Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canon have already announced an n by 508dpi engine where the horizontal scan frequency can be set by the OEM and which , even more significantly , can handle pages up to 24″ by 36″ or will take roll-fed paper up to 13′ . |
| 2 | The remuneration for a lecture at the National Gallery that might take two weeks to prepare stands at £50 and in many cases you pay for your own slides . |
| 3 | Mr de Benedetti has protested his innocence and is to appeal , a process that could take two years to complete . |
| 4 | Why are there no plans in this country to ensure that we have a fully compatible freight arrangement that could take re-frigerated herrings from Aberdeen to Milan on refrigerated rail trucks instead of having traffic trundling along our motorways and on channel ferries ? |
| 5 | He wanted a presidency that could take unpopular measures that might be necessary if Sri Lanka were to match Singapore 's success . |
| 6 | ‘ But we could be dealing with something that could take several generations to come out . ’ |
| 7 | And so I was the one that used to take this lunch to father . |
| 8 | And it has the capacity to clean 1,100 square metres an hour , a task that would take 10 humans . |
| 9 | On the Cairngorm plateau the pressure of walkers ' feet on rare mosses and lichen continues to damage a sub-arctic habitat that would take 100 years to repair — if it had the chance . |
| 10 | Dobbs ( 1979 ) cites a proposed service in Anglesey that would take 70 minutes by post-bus compared with 27 minutes by conventional bus . |
| 11 | Certainly not one that would take seven months to finish . ’ |
| 12 | Nevertheless a carefully designed receptionist role that would take these misgivings into account , may be worth discussing . |
| 13 | Restoring the hydrogeological balance includes the reopening of sections of the Lagoon enclosed for fish farming ( ‘ valli di pesca ’ ) , if possible in a controlled way that would take some account of the commercial interests involved . |
| 14 | One office was burned out completely , and with it some fairly important papers that would take several months , research to restore . |
| 15 | That he has books , videos etc to do — lots of things that would take 30 years to do . |
| 16 | The Brazilian cocoa research organisation , CEPLAC , has organised a series of expeditions in the Amazon region of Brazil , a vast area that will take many years to cover completely . |
| 17 | It is now being replaced by a highly complicated tax that will take two years to value and will be a burden to those on low incomes in high-cost areas . |
| 18 | I wish to renew with springs that will take reasonable loads yet be more comfortable to ride . |
| 19 | All told , ‘ Au Fou ’ is a super-heavyweight debut that will take some beating . |
| 20 | Now in some folk that will take special emphasis . |
| 21 | It 's a journey that will take ten days and involve eighteen stop-overs . |
| 22 | Biotechnology executives see the plan as a substantial improvement on the present system , in which the government analyses every proposed planting in a process that can take four months . |
| 23 | The best solution is a bulk eraser that can take both sizes of floppy disk . |
| 24 | As most models have only one wound it will not be necessary to roll this extra dice , but it is important when it comes to rolling for models that can take several wounds . |
| 25 | Such players , whose strength knows no moderation , require pianos that can take any excesses . |
| 26 | Some of the newcomers — weekend cottagers , holiday-home dwellers — are highly transitory and may take little interest in village social activities . |
| 27 | Smokers have lower levels of vitamin C and should take extra care with their diet — or better still , give up smoking . |
| 28 | Reviving the moribund nuclear industry would be tough and unpopular , and could take many years to produce more power . |
| 29 | The headquarters ' engineers want to develop an electric version of the HST , which will involve considerable redesign and could take several years to complete . |
| 30 | The declared aim of re-establishing Kuwaiti sovereignty , it was suggested , would be accomplished by an economic blockade of Iraq , and could take some months to achieve . |