Example sentences of "could take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggested that they were endothermic , something also pointed out by Robert Bakker , who showed that growth from a ceratopsian egg to a one-ton creature could take just five years . |
| 2 | It may be a further six months to one year before that is true of the Council 's position and , even then , the Secretary of State 's subsequent consideration of any final Review submitted for approval could take even longer . |
| 3 | No one denied litigants the right to prosecute their appeals in person , but deprived of the benefit of the assistance of counsel , it could take longer to hear and determine the application or appeal . |
| 4 | And that could take longer than you think . |
| 5 | And it would take maybe , it could take longer , I mean it |
| 6 | It is true that on other parts of the A fifty nine system , particularly through Knaresborough , er the new road the outer northern bypass could take closer to thirty percent off the existing A fifty nine , but the traffic flows on that part of the A fifty nine are very much lower , so there is much less need , much less environmental need for a bypass there er a relief road I should say , there in the first place . |
| 7 | The intelligent plug could take automatically all those little money saving decisions that Alan Plumpton fears consumers may not bother to take for themselves . |
| 8 | However , the notion that it was a profession in its own right and there was a three-year course you could take rather amused me . |
| 9 | The railway could take both passengers and freight off the roads reducing the need for a bypass . |
| 10 | But what racing could give after one good day , it could take away after a bad one . |
| 11 | A customer who produced a credit card could take away goods without payment on the implied promise to pay within a month , and if they did ( which the vast majority did ) they would not be charged interest for being lent the amount they would otherwise have had to pay across the counter . |
| 12 | He claimed that no Act of Parliament could take away this right . |
| 13 | If I could take away with me the beginning of such an understanding it would be enough . |
| 14 | This means we could take away a lot of your rights and make many decisions about your child without you being involved . |
| 15 | The fresh air was helping , but no amount of cool breeze or pleasant sunshine could take away the migraine that was fast developing . |
| 16 | Third , the polarisation between information workers and the rest could take particularly sharp form in the welfare services which employ large numbers of semiskilled workers as carers and in the ancillary services . |
| 17 | My business could take more than one day , but if you 're not in a hurry … ? ’ |
| 18 | And while neither manager was wholly satisfied with events , Liam Brady could take more from the proceedings , in which his side dominated the second-half . |
| 19 | By considering a simple case where the measured variables could take only two values , he obtained a mathematical expression that must be satisfied by a whole class of local theories . |
| 20 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 21 | In some places , it could take only a small shift to bring socialists back to power . |
| 22 | Did n't think we 'd need two , and mine 's not nearly as good as yours , even if I could take half as good a picture . ’ |
| 23 | Zephyr was a definite yes , a dog I was proud to own , obedient , gentle , one I could take anywhere . |
| 24 | ‘ This could take forever , ’ grumbled Riley and went . |
| 25 | One could take home to mother |
| 26 | The Cymbalines , on the other hand , are the sort of boys you could take home to your parents along with their jangly , tuneful brand of guitar pop as-it-used-to-be-played before the hairies took over . |
| 27 | You could take home just a few to cut open and look for the young larva or larvae , as in some types of gall there is always more than one larva , each in its own separate section . |
| 28 | The primary reason for this move was not a desire for increased tax revenue , welcome as this no doubt was , but , rather , an expression of the Government 's opposition to people enjoying a larger income when out of work than they could take home in a wage packet . |
| 29 | what would you do in this sort of would you make things that you could take home ? |
| 30 | ‘ The sort you could take home to mother ? ’ |