Example sentences of "it takes a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also good-quality stuff , and it takes a good couple of minutes of comparing the grain on the outside and the inside of the guitar to make absolutely sure that the back and sides are n't actually solid . |
| 2 | It takes a good deal of suppleness to be able to get both your elbows onto the ground — you might only get your hands flat on the floor to begin with . |
| 3 | As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn . |
| 4 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 5 | It takes a tremendous amount of organisation . ’ |
| 6 | But it takes a supreme act of faith to believe that everything will be ready on time . |
| 7 | As Clower pointed out , it takes a strange contortion of language to characterize the 1930s as a period in which the basic problem was that of an excess demand for goods ! |
| 8 | It takes a great deal of prestidigitatory skill to poison someone before your very eyes so to speak . ’ |
| 9 | It takes a great deal of sensitivity to provide activities which stimulate the patient 's interest , without exhausting him or making him frustrated if he can not achieve what he wants or what you hope for . |
| 10 | Since foxes are basically nocturnal animals it takes a great deal of time and patience to shoot a fox , and also a good shot at close range . |
| 11 | It takes a great deal of time to embroider a sampler in silks or wools , but it is a much swifter process when using pressed flowers . |
| 12 | It takes a great deal of time and money to establish a brand which explains why predators may be willing , when purchasing a company with strong brand identification , to pay far more than the stock market valuation of that company . |
| 13 | The major problem with the method is that it takes a great deal of time , attention and patience . |
| 14 | Inevitably it takes a great deal of time to go into these cases . |
| 15 | It takes a wide range of prey , and its prey assemblages are taxonomically diverse and have high equitability . |
| 16 | Although the orang-utan of Sumatra and Borneo is primarily a fruit-eater , it takes a wide variety of foods including leaves , young shoots , flowers , pith and bark and occasionally mineral-rich soil , insects and possibly small vertebrates and birds eggs . |
| 17 | His lyrics are abysmal tosh , his singing voice so stunted , adenoidal and gumby that it takes a real effort of will to remember that this is n't a joke , that this man is actually worshipped as a rock god by literally millions of depressed , terminally adolescent would-be heroin addicts worldwide . |
| 18 | It takes a certain type of man to do a neighbourhood beat . |
| 19 | A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output . |
| 20 | Fuel is these young mothers ' greatest problem : it takes a large chunk of their small income , and many mothers are also housed on estates with either excessive heating costs or minimal heating provisions , which forces them to use expensive alternatives . |
| 21 | It takes a little bit of a little bit of maturity a little bit of communication skills and not everybody 's got that . |
| 22 | And it takes a full 3lbs of that grain to produce just 1lb of poultry . |
| 23 | If we make the more realistic assumption that it takes a finite period of time then we have to take into account the fact that replacement of the lower lithosphere by hot asthenosphere during extension will lead to heat being conducted laterally into unextended , and therefore unthinned , lithosphere , as well as vertically into the overlying upper lithosphere ( Fig. 4.17 ( C ) ) . |
| 24 | Therefore , as it takes a considerable amount of time to scan the tapes looking for rarely occurring variants , we have selected one particular variable of this kind , which we call meat/mate , and have studied this quantitatively outside the main projects in a different way . |
| 25 | It takes a considerable amount of time to conduct an audit covering the points mentioned above , and this time is expensive in labour costs . |
| 26 | IT takes a special group of dancers to drive a choreographed axis through the music of SaintSaens and the Rolling Stones London Contemporary Dance Theatre is that special group . |
| 27 | That er when you get these these er er reputations or whatever it is , it takes an awful lot of living down . |
| 28 | It takes an awful lot of the different kind of practical experience . |
| 29 | It takes an initial order of objects and applies random changes to the order , viz sub-order reversals and sub-order translations ( 13 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ If a rusty water pipe bursts it takes an enormous amount of time to find the money to carry out the repairs . |