Example sentences of "it takes a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes a strongly integrative approach to assessment , incorporating case studies , assignments , and a major mechatronics project . |
| 2 | It takes a pretty tolerant company to put up with my taste in ties , for example . |
| 3 | I suppose it takes a pretty special sort of screw to be able to work in those conditions , to choose to work down there , but they were totally inhuman . |
| 4 | IT 'S that time of year when there seems to be a party every other night and it takes a little extra imagination to make you stand out from the crowd . |
| 5 | It takes a little more perception to appreciate what she is going through inside . ’ |
| 6 | It takes a truly inventive society to turn debt into an attractive — perhaps the ultimate — commodity . |
| 7 | The literature on the structure and tectonic development of plate margins is vast , but unfortunately very little of it takes a specifically geomorphic perspective . |
| 8 | But it takes a very brilliant general , a Napoleon , to see the obvious . |
| 9 | This is hardly surprising as it takes a very buoyant personality indeed to cope with what appears to be constant rejection . |
| 10 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 11 | Er , what companies can do , or should seek to do , is of course , see if they can manage round those tensions as well , but it takes a very long time to do that . |
| 12 | It takes a very special person to dedicate so much of his life to helping others when he could have just milked the lecture circuit for his own gain . |
| 13 | It takes a very special person to be a referee . |
| 14 | It takes a very special sort of relationship to be able to withstand constant absences . ’ |
| 15 | Conversely , it takes a quite massive amount of scientific evidence to have a substance positively recommended for health . |
| 16 | It takes a relatively modest amount of scientific evidence to have a substance banned . |
| 17 | It takes an extra special player , right out of the top class , to win an Open — I suppose on the eve of the Open there are no more than ten players , if that , who have the game , the will and the sheer bloody-mindedness to become the Champion . |
| 18 | Because there are a great number of possible tissue types it takes an extremely large register of prospective donors to find a matched unrelated donor for every patient and sometimes the search is unsuccessful . |
| 19 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 20 | It takes an awful long time for you to regain that and to feel safe in your own homes . |