their stride . |
| 12 | Nevertheless the Cuk converter topology seems likely to remain an outsider until a true trade-off comparison can be made between Cuk and Buck at a series of realistic equivalent performance levels , a task that would take a lot of time , but whose results would be of great interest to many in the power supply design field . |
| 13 | The result is that every ledge , from those that would take a small tent to those that a modern rock climber would blanch to see , is packed with birds . |
| 14 | Then he would move to another par of the bed , away from the cold wet patch that would take a long time to dry and leave a stiff yellow stain on the mattress . |
| 15 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 16 | There are other potential locations within the district that would take a significant amount of development other than a new settlement . |
| 17 | Er it would be a van that would take a a four-bedroomed house with ease . |
| 18 | There is a proposal by TIWAG ( the Tirolean Power Company ) to build a power station that would take the water from the River Inn from the Swiss border to Prutz . |
| 19 | Not necessarily — the expert fishkeeper could design a system that would take the best of all possible filtration methods and effectively combine them into a very good system . |
| 20 | Briefly Bodie explained what was going to happen : that Liz was going to be smuggled into the house from the taxi that would take the family home , and she was there just to be on the safe side , in case the man who had killed their two pets came back late at night . |
| 21 | The Board claimed the crew of the liner , the world 's largest , and a harbour pilot made course changes without realising that would take the vessel over a shoal , marked by the crew as an area to avoid . |
| 22 | These small islands , usually no bigger than would take a house , are connected to the shore by a pavement which is under water when the loch is at normal level , and often the base of the island is reinforced with slabs of stone . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ this is something that will take a long time to develop . |
| 24 | Premiere of a new dance piece that will take a playful look at how long it takes to be serious , silly , thoughtful , beautiful and , above all , in time while dancing . |
| 25 | Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod . |
| 26 | The fine gauge machine has a lace carriage , but as yet no one has developed a chunky machine that will take a lace carriage . |
| 27 | War boars are evil minded creatures that will take every opportunity to maim , bite , and kick their Orc masters but this does n't really bother the Orcs who are on the whole sensible enough to keep out of the way . |
| 28 | Two thousand points is the usual size for battles that will last an entire evening , and three thousand points will give you enough troops for a battle that will take the best part of a day to fight . |
| 29 | Two thousand points is the usual size for a good evening 's battle , and three thousand points will give you enough troops for a battle that will take the best part of a day to fight . |
| 30 | Digital Equipment Corp is contemplating producing a translator that will take the binary code from shrink-wrapped Windows applications and spit out Alpha code . |