Example sentences of "take time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pasta contains complex carbohydrates so takes time to be digested . |
| 2 | Sure , they 're more upfront , but it takes time to actually understand what 's being said . |
| 3 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 4 | Your learned friend very fairly set the sort of orders one would expect in the case of this sort , erm , can I only add one thing which erm there is still a , failing erm his right there should have been an adjournment this morning that the question of a structured settlement could be investigated , all these people who have indeed , it must be from the plaintiff 's point of view as well , desirable that those investigations be erm carried out , with the greatest , greatest speed possible , obviously it takes time to er instruct the and so on and erm , it seemed er to me that it would be appropriate to include some of the I happen to discuss with my friend , erm providing for the matter to be brought back not later than a certain time |
| 5 | The main problem is that while the software can generate the presentaion very quickly the slides themselves do take time to image , it 's not like taking a conventional photograph . |
| 6 | What it means is that I have to be with him , except when I 'm working , since he ca n't always take time to be with me . ’ |
| 7 | For those who live at the home of British Motor-racing , it may sometimes be noisy and congested and it may take time to be served in the local shop . |
| 8 | Most departments had their offices , though there were constant difficulties about telephones and electricity supplies , and very little in the way of fans ; communications between departments had to be carried on by messenger , for internal postal services were taking time to be reorganised . |
| 9 | The solution — Polaris — took time to be developed . |
| 10 | Changes in rules governing forms of organisation , though , took time to be implemented . |
| 11 | But it is possible that the details took time to be formulated . |
| 12 | But it is possible that the details took time to be formulated . |
| 13 | When they quit the market and ICI became our main supplier , the relationship took time to bed down but ICI 's performance now is excellent . ’ |
| 14 | models are : ( a ) they take time to be developed , and are thus less useful for producing quick answers , ( b ) they can represent an over-simplified picture of a particular set of conditions , and therefore may suggest only partial solutions , and ( c ) they may be resisted by line managers on the grounds that such models are too theoretical to be put into practice . |