Example sentences of "can take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can take new users by surprise — they become intoxicated before they realise it . |
| 2 | We have seen that while practitioners in the financial services field can take certain measures towards reducing their exposure to allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and avoiding conflicts between fiduciary law and regulatory law , there is some doubt as to the efficacy of these techniques and uncertainty as to what is required to ensure that they are reliable . |
| 3 | YOU can do something about the situation , YOU can take personal responsibility for conserving the worlds finite resources , by not consuming meat and animal products . |
| 4 | Once a laser has put molecules into a repulsive , electronically excited state , it can take 100–1,000 femoseconds for the species to dissociate into independent fragments . |
| 5 | and erm you know , and I said Carla needs it for work anyway so Dave said I 'm gon na while I 'm on holiday I 'm gon na do all the stupid jobs , so I can take that computer in |
| 6 | In three alter the amounts calculated to read as follows , I hope that we can take that block in three as one since it all follows from what 's gone before . |
| 7 | ‘ The stage was rigged the week before the gig but any outdoor festival can take that length of time ! |
| 8 | You can take that tin that you got in er you can take that tin as a pencil case that you got pardon ? |
| 9 | You can take that rubbish off that chair and wipe it , will you ? ’ |
| 10 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 11 | They protect themselves from too much probing and they appear very secretive in nature but can take ice-cold decisions without a second glance if it suits their purpose . |
| 12 | Such flexibility can take many forms including reductions of manpower , changes in job descriptions , and retraining and redeployment within the firm . |
| 13 | The Swindon Works only closed in 1986 and since it can take many years for asbestos to affect people 's health , she expects to be dealing with similar cases well into the next century . |
| 14 | We can take two people from each yacht , and course members join us afloat from 10am to 5pm each day for 4 days during the first week of a Villa-Flotilla holiday . |
| 15 | To a point at least , you can take each moment of inner soul searching as a sign that you are winning . |
| 16 | But at 50°s ; F , it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut , and much below that temperature , digestion ceases , Koi fed on a warm winter 's day will then have to pass a cold winter night , when a gutful of even low-protein pellets can turn into a pathogenic sludge causing liver and kidney failure . |
| 17 | If some is present ( bearing in mind it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut ) , then continue with sinking wheatgerm . |
| 18 | Choose one with a tape at least 3.5m ( 12ft ) long , marked with both metric and imperial measurements ; it 's a good idea to choose one with a lock so you can take long measurements without the tape coiling up . |
| 19 | Cleanaway can take liquid PCBs at its Ellesmere Port establishment , where it is building another plant which will take capacity there to 48,000 tonnes annually . |
| 20 | Most instruction is PADI ; you can take advanced courses on board , but only qualified divers ( SAA , BSAC , PADI , etc ) can take extended cruises . |
| 21 | It comes up just short of the green , but he can putt it and he says , ‘ I can take four putts from here and still win . ’ |
| 22 | He is a most welcome supporter of the Bill It would be helpful if I brought the House up to date on what has happened during the past year , so that hon. Members can take recent developments into account when making up their minds if and when they vote later . |
| 23 | However , if our policies once allow for the possibility of the human race existing for ever , or into the indefinite future , one can take average happiness over all future time as the effective goal , even from the totalistic point of view , since the contribution to quantity of happiness from population size will anyway be maximal . |
| 24 | Whilst we can take suitable precautions within the Library to protect books , we are unable to protect publications on loan to staff , or indeed staff 's own copies of leather-bound books within the Herbarium . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And then we can take appropriate action from there . |
| 27 | Reports : A copy of the report for the library ( two would be even better … ) from which we can take bibliographic information for listings . |
| 28 | The Trustees can take justifiable pride in what has been achieved since the Library 's foundation and particularly in the dramatic expansion of its services in the last few years . |
| 29 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 30 | The weather can upset the best laid plans , but the man who is ahead on his work and has his equipment ready in good order can take quick advantage of short spells of good weather and keep his losses to the minimum . |