Example sentences of "[conj] it take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is a single function relating arousal and memory it seems likely that it takes the inverted-U shape which is often suggested to describe the relationship between task performance and memory , with memory impairments occurring at very low or very high levels of arousal . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | But this does not mean that it takes the conservative stance of necessarily accepting existing definitions of crime . |
| 5 | Ian can blast this cruise missile on wheels to 100mph in less time than it takes the average family car to reach 30mph . |
| 6 | There 's no money in them and it takes the right machinery to cut them up . |
| 7 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 8 | Where plot might be jettisoned , story is retained as a principle of connection : ‘ Once the story is launched it must go on it must follow its course however crooked it may be even if it takes the wrong direction ’ ( 1976b ) . |
| 9 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 10 | The Shorthorn/Highland first cross has always been popular but it took the concerted efforts of the three Cadzow brothers on an island off the west coast of Scotland to consolidate the virtues of the cross and turn it into a genuine breed , the Luing , named after the island of its origin . |
| 11 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 12 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 13 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 14 | This was critical , since it took the new tax from being a hybrid to being a loosely-disguised property tax . |
| 15 | There can be no sense in the DTI 's refusal to publish the House of Fraser report on the grounds that it might prejudice a Serious Fraud Office inquiry when it took the opposite course over Blue Arrow . |
| 16 | This is called benevolence , more especially so when it takes the broad form of a wish for the happiness of others in general . |