Example sentences of "[coord] it take [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also good-quality stuff , and it takes a good couple of minutes of comparing the grain on the outside and the inside of the guitar to make absolutely sure that the back and sides are n't actually solid . |
| 2 | But not all mosquitoes that breed in puddles or water pots are vectors of malaria , and it takes a competent entomologist to distinguish the dangerous from the harmless and to carry out this ‘ species sanitation ’ . |
| 3 | Analysis is a very slow process and it takes a long time to weed through the past and try to discover what things happened to you that affected you . |
| 4 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |
| 5 | Food photography is all about presentation and it takes a long time , which is why we have a new home economist on the team . |
| 6 | The people are generally friendly but shy and it takes a long time to gain their confidence to the point where they will teach a visiting scientist the secrets of their art . |
| 7 | It seems to me that you get these big moments in the life of the church , as you do in the life of any institution , historically speaking , and it takes a long time for you to discover what the effect of them is going to be . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a celebration of the best of a woman when a designer makes a great dress , and it takes a certain intelligence to carry it off . |
| 9 | And it takes a crummy gumshoe to get me out of trouble . ’ |
| 10 | Most good dealers are compulsive buyers , and it takes a sympathetic backer to control without stifling flair . |
| 11 | But , when you look at it in that context it becomes very much erm , part of your life , and it takes an awful lot to break that habit and there 's no help . |
| 12 | There 's no money in them and it takes the right machinery to cut them up . |
| 13 | A horrible weakness seemed to have invaded her limbs and it took a supreme effort to drag her attention back to the conversation . |
| 14 | Jenna slept badly , waking with a throbbing pain in her head , and it took a great effort to swing both her feet from the bed and sit on the edge . |
| 15 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 16 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 17 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 18 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 19 | Portadown however remained dangerous and it took a superb block from Michael Smyth to deny Cunningham after brilliant work from Martin Russell on the left . |
| 20 | The only unqualified crossover success in recent years has been Cher , and it took a minor miracle for her to get there . |
| 21 | His dark brown gaze locked on to her own wide open blue eyes , and it took an enormous effort for her to look away from him . |
| 22 | But it takes a supreme act of faith to believe that everything will be ready on time . |
| 23 | But I 'm not saying that people are incompetent , but it takes a certain amount |
| 24 | Anyone can be a biological mother , but it takes a professional woman to make a good job of it . |
| 25 | But it takes a mighty age to tell its tale and dives head-first into the soap suds along the way . |
| 26 | But it takes a long time to regain trust . |
| 27 | But it takes a different form , chiefly private transactions . |
| 28 | Ultimately one admires its naturalness , its ability simply to relay the balance and range that Rattle has fashioned from the podium ( or so it seems ) , but it takes a little while . |
| 29 | But it takes no long reflexion to see that , in this case , if the interrogative is acceptable , then it asks for a straightforward manner adverbial or its equivalent as an answer , and it is not directly related to the sentences in ( 33 ) . |
| 30 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |