Example sentences of "[modal v] have take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have taken great pride in having so very much pleased the world with his choice . |
| 2 | He 's a sadistic man — he must have taken great pleasure in working over Joe last night . " |
| 3 | It must have taken supernatural greed |
| 4 | Although the Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that it means that the person has drunk ‘ intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects steady self-control , ’ it is arguable that the person must have taken intoxicating liquor to excess so that he has lost the power of self control . |
| 5 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 6 | Ace suddenly realized he might have taken other damage . |
| 7 | But I might have taken other examples . |
| 8 | If your dog persists in misbehaving when the doorbell is rung , then you may have to take alternative action . |
| 9 | These trips are expensive and women may have to take young children hundreds of miles . |
| 10 | But some of the alleged failures may turn out to be actual failures , and the Institute may have to take disciplinary action against the firms in question . |
| 11 | Users in this group were not known to be taking any drug other than cannabis ( though , like any drug user , they may have taken other drugs without official knowledge of this ) . |
| 12 | Some may have taken part-time jobs so that they could cope with the increasing demands at home , some may never have worked at all outside the home . |
| 13 | Other businesses may obtain their terms from a trade association or similar organisation , in which case the association may have taken legal advice in the preparation of the terms . |
| 14 | These solutions implied considerable redevelopment in the central , older parts , but it remained unclear as to just what form of renewal was to be adopted either in land use or visual terms , Town planning as an art form may have taken considerable strides in suburban or garden city situations . |
| 15 | A spokesman for Fife Health Board said it would have to take legal advice before any question of an appeal was considered . |
| 16 | Assessment in Catholic Religious Education would have to take great care against falling into the trap of only aiming to develop that which readily lends itself to measurement . |
| 17 | Because Brutus was such an idealistic character he felt that he would have to take important steps towards saving Rome from the evil grasp of Caesar . |
| 18 | ‘ . Of course , had the wind been very gusty before , they would already have stopped flying , or they would have taken extra precautions to make sure that there were enough people to prevent an incident . |
| 19 | They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) . |
| 20 | Superintendent Clive Fothergill said : ‘ We would have taken appropriate measures to ensure he could have come and gone like any other team manager . ’ |
| 21 | But to go to and to go to I would have thought would have taken similar lengths of time . |
| 22 | Talbot would have taken long odds that he was cold sober . |
| 23 | At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him . |
| 24 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 25 | However , the position taken by the Court of Appeal loses much of its force if it can not be assumed that the House would have taken non-certified points of appeal had they been raised . |
| 26 | Suffolk , who eventually beat Hertfordshire 18–15 to take runners-up spot , would have taken top honours had Clark not pulled off such an immaculate saver . |
| 27 | I shall be a failure , I shall have to take Holy Orders , but you see , I 'm in such an agony of doubt , I ca n't decide . ’ |
| 28 | Each goal is planned for a week but some may possibly require longer ; our dieter will have to take extra time if it is taking her body longer to adjust than she anticipates at the start . |
| 29 | In this case either there will be downward pressure on interest rates , or the authorities will have to take other measures to reduce this liquidity . |
| 30 | I suppose we will have to take appropriate action will we not … . |