Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't try and change things , at least until you understand them , and that may take a lifetime , at least ! |
| 2 | And that may take a week or two weeks in the school or college to get that done . |
| 3 | So there is open war among men , in which each must take a part , and side either with dogmatism or scepticism . |
| 4 | ‘ That must take a bit of the burden off you , ’ said Mrs Harper , lining up a peppercorn by the clove . |
| 5 | This may take a number of different forms : |
| 6 | This 'll take a while to brown anyway . |
| 7 | This 'll take an hour to cook . ’ |
| 8 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 9 | This might take a year or so for planks an inch or two thick and seven years for large oak ship 's timbers . |
| 10 | This could take a while . |
| 11 | This could take an hour at the first interview and need several interviews after that . |
| 12 | If the books really were priceless , Mungo thought , this would take a century . |
| 13 | Their current goal is to win an entry into Crufts , but maybe this will take a couple of years . |
| 14 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 15 | First he has an Idea , say a sweet Melachrino-type string sound ; he then decides this will take an orchestra of say 24 players ( sidemen ) and then chooses a suitable conductor and arranger . |
| 16 | This can take a multiplicity of forms including signals , gestures , speech , letters , telex , telephone , morse code , fax , television and radio . |
| 17 | This can take a lot of ti me as it must proceed at the person 's own pace and not fit within the time span that the helper finds convenient or thinks sufficient . |
| 18 | That 'll take a bit of getting used to that ! . |
| 19 | " That 'll take a bashing on a hard shore and never a crack in fifty years . |
| 20 | Ca n't your business be done by post-Cheta will take a letter to the village . ’ |
| 21 | As I say , if they said , you know I mean I , I do n't know whether that much will take a lot |
| 22 | These may take a bit of finding — although an electronic stud detector will help — but once the batten has been secured , the kitchen cupboard ( or whatever ) can be secured to it with normal woodscrews . |
| 23 | Inspection of ( 47 ) , repeated here for convenience as ( 65 ) ( 65 ) would lead us a priori to expect , first , that the language might provide a simple way to question the noun phrase and adjective taken as a unit , and second that , if there are simple interrogations for the noun phrase alone and for the adjective alone , these would take a form parallel to that for the subject and ( ordinary ) predicative adjective of a normal copular clause . |
| 24 | To get to the standard proof of 1.5.1 will take a while . |
| 25 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 26 | All could take a leaf out of the book of Grant Fox , who performances for New Zealand were the result of constant practice at all the basics . |
| 27 | ‘ Under socialism , all will take a turn in management , and will soon become accustomed to the idea of no managers at all ’ ( p. 98 ) . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly they are now using Gore-Tex instead of Sympatex in their KSB range and have added the KSB 5 , a beefed up version of the Goret-Tex KSB 3 that will take a walking crampon . |
| 29 | I will of course let my client know that Mr Makaroupides takes full responsibility for this and that will take a weight off his mind . |