Example sentences of "[adv] take a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 2 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 3 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 4 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 5 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 6 | However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow ! |
| 7 | Still takes a long time to chew . |
| 8 | Due to the large spread ( i.e. difference between buying and selling prices ) , it usually takes a substantial rise to enable investors to sell out at a profit . |
| 9 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He also took a nightly bath containing lavender , clary-sage or chamomile — sometimes a blend of all three essences . |
| 11 | Also the fragility of the grammar — there are a number of features that are not covered by the grammar and it often takes a long time to reject the sentence . |
| 12 | But does it really take a trained critic to warn viewers of what is so plainly , desperately obvious ? |
| 13 | Lord Ennals said : ‘ It took a Labour government to create the NHS and it will now take a Labour government to save the NHS . ’ |
| 14 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 15 | At least I had the money , painfully scraped together with a view to eventually taking a PGCE-TEFL course to upgrade my qualifications and enable me to escape from Clive 's power . |
| 16 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |
| 17 | Instead he put her feet to the ground , then took a clean handkerchief to dab gently at the broken skin , saying as he did so , ‘ There 's a first-aid kit in the minibus . |
| 18 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 19 | Once the T-bar drag-lift had been invented and installed in Davos in 1934 , it was possible to get to runs , which had previously taken a twenty-minute climb to reach , in half a minute . |
| 20 | American war photographer Chris Morris recently took a rare break to attend the second festival of photojournalism in Perpignan where he spoke to Ted Welch about his images and his time in Iraq . |
| 21 | He recently took a rare break to attend the second festival of photojournalism in Perpignan where he spoke to Ted Welch about his time in Iraq . |