Example sentences of "it takes the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It takes the total cost of the package for Britain to at least £1.3bn .
2 However , the best reason for making a will is that it takes the practical burden from the shoulders of those you leave behind .
3 This is called benevolence , more especially so when it takes the broad form of a wish for the happiness of others in general .
4 No apparently it takes the whole top of it
5 The advantage of the notional syllabus is that it takes the communicative facts of language into account from the beginning without losing sight of grammatical and situational factors .
6 It takes the same amount of fuel to cook for 20 as it does to cook for 10 .
7 But this does not mean that it takes the conservative stance of necessarily accepting existing definitions of crime .
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