Example sentences of "[noun] take [art] long time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hyacinth took a long time to respond . |
| 2 | Single gas instantaneous water heaters have their place alongside a storage system ; the main problem with relying on a gas multi-point heater to provide all the house 's hot water is the low flow rate which means baths take a long time to fill . |
| 3 | If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice . |
| 4 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
| 5 | Also the carbs on the SD1 V8 engine take a long time to return to idle when you take your foot off the throttle . |
| 6 | The difference is that your body takes a long time to react to the tetanus antitoxin Sorry , to the tetanus vaccine , to make antibodies against it . |
| 7 | Cardiff was , of course , built on mud flats , and nature takes a long time to change . |
| 8 | Sims took a long time to think about answering that . |
| 9 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 10 | Yes but you know I mean a tr a tree takes a long time to mature does n't it ? |
| 11 | While some customers took a long time to make decisions , other very complicated projects took longer than anticipated to organise . |
| 12 | Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 and wrote The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405 ; the battle for women 's right to equal education took a long time to win . |
| 13 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 14 | But some memories take a long time to go … especially when they 're being preserved by Historical enthusiasts . |
| 15 | We have asked to do so , but changes take a long time to come into effect . |
| 16 | The chemicals are water-borne and the timber takes a long time to dry out . |
| 17 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |
| 18 | Very good very good now a lot of people take a long time to get that . |
| 19 | For one thing they are not really cultivated , mostly because the trees take a long time to bear fruit and even then are not very prolific . |
| 20 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 21 | These services are still delivered through the traditional hierarchical structures with decisions being ‘ handed down ’ and information from the ground level taking a long time to reach and influence the making of decisions and policy . |
| 22 | All fairly straightforward though the coded letter we recovered from his baggage took a long time to crack , while his shaving kit will never be the same again after each piece was stripped to its component parts by one participant . |
| 23 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 24 | The Geometricks styler took a long time to heat up . |
| 25 | But he knows that new formats take a long time to catch on with the public : ‘ We have n't got expectations of hundreds of thousands of units . |
| 26 | Hdtest takes a long time to complete its task ; I just leave it running overnight . |
| 27 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 28 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 29 | The College in Coleman 's reign took a long time to recover from the difficulties of its early days . |
| 30 | O'Hara took a long time to kick-start the motorbike from the kerb . |