Example sentences of "can take a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a time when we can take a deep breath , assess where we are and make a start on our anticipatory mourning for our fate . |
| 2 | And as I say , if they are perfect men , maybe they can take a deep breath and stop just like that . |
| 3 | We can take a good look at the Wheel , ’ she explained with embarrassing stridency . |
| 4 | ‘ Who knows if Lennox can take a good punch after this ? |
| 5 | It can take a good typist ten minutes to re-type an A4 page of text , and a poor one even longer . |
| 6 | That means that the British Government could , as it did in September 1988 , simply decree that the courts can take a negative view of any defendant who chooses not to co-operate with the police , or take the stand in his or her own defence , as in the changes in the right to silence rules . |
| 7 | She long ago learned that the pressure of fame and the goldfish bowl existence it brings can take a terrible toll . |
| 8 | Having lost the ideological battle for being the party of law and order , will the next Labour Government want to show that it , too , can take a firm line over public order , fraud , social monitoring and industrial militancy . |
| 9 | We 'll fly nose-down , but we can take a rough ride and it might just save you a laser shave when I start shooting . |
| 10 | At present , once an employee has reached the top band of his grade , performance points can take a Unified Grade 7 employee 's pay up to £34,667 . |
| 11 | It is situated facing the lush and attractive Borghese Gardens where guests can take a leisurely stroll away from the bustle of the city . |
| 12 | The Adjudication Committee can take a broad range of actions in relation to complaints : it can : |
| 13 | If the potential function of the ion shows no minimum , but a continuous decrease in energy with increasing internuclear distance , there are no discrete vibrational levels ; can take a continuous range of values , giving a broad band . |
| 14 | Within the legal container of marriage , the idealization and illusion so characteristic or the in-love state can take a nasty knock . |
| 15 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 16 | Happy couples can take a long walk , without a word spoken , for the quality of silence says it all . |
| 17 | The trouble has been , however , that with the longer construction periods for nuclear stations and the further period before their cheaper running costs will allegedly show up , it can take a long time to see which way the scales really tip . |
| 18 | An old person who is bedbound may get pressure sores or ulcers in a very short time and these can take a long time to heal ( see page 78 ) . |
| 19 | Reconciling yourself to making the final decision can take a long time and be very painful . |
| 20 | Be warned though : commercial music can take a long time to clear and can also be expensive . |
| 21 | It can take a long time for a woman to rid herself of the automatic assumptions that she has absorbed about home-making , and learn to fashion an approach which suits her and her family . |
| 22 | The solvents persist for many years , and can take a long time to be degraded or removed ; the good news is that , unlike some other forms of pollution , spillages of volatile organochlorines are apparently becoming rarer as awareness of the consequences of poor practice increases . |
| 23 | Cuffs and hem are knitted , and though this does n't suit everyone — the knitting can take a long time to dry out if it gets wet — I do n't find it unacceptable . |
| 24 | Like a wound in your own flesh , a clean cut heals quickly , but a jagged , ragged , bruised gash can take a long time to heel and is open to infection all that time . |
| 25 | Biodegradable : Materials will degrade if buried , but this can take a long time ( plastics can take hundreds of years ) . |
| 26 | It is much easier to improve ‘ performance ’ on such measures by decreasing the denominator than by increasing the numerator , which can take a long time , involves risk and has to be discounted for taxation . |
| 27 | The flight action is superb although it can take a long time to get to grips with all the features of the program . |
| 28 | Defending a petition can take a long time and be expensive . |
| 29 | Fan assisted cabinets have a very rapid recovery following an air change , whereas plate evaporator designs can take a long time to return to the correct storage temperature . |
| 30 | But it also makes everything quite difficult to fully understand as it can take a long time to see what is really being said . |