Example sentences of "would [verb] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , in August 1987 , SAVE wrote a firm and formal letter to the Secretary of State stating that , if the Department refused to list the building , SAVE would consider taking legal action .
2 A spokesman for Fife Health Board said it would have to take legal advice before any question of an appeal was considered .
3 Assessment in Catholic Religious Education would have to take great care against falling into the trap of only aiming to develop that which readily lends itself to measurement .
4 Because Brutus was such an idealistic character he felt that he would have to take important steps towards saving Rome from the evil grasp of Caesar .
5 ‘ . Of course , had the wind been very gusty before , they would already have stopped flying , or they would have taken extra precautions to make sure that there were enough people to prevent an incident .
6 They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) .
7 Superintendent Clive Fothergill said : ‘ We would have taken appropriate measures to ensure he could have come and gone like any other team manager . ’
8 But to go to and to go to I would have thought would have taken similar lengths of time .
9 Talbot would have taken long odds that he was cold sober .
10 At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him .
11 Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate .
12 However , the position taken by the Court of Appeal loses much of its force if it can not be assumed that the House would have taken non-certified points of appeal had they been raised .
13 Suffolk , who eventually beat Hertfordshire 18–15 to take runners-up spot , would have taken top honours had Clark not pulled off such an immaculate saver .
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