Example sentences of "[modal v] take [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his statement smuggled to the Independent in London , Brucan said : ‘ I must take issue with a misconception prevailing in the West that this regime owes its survival to the repressive organs of the State . |
| 2 | The provision of the services already described is important , but this must take place in a society that fully accepts the implications of disability , otherwise the disabled feel they are rejected and discriminated against . |
| 3 | A disadvantage , from the policeman 's perspective , is that the offence must take place in a public as opposed to a private place . |
| 4 | If the child is to be a resident patient the treatment must take place in a health service hospital ( which includes a hospital managed by a health service trust ) . |
| 5 | The action must take place against a backdrop of some description , even if it it is a blank black curtain . |
| 6 | Injections into , say , the muscle of the hindleg are more painful , but if you hold the dog as directed , offering plenty of reassurance , then no long-term behavioural problem should take hold as a result and the experience should be rapidly forgotten . |
| 7 | Ideally , further education activities should take place at a time when the qualified staff can most easily be spared . |
| 8 | This should take place at a time when the individual is able to engage in detailed discussion . |
| 9 | No discussion should take place during a lesson without first obtaining the permission of the teacher concerned . |
| 10 | Negotiations should take place on a basis of equality with Japan to decide how American bases in Japan would operate : the outcome should be reflected in a discrete United States-Japan agreement to apply simultaneously with the implementation of the treaty . |
| 11 | Consumption monitoring should take place after a settling-in period has elapsed to take account of staff learning curves and untypical use during product familiarisation . |
| 12 | In the early days slalomists paddled a World Championships in slalom and then the same paddlers , using the same boats , took part in a WWR to make it more of an event , just as a K1 sprint paddler might take part in a 500m race and also take part in a 10km event at the same regatta . |
| 13 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 14 | To give an extreme example , fiscal policies designed to increase employment might take effect after a year , when , say , the economy had begun to move out of the recession . |
| 15 | He 'll take candy from a baby , if there 's fifty cents in it for him . |
| 16 | You could take part in a research project here |
| 17 | However , Mr Christopher could take comfort from a statement by the Syrian foreign minister , Farouq al-Shara , at a joint news conference , in which he refused to link the return of all the deportees to a resumption of peace talks . |
| 18 | Such effects could take place at a number of different levels within the political system : an individual 's relationship to another could change as a result of the media just as an individual 's relationship to an institution could change as an outcome of media work , and so on . |
| 19 | The review of material may take place through a computer terminal , or by means of a proof print . |
| 20 | Spread is slow and extension may take place over a period of months , even years . |
| 21 | One and the same practice may be performed by a nurturant or a hostile mother , may occur within an easygoing or a rigidly authoritarian home , or may take place against a background of love or of hate . |
| 22 | Although the cusp has long been considered a well defined spatial structure maintained by continuous reconnection , it has recently been suggested r4–6 that reconnection instead may take place in a series of discontinuous events ; this is the ‘ pulsating cusp model ’ . |
| 23 | erm there has not been a manifesto for the next General Election , which may take place in a week or two , or in a year or so . |
| 24 | He may take office during a period of crisis when the American people are willing to suspend their paranoia about leadership . |
| 25 | You may take interest from a foreigner but not from a fellow Jew ’ ( Deut. 23:9–20 ) . |
| 26 | The pipeline would take water from a gorge between the Victoria Falls and Lake Kariba on the northern border with Zambia and follow the route of a railway line south to Bulawayo , the country 's second city . |
| 27 | I would take part in a group which was run in a businesslike way , and which had realistic aims . |
| 28 | The ITGWU also intended doing its bit , announcing that 17 of its Cork branches would take part in a march from the National Monument to County Hall in support of Raybestos on the day the County Council was meeting there to decide on planning permission . |
| 29 | Occasionally O would take hold of a handful of Boy 's black hair , which was still long all over then . |
| 30 | In an address to the country on Nov. 10 , President José Eduardo Dos Santos announced that a general election would take place on a date provisionally set for the second half of September 1992 and that consultations would continue with political parties and organizations on a firm date . |