Example sentences of "it [adv] takes [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the ongoing maintenance requirements which will be most scrutinised by the environmental health officer , and in many cases , it only takes a dirty grease filter system dripping onto the food cooking surfaces to alert the authorities . |
| 2 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 3 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 4 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 5 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |
| 6 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 7 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 8 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 9 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 10 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 11 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 12 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 13 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 14 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 15 | Still , it only takes a few bars of Kondrashin ( the work 's first interpreter ) to feel what the music is really driving at — this is part of a two-disc set with the first three symphonies on Le Chant du Monde . |
| 16 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 17 | ‘ I believe everyone has innate creativity ’ she confided in me , ‘ but with some it just takes a little bit of coaxing before it will surface ’ . |
| 18 | It just takes an ingenious mind and an ability to do crosswords and you can prove anything with words . |
| 19 | The first term is always an unsettling time , and it generally takes a few weeks before students become familiar with each other , and work together effectively . |
| 20 | It usually takes a great deal longer than is originally planned and hence , to a lesser degree in most cases , a larger amount of resources . |
| 21 | Due to the large spread ( i.e. difference between buying and selling prices ) , it usually takes a substantial rise to enable investors to sell out at a profit . |
| 22 | One day there will be a serious industrial accident ; there are occasional near misses and worse ; but it usually takes a good measure of folly , inattention and misfortune to overwhelm good plant and a safe system . |
| 23 | Okay , so it still takes the best part of an hour to move the next ten paces past passport control . |
| 24 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 25 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 26 | The only problem is that it now takes a baffling turn . |
| 27 | In a big house it often takes a long time for everyone to find ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 28 | Also the fragility of the grammar — there are a number of features that are not covered by the grammar and it often takes a long time to reject the sentence . |
| 29 | As the Foreign Secretary pointed out this afternoon , it increasingly takes a co-ordinated view of foreign policy issues . |
| 30 | It then takes a major blow to fracture it . |