Example sentences of "it [adv] takes [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plus , it only takes seconds to connect up , and as time is money that 's always important . |
| 2 | ( This is one event I have not seen personally , as it only takes place every seven years , the next being due in 1990. ) the last perambulation took place in August 1983 , with about 500 people taking part in the fourteen mile walk . |
| 3 | Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site . |
| 4 | It only takes Ahmed or yourself to press the button . |
| 5 | Send in the form at any time during the year , but it only takes effect at the beginning of the next tax year , in April . |
| 6 | ‘ It obviously takes food to keep you in a good mood , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 7 | ( it obviously takes years to graduate ) . |
| 8 | It literally takes seconds for a message typed in by someone in Britain to arrive at an address in the US , or Australia , or wherever . |
| 9 | The hope on the part of the Berkeley Software contingent that Novell Inc will quash the suit once it finally takes Unix Labs over may turn out to be a forlorn one . |
| 10 | What makes these system knowledge-based is not that it somehow takes knowledge to write them , nor that they behave as if they had knowledge , but rather that their architectures include explicit knowledge bases . |
| 11 | Women 's work in the countries of the Third World is generally rendered ‘ invisible ’ by normal national accounting procedures because it usually takes place outside the conventional sphere of wage labour , mostly on the family farm and in the home . |
| 12 | All this is natural transformation , but it usually takes seasons before the consequences of these changes become apparent . |
| 13 | Should it ever takes place . |
| 14 | if it ever takes place , and also Les who 's the chief engineer effectively at Dunstable . |
| 15 | The one used in London can handle fifty million pieces of information in one second , and it still takes minutes to produce a forecast for a few days ahead . |
| 16 | Erm because it is an onerous task , erm onerous in terms of the time that needs spending doing the job even if it 's relatively simple in terms of what needs to be done it still takes time and there 's still running around to do . |
| 17 | Whenever refraction takes place it always takes place according to the law of refraction stated above . |
| 18 | ‘ There are a few new faces in the team , and when you have that it always takes time for things to settle down . ’ |
| 19 | See , it also takes members of the public to phone in . |
| 20 | It also takes part in the ecumenical National Retreat Association which through its National Retreat Centre offers resources , information and an annual magazine called Vision which gives information about retreats and retreat houses . |
| 21 | Although in many cases this will mean that a solution to a problem is found , it also takes account of the fact that some problems are insoluble . |
| 22 | Apart from the National Club League , it also takes care of the tennis interests for Rover Cars , Nomura , Puma and Eagle Star . |
| 23 | It probably takes time to enter the cell and to activate a cascade of intracellular mechanisms leading to secretion of water and electrolytes . |
| 24 | One of the persistent misconceptions about professional work in the human service occupations is that it mainly takes place face to face with clients or patients and that time spent with others about the client or patient is a necessary but regrettable adjunct to the real work . |
| 25 | Lorenz had his model restored and it now takes pride of place on his writing desk , decorated in the colours of the aircraft flown by Helmut Lennartz also formerly of III/JG7 . |
| 26 | It now takes place over the weekend of April 24 and 25 . |
| 27 | It now takes place , for the most part , within large and various Polytechnics or in Universities rather than in monotechnic , specialist , institutions . |
| 28 | Perhaps not in the sense of de Maria or Ericson and Ziegler but surely so in the sense that the idea of it often takes precedence over all other of its aspects . |
| 29 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 30 | It often takes place on the very instant that the contract is made . |