Example sentences of "[conj] it have take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 2 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 4 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 5 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
| 6 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 7 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 8 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 9 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 10 | Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field . |
| 11 | Cray Research Inc , which says its scaled down C90s ( see front ) start at $3.25m , reports that it has taken five orders for the smaller systems and is in discussions with more than a dozen other prospects ; an eight-processor version C98 will be leased to the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the fourth quarter ; the model starts at some $12m . |
| 12 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its supercomputer family by the second half of 1994 . |
| 13 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its super computer family by the second half of 1994 . |
| 14 | It took hundreds of millions of years to evolve these abilities , longer , perhaps , than it has taken human beings to evolve from fish . |
| 15 | And it 's taken that length of time to break down the seventy or eighty year barriers that are in existence between workers and management . |
| 16 | Lawrence added : ‘ We have played five games against First Division sides this season and it has taken extra time in the fifth for us to be defeated . |
| 17 | The Snotling base fights at full effect until it has taken 3 wounds when it is removed . |
| 18 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 19 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 20 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 21 | But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late . |
| 22 | But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows . |
| 23 | It was only 10 years ago that the prize-money was less than £80,000 , but it has taken giant strides forward and the future looks even brighter . |
| 24 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 25 | An exact replica of one of them is being shipped to Armenia , right down to blackboards and chalk , but it 's taken top level agreement between Mr Gorbachev and Mrs Thatcher to make it happen . |
| 26 | Rule 5 — 30(1) provides that a firm must not recommend a transaction to a private customer or act as a discretionary manager unless it has taken reasonable steps to enable the private customer to understand the nature of the risks involved . |
| 27 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |