Example sentences of "can take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well obviously if if you the normal rule of thumb , as I 'm led to believe , is that if you buy a used a vehicle from a used car dealer , you 're given three months , three thousand miles , in which you can you can take complaints back . |
| 2 | Many people eat bread , but how many people can take corn from a field and make bread out of it without help ? |
| 3 | An individualist rational choice or Game Theory line can take states as units or take flesh-and-blood individuals as units ; witness the way in which microeconomics often treats firms as individual units needing no further analysis . |
| 4 | Age Concern wishes to see safeguards against abuse , exploitation and neglect of duty for those who can take decisions plus procedures for those who can not do so . |
| 5 | All the people who matter know each other well and so can take decisions fast . |
| 6 | He made a powerful intervention claiming that we must know where we are before we can take decisions , or we shall be paying twice — once in respect of the negotiations and then for the GATT round . |
| 7 | Many times it appears to be used so that other qualities of the work — the wide assortment of materials it might be constructed of , say , or the way it is attached to the wall — can take centre stage , much in the way that a black and white photograph allows you to concentrate on matters otherwise obscured or de-emphasized by colour . |
| 8 | Usually the field trip is still an episodic visit to somewhere else , geographically to another culture from which the analyst can take leave or bring visitors too . |
| 9 | If this happens , it can take generations before trust can once more be established in a family . |
| 10 | And no one can take ball down balls in on Wednesday . |
| 11 | I just feel that I can take credit , or blame , for what I do and have done . |
| 12 | But North himself , on the point of abandoning the operation , begging to be moved on ‘ to other things ’ , made plain the point of everything that had gone before : ‘ Wd very much like to give RR two hostages that he can take credit for . ’ |
| 13 | AS IT searches round , somewhat forlornly , for things it can take credit for , the Clinton administration might light on the changing fortunes of the Democratic governor of New Jersey . |
| 14 | Conventional and gradualist as its recommendations tended to be , the Royal Commission can take credit for laying the foundations of the practice of bringing in a senior officer from another force to investigate complaints against the police . |
| 15 | But we can take heart from the fact that , apart from Germany , Britain enjoys the greatest choice and variety of beers in Europe . |
| 16 | He can take heart from the events of 1966 . |
| 17 | Cambridge can take heart from Goldie 's substantial victory over Isis . |
| 18 | However the Tories , who have gone into coalition only in times of great national danger , can take heart from history . |
| 19 | But the communicators can take heart . |
| 20 | But lovers of novels in everyday ink and print can take heart from the fact that electronic book publishing lends itself best to reference material . |
| 21 | Lovers of novels in everyday ink and print can take heart from the fact that electronic book publishing lends itself best to reference material |
| 22 | ‘ But we can take heart from the Celtic and Leeds results and carry a lot of optimism with us into the first leg in Germany . |
| 23 | Sun worshippers , however , who feel the anti-sun lobby are simply killjoys can take heart because a safe tan does actually exist . |
| 24 | ALTHOUGH they eventually succumbed by five wickets , Scotland can take heart from yesterday 's performance in Stellenbosch against a team which included two Warwickshire players , and one of Kenya 's top pace bowlers . |
| 25 | Their reasons for adopting this view differed somewhat , but we can take Galileo 's position as not atypical . |
| 26 | Tall stacks ( Drax is 259 metres tall ) can take emissions above a layer of air trapped near the ground into smooth air streams . |
| 27 | I know and you can take loads of |
| 28 | She was spared having to find a tactful reply , however , when his employer immediately , and unceremoniously , thrust the dog lead at him and instructed , ‘ You can take Azor , I have to go out — I 'll drive Miss Kingsdale to her hotel . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps now we can take Mill 's insight on board without opening ourselves to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 30 | Djinn are of another dimension but can take possession of all living things . |