Example sentences of "have take [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 2 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
| 3 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 4 | Those who deny that have only to ask themselves who would have taken the responsibility had we failed . |
| 5 | He should have taken the decision to allow women to be ordained instead of opening the issue to a damaging debate that has succeeded only in widening rifts within the Church . |
| 6 | Coleridge must soon have taken the poem to read to the Wordsworths , and in the following month had an even more substantial achievement to show them . |
| 7 | It may not be , and Hakel and Reimer might have taken the opportunity to sow more seeds of doubt , or at least put the certified cause of death in an historical perspective : 100 years ago a recorded cause of death from heart disease ( except for congenital malformations and valve defects ) was barely known , yet ischaemic heart disease must surely have existed . |
| 8 | When the present Secretary of State addressed the House on that occasion , he might also have taken the opportunity to draw to the attention of the House and to remind the public outside , particularly in Scotland , that the nature of sovereignty in the Scottish constitutional tradition is different from that of Westminster . |
| 9 | If Yuri Rudakov , undressing in the front bedroom of their bungalow , had not been so tired , he would have taken the time to admire the new nightdress that his wife wore as she sat against the pillows and turned the pages of a picture magazine . |
| 10 | It was enough that he should have taken the trouble to visit her and offer his apologies . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that Eliot would have taken the trouble to defend Kipling against the charge of race superiority if he had believed in it himself . |
| 12 | And a mere pickpocket would not have taken the trouble to steam the envelope open . ’ |
| 13 | It would have taken an army to shift the travellers once they got to Castlemorton . |
| 14 | It is not possible to determine the number of such people among the 119 recorded as dying in 1990 or how many would not have taken an overdose had they been aware that paracetamol , if taken in large quantities , often results in a painful and lingering death due to liver failure . |
| 15 | Iro has been in poor form for the Sea Eagles and was told several weeks ago that he would have to take a pay cut to stay with the club . |
| 16 | If the appeal is lost you will have to take the steps required in the enforcement notice . |