Example sentences of "[modal v] have taken [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
| 2 | It must have taken a long time . |
| 3 | So it must have taken a long while ? |
| 4 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 5 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 6 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 7 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 8 | But then you would know about that — your business , that must have taken a fair amount of hard work . ’ |
| 9 | The demands of beating the Belgian champions with only ten men must have taken a physical toll of Smith 's side . |
| 10 | Aeons ago , the waters must have taken a different path and the men who discovered the cave had chipped away the stalagmites to make a passage into the gallery beyond , the gallery where Melissa and Fernand now stood . |
| 11 | It must have taken a full five seconds for him to crumple Des , but he needs another three to get moving , and by then I 'm at his side . |
| 12 | But they must have taken an awful lot of barrels away . |
| 13 | The effort of talking after those months in silence and darkness must have taken the little strength she had . |
| 14 | But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn . |
| 15 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |
| 16 | He did n't look the kind of guy who could have taken a long prison sentence . |
| 17 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |
| 18 | This could have taken the burning core through the concrete base of the reactor into the ground , a version of what is colloquially described as the ‘ China syndrome ’ . |
| 19 | Option ( b ) could have taken the following forms : ( i ) an attack on the forces/territory of those seeking to obstruct free navigation ; ( ii ) escort activity to defend merchant shipping seeking to exercise the right to free navigation ; and ( iii ) clearing wreckage or mines endangering free passage through Gulf waterways like the Strait of Hormuz . |
| 20 | Fact , for two pins I 'd have taken the joint out of the oven and put me 'ead in instead . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you 'd have taken the regular boat to Sanderstown and spent a night or two there . ’ |
| 22 | Otherwise we 'd have taken the British Government to the court of human rights . |
| 23 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 24 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |
| 25 | It would have been impossible for the Falklands War to be prosecuted successfully with every decision coming to the full Cabinet of twenty-three members , a state of affairs that would have taken every other item off the agenda . |
| 26 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 27 | As it is , Mr Major could think long and reappoint Mr Lamont , who has borne the enormous strain of knowing that , if the Tories had lost , he would have taken a substantial part of the blame . |
| 28 | Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the staff felt that the project would have taken a different form and provoked different responses from teachers if an outsider had been present at meetings . |
| 30 | McGregor wrote that ‘ since no important decision ever pleases everyone in the organisation , he must also absorb the displeasures , and sometimes severe hostility , of those who would have taken a different course ’ . |