Example sentences of "take many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work takes many hours and is done with the type and number of stitches appropriate to the fabric and in the way demanded by the factory . |
| 2 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 3 | Co-operation takes many forms throughout nature . |
| 4 | Eavesdropping takes many forms . |
| 5 | Resistance to the philosophy of animal rights takes many forms , from the incredulous ( ‘ You ca n't be serious ! ’ ) to the superficial ( ‘ What about carrots ? ’ ) , and from the arrogant ( as in the increasingly heard boast of American researchers , ‘ I 'm a speciesist and proud of it ! ’ ) to the deep . |
| 6 | Recognize that grief takes many forms . |
| 7 | The experiment takes many forms , but one of the commonest is to show the animal subject a set of photographs — of trees , of a river , lakes , grassland and so on . |
| 8 | I have also suggested that although research is a key component of professional practice , it takes many forms , and the various types of research I have described feed professional knowledge in many ways . |
| 9 | One of the concomitants of O'Brian 's writing , the blessed undercurrent of humour , by no means common in sea-stones , takes many forms . |
| 10 | His approach is particularly important in helping us to grasp that control is not just negative , and might in fact be just as tight today despite an ostensible ‘ liberalisation ’ , that power over sexuality is not in the simple form of censorship and denial but in regulation and organisation , and that this takes many forms . |
| 11 | ‘ WESTERN EUROPE ’ takes many forms ; but whether one looks at a group of about 10 nations , or a more complete group of 20 or so , the crucial difference from both the USA and Japan is the presence of a jumble of nation-states of different sizes and distinctive history . |
| 12 | Promotion , as any marketing person knows , takes many forms . |
| 13 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 14 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 15 | The poor in all countries struggle against the domestic and global forces that oppress them and their resistance takes many forms . |
| 16 | Conversion takes many forms and different amounts of time . |
| 17 | Ingleborough 's many tops , pavements and moors occupy a large complex area which takes many visits to really get to know . |
| 18 | EXCEPT where rocks are heavily cracked or fissured , it usually takes many years for water to find its way down through the soil and the unsaturated zone to the saturated zone of an aquifer . |
| 19 | One of the problems of studying nitrate pollution is that the water that replenishes aquifers — particularly the Chalk — typically takes many years to travel from the soil to the water table . |
| 20 | It remains to be seen how a rhino , which takes many years to evolve and which has evolved with a horn , will learn to survive without one . |
| 21 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 22 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 23 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 24 | Income support rise ‘ derisory ’ : This week 's rise takes many pensioners back to where they were 18 months ago , Sue Fieldman reports |
| 25 | Discovering it takes many months . |
| 26 | Although we can quickly reset our watches , our body clock takes many days to adjust , and so instructs the pineal to produce melatonin at the wrong time of day , causing jet-lag . |
| 27 | It would take many pages to list all the ones which have been identified by researchers today , but the phenomenon was not just confined to recordings . |
| 28 | Yet the story says simply what it may take many pages to explain in words . |
| 29 | We have tried to make the questions simple but comprehensive so that it wo n't take many minutes to fill in but your answers will give us a good idea of what is wanted and what is not . |
| 30 | Because they are deflected by electric and magnetic fields , charged particles can take many hours to reach the earth ; neutrons are unaffected by such fields , hence they travel much faster and can serve as an early warning signal . |