Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform .
2 The dominion status declaration was made in October 1929 and met on the Congress side by what amounted to a demand that it take immediate effect .
3 He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films .
4 Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department .
5 Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained .
6 The Guide-lines Commission interpreted an ambiguous statutory injunction that it take correctional resources into ‘ substantial consideration ’ as a mandate that its guide-lines not increase prison population beyond existing capacity constraints ( Tonry 1988 ) .
7 Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid .
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