Example sentences of "but it [modal v] take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it may take three months , so you are three months possibly on a ventilator . |
| 2 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 3 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 4 | But it might take half a minute to combine this range from this relatively large file . |
| 5 | But it 'll take more than a few bruises to soften him up . |
| 6 | An even greater rise of 5–7 metres is possible if the ice sheet of west Antarctica melted but it would take two or three centuries to do so . |
| 7 | But it would take 10 to 20 years to convert every dwelling . |
| 8 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 9 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |
| 10 | But it can take many months and , as Wendy realised , the longer she waited , the harder it would be to trace Eva . |
| 11 | But it can take 10 years for a material to get on the list while officials develop a standard , which specifies physical and chemical properties of materials . |
| 12 | The Government has recently accepted a recommendation by the British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine for a doubling in the number of trained consultants , currently 216 , but it will take 10 years before they are all in place . |
| 13 | ‘ They expected telecommunications and roads to be modernized within two or three years , but it will take many , many , years . ’ |
| 14 | But it will take international action to rescue the tin price and diversify investment . |
| 15 | Greek shipowners are nimble men , but it will take some brave ( and expensive ) investment decisions if their fleet is to stay sufficiently up-to-date to maintain even its present share of the Greek economy . |
| 16 | The company says it has no intention of replacing the suspect part before operation but it will take remedial action if cracks subsequently develop . |
| 17 | Fullback Jim Staples received a helping hand , but it will take more than the magic sponge to get the Irish side back on its feet . |
| 18 | Ferguson now sports a tuft of facial hair around his lips and chin , permitted him by the Tannadice tablets of stone , but it will take more than a beard to signify maturity . |