Example sentences of "it take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her foreword , Ruth Richardson , the Minister of Finance ( and not the most popular Kiwi politician ) , expresses it thus : ‘ The special advantages of accrual accounting are that it distinguishes between capital and current spending , and that it takes better account of the cost of current policies for future generations … |
| 2 | It takes 4 hours in each direction , and there is plenty to see as you drift through a landscape where woodlands slope down to the waters edge , medieval towns seem to be snoozing , vineyards look sweet with promise , and heights are crowned mysteriously with fine old castles and monasteries . |
| 3 | It takes 4 days , following a very beautiful rocky and indented coast . |
| 4 | It takes real determination to pack all the country house thriller cliches you can think of into half an hour , but TVS and Ian Stuart Black managed it in House of Glass ( ITV ) , an Appointment With Fear try-out for a post-franchise series . |
| 5 | This involves a different type of responsibility as well , and to accept it takes real courage . |
| 6 | ‘ It takes real guts to carry off such a successful fraud . |
| 7 | In the case of amniocentesis , it takes two-three weeks to grow the culture from which the presence of handicap can be detected . |
| 8 | I feel , however , that it takes insufficient account of the natural caution and pragmatism of the British people , which was admirably reflected in the negotiating approach of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and his colleagues in the Cabinet . |
| 9 | From the olive-branch , modern languages have derived a synonym for ‘ peace ’ ; the reason is that the olive is the product par excellence of peaceful cultivation , because it takes fifteen to twenty years to mature , and the destruction of olives was always the first task of an invading army . |
| 10 | It takes fifteen strokes to get going . |
| 11 | That 's probably why it takes fifteen to eighteen months to get a a result . |
| 12 | But it takes resolute , technologically aware safety management and regulation to maintain them . |
| 13 | Bremel says it takes 6,000 lactating mice to match a cow 's output . |
| 14 | It takes 900 separate pieces of oak to build a typical timber framed house . |
| 15 | It takes regular VHS tapes and offers a 24-hour timer facility . |
| 16 | It takes long hours in the laboratory to convert deadly greenery into a possible lifesaver . |
| 17 | Roses are naturally at their most beautiful in summer , but it takes year-long care to ensure they maintain their glory . |
| 18 | But it takes hundreds of thousands of years for these processes to turn the sediments into carbonate rock , and meanwhile biological changes , it now seems , play a key role in deterring the fluctuating carbon dioxide balance . |
| 19 | It takes specific cultural processes and relationships to , as it were , spark off these latent tendencies . |
| 20 | A second technique is deconcentration — although functions may be departmentalised in a single central government department , it may nevertheless be desirable for administration to be dispersed from the geographical centre and into the regions and localities where it takes actual effect ‘ on the ground ’ . |
| 21 | Experiences , they argued , are identical with brain states ; but when someone is conscious of his experiences he is not conscious of his brain as such : it takes modern science to tell us that consciousness is a state of the brain . |
| 22 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 23 | It takes four days to complete one orbit of Earth . |
| 24 | It takes four place settings and costs £299.90 ( building-in kit extra ) |
| 25 | It takes four AA batteries . |
| 26 | It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light . |
| 27 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
| 28 | Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there . |
| 29 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 30 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |