Example sentences of "could take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked whether clerics really could take authoritative decisions on issues such as oil production , he replied with the practised gestures of a man used to presenting arguments to the sceptical : ‘ Islam can solve all difficulties ; it was so in the past and it will be the same in the future . ’ |
| 2 | Dr Bacher , who confessed to feeling ‘ incredibly emotional , ’ said he was ‘ really happy we could take two teams on tour — the senior side which demonstrates where we are coming from , and the youth team where we are going . ’ |
| 3 | Mr de Benedetti has protested his innocence and is to appeal , a process that could take two years to complete . |
| 4 | He has been told he has only months to live , but the case could take two years before the Court of Session in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 6 | Mrs Mawdsley then asked administration manager Dave McCreary if she could take two weeks ' annual leave and a week 's unpaid leave to go on holiday . |
| 7 | Erm you could take two cars if you want to . |
| 8 | I put the receiver down for a moment so that I could take two hands to the strawboard . |
| 9 | A house of this size could take two men six months to thatch , and it might - need to be re-ridged every five years or so and re-thatched every twenty to thirty years . |
| 10 | You think I could take such knowledge calmly ? |
| 11 | But if it had better-information about what was likely to happen in the economy than the private sector , the government could take such measures . |
| 12 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 13 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |
| 14 | Reviving the moribund nuclear industry would be tough and unpopular , and could take many years to produce more power . |
| 15 | The half life of the parietal cell is 23 days in rats and presumably much longer in man and therefore it could take many months for resoluion of an increased parietal cell mass . |
| 16 | Rehearsals for important premieres , such as the first Polish performance of Shostakovich 's Fourteenth Symphony at an inaugural concert of the Warsaw Autumn , could take many weeks . |
| 17 | Reform could take many guises , but there would have to be large investment in housing renewal , educational provision and job creation , while steps would need to be taken to reduce the real but , Scarman argued , not institutionalized , racism apparent within the Metropolitan Police . |
| 18 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 19 | Again , the Leader of the Opposition seemed not to grasp the fact that , in article 118B , the social chapter provided for circumstances in which , if European businesses and trade unions agreed , they could take Europe-wide action through the Council without reference to the European Parliament , let alone this one . |
| 20 | But they assured him that they could take that part of it out , which of course they did . |
| 21 | I really believed you could take that way out . |
| 22 | Before he could speak , Culley continued , ‘ On the other hand , I could take that beer can , ram it up your ass and kick it out through your teeth . |
| 23 | Following a meeting this morning at the Department of Energy , may I ask him to arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement answering the anger in Coventry , not just about the way in which the pit was closed and the loss of jobs , but the belief that the closure took place to mothball 40 million tonnes of medium sulphur content coal so that , were the Conservatives to be re-elected and the pits privatised , Daw Mill could take that coal out in a UDM pit ? |
| 24 | But erm it could take that length of time . |
| 25 | So I 'm suggesting that that , we could take that box out er er and this be re-phrased as a sentence , either at the top |
| 26 | I could take that tape to some of the houses I go to , but every other word they use is an F word ! |
| 27 | ‘ That could take all afternoon . ’ |
| 28 | It could take all night , writes Dan Conaghan . |
| 29 | It could take all night . |
| 30 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |