Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of combining two energy sources for cooking may take a bit of rethinking on the cook 's part initially . |
| 2 | Very often the period is much longer and securing the requisite number of ratifications may take a decade more , if , indeed , this is achieved at all . |
| 3 | This means that Greatswords may take a lot of casualties before their turn comes . |
| 4 | Ms Salvage should take a look at what real country living involves before assuming such an image would be dated ! |
| 5 | He indicated that Maria should take a bow . |
| 6 | She always mentions them in her winner 's speech but maybe the players taking part should take a moment to think what makes it possible for them to perform , and maybe say ‘ thank you ’ for all the years of loyalty from these people , instead of getting away from them as fast as they can . |
| 7 | Whether they value their police service enough or not and whether it needs more money or not to do a good job or whether the authorities should take a look at how it is being run . |
| 8 | Doctors , patients , and law-enforcing authorities should take a note of this warning and patients should ascertain that the Ayurvedic medicines they are taking do not contain anything other than Ayurvedic medicine . |
| 9 | Candidates must take a total of five mandatory core skills modules , although the personal and interpersonal skills module may be chosen from a choice of two . |
| 10 | Remember that a unit which takes 25% casualties from shooting must take a panic test , and the bigger your unit the more casualties it will be able to sustain before having to test . |
| 11 | Even the heyday of tomb-robbing was over ; his scavenging could n't be called by such a piratical name and the local labourers could not be inspired to sift the soil scrupulously when they could break it with a pickaxe so much faster , and the mounted overseers might take a crack at them with a rifle butt if they dawdled . |
| 12 | Casual passers-by might take a look . |
| 13 | Mike Read of FFPS said that the RHS was continuing to behave irresponsibly : " The RHS could take a lead in this issue . |
| 14 | The whole FI family would stay at the Sheraton in Buenos Aires and the Hilton in Sao Paulo while , between races , a majority of the drivers would take a week 's break at Guaruja on the Brazilian coast near Santos , an hour or so away from the smog-filled city of Sao Paulo . |
| 15 | Alternatively , Harrison Drape 's corded Superstyle Twintrack will take a valance and curtain , from £25.99 for 120 cm length . |
| 16 | When it comes to optional modules , candidates will take a total of nine module credits from one of four optional groups covering agriculture , horticulture , forestry , and the environment and conservation . |
| 17 | The research will take a case study approach looking at : aeronautics , nuclear propulsion , missilery , avionics , information technologies , telecommunications , and aircraft propulsion ; areas which build upon the researchers previous work . |
| 18 | The animals will take a lot of care . |
| 19 | He put on a brave face to Sunday Express readers : ‘ I hope it will be believed that the Arsenal can take a licking as well as any other club . |
| 20 | hold on , hold on , just a moment , she does n't know , but a biopsy can take a week , a week to come through , she would n't expect you out before the weekend |
| 21 | Since the final stretch through Oxfordshire opened nearly three years ago motoring organisations and the police have been campaigning for service areas to be built so that drivers can take a break . |
| 22 | This partnership can take a variety of forms , depending on particular circumstances and individual preferences . |
| 23 | In other words , three generations might take a family from hard toil through private education to gilt-edged respectability . |
| 24 | Each cabin 'll take a family of four . ’ |
| 25 | Course work may take a variety of forms including practical and investigational work ; tasks should be appropriate to candidates ' individual levels of ability . |
| 26 | A series of judges may take a month or two to opine . |
| 27 | Whereas a cold may take a day or two to develop and produce a cough , sore throat and streaming nose , flu arrives much more suddenly , and also causes a high temperature and sore and aching joints and muscles . |
| 28 | Medical help may take a number of different forms . |
| 29 | Going around the Sections posts could take a fortnight , for many of them were beyond the ‘ 60-mile line ’ . |
| 30 | That battle could take a year or more , bills mounting all the while . |