Example sentences of "[modal v] take [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the rulers of this planet of Stalinvast , luxuriating high up in their hives , must take a very partial view . |
| 2 | The chemical industry must take a more active role instead of just being a supplier or involved in sponsorship or patronage . |
| 3 | Those of us with responsibility in the energy field must take a more active role in combating apathy . |
| 4 | At that point , she realised that she must take a more positive attitude . |
| 5 | They do an excellent job , members should take a little more interest and go and see what they do . |
| 6 | That we should take a more dispassionate view and consider the long-term effects of Briant 's work . |
| 7 | We should take a more substantial point , though as one grapples one 's way through the forest they are not always easy to identify . |
| 8 | Combining paracetamol with methionine , as Bray suggests , may not be the answer , but surely the manufacturers of paracetamol should take a more responsible attitude by at least placing a more specific warning of the effects of overdose on the packaging . |
| 9 | I think the court should take a far tougher attitude towards those people who break the rule . |
| 10 | He should take a very good look at it and , even more important , handle it . |
| 11 | It has occasionally been suggested — notably by Lord Alexander , when he became chairman of NatWest in 1990 — that the Bank might take a more relaxed view , to help industry . |
| 12 | He argued that if a jury had the benefit of ‘ this further evidence ’ it ‘ might take a very different view ’ of Mrs Sutcliffe 's attitude to deals with the Press . |
| 13 | Now , while you 're off checking the Yellow Pages for Hypnotherapists , we 'll take a very short break , but be back in one and half minutes because still to come … |
| 14 | He could take no more nail-biting suspense ; he must act : |
| 15 | As in the counties , the effective manager of a political interest in a burgh would distribute favours in an effort to create feelings of obligation , and if management in the towns could take a much cruder form than would be commonly acceptable among the freeholders , that similarity should not be lost sight of , for as Mrs. Mary Campbell suggested , if such small favours were given , ‘ in greatetud they should serve those who get favours done them ’ . |
| 16 | As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine . |
| 17 | Grey Egerton , describing in 1852 a fossil fish which he had lithographed for the Geological Survey , could take a more cheerful view , calling it a ‘ pretty little specimen ’ . |
| 18 | Let's take a brutally honest look at our current position . |
| 19 | The XJ-Two Twenty , which costs almost half a million pounds was being test driven by a motoring journalist , when he accidentally changed down to first gear instead of third while travelling at NINETY miles an hour.It 'll need about twenty thousand pounds to mend the broken car … the driver 's wounded pride may take a little more work . |
| 20 | This may mean that a file which operates well under normal conditions , i.e. many home records being accessed but few synonyms , may take a relatively long time to process sequentially . |
| 21 | Now , driven by cost issues , they may take a more active stance , based on business considerations , and propose rehabilitation or care packages in order to reduce their potential exposure . |
| 22 | Or it may take a more structured approach drawn from cognitive therapy techniques . |
| 23 | But it would take a pretty exceptional executioner to come up with a vegetable on the spur of the moment . |
| 24 | I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question , but if I were forced to hazard a guess , I would say that it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart . |
| 25 | Given the steep decrease with wavelength of the extreme ultraviolet/X-ray absorption cross-section , subl ; , it would take a much higher column density N H to attenuate this flare-like component significantly . |
| 26 | It would take a very long time to implement and would be very costly . |
| 27 | The problem was not evading capture — it would take a very alert human even to see a nome running at full speed , let alone catch one — but simply avoiding being trodden on by accident . |
| 28 | Again , it would take a very stubborn inductivist to put his hand in a fire many times before concluding that fire burns . |
| 29 | The information is , indeed , available but it would take a very canny investor to calculate all the possible effects on his return . |
| 30 | That would have enabled us to announce in our manifesto that when we were returned to office at the election we would take the most sensible course of action . |