Example sentences of "it [adv] takes [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams . |
| 2 | On the Rio Negro in Amazonia it apparently takes 80 years to reach half the mature biomass , suggesting that a return to forest is possible . |
| 3 | It only takes 10 paying guests to benefit from the reduced admission prices . |
| 4 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 5 | Above The vulnerable beauty of Killary harbour : ‘ It only takes one fool to drop a barrel of chemicals , ’ Peter Mantle says , ‘ and we 're all wiped out . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It only takes one fanatic , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said heavily . |
| 7 | On the evidence of its showing , SAS/EIS is certainly the kind of tool that will empower decision makers with the ability to study their companies and markets in new ways , with only minimum recall to the services of in-house software engineers — ‘ even a CEO can use this because it only takes one finger , ’ claims Jim Goodnight , SAS chief executive officer . |
| 8 | Cable should n't be run under a carpet unless it 's suitably protected — it only takes one stiletto heel to bring your network down ! |
| 9 | But , it only takes one car ! |
| 10 | There 's an old saying : ‘ It only takes one spark to start a fire . ’ |
| 11 | It only takes one media scare story ( Pill Deaths Quadruple ! ) or one neighbour being suddenly rushed to hospital , to make thousands of women think twice about using a particular form of contraception . |
| 12 | It only takes one lapse and a match can undergo a total transformation — there must be no slip-ups , ’ adds McGrath . |
| 13 | It only takes one bad result and the pressure on . |
| 14 | A full game at this level would probably take three days so it 's highly unlikely anyone will bother , but the first four levels take a minute or less and even at Level Seven it only takes five — overall , this is n't a slow program . |
| 15 | Simply peg out the design , wind on the warp thread and get weaving — it only takes five minutes . |
| 16 | It only takes two or three volunteers on a busy market day or Saturday afternoon to gather several hundred signatures . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 18 | It only takes half a second to save that relatively small range . |
| 19 | That small file , and it only takes half a second to combine that relatively small file to there . |
| 20 | erm and the beauty of it is , it only takes , from here it only takes half an hour to get there |
| 21 | but it skims across the surface of the water and it 's very quick , it only takes half an hour to go from Ramsgate to Dover . |
| 22 | It only takes half an hour to go to Austria does n't it ? |
| 23 | It dries right quick , it just takes that chill off |
| 24 | It normally takes six months from filling out a form to getting permission to emigrate . |
| 25 | It took mum two hours to get to Debenham and it normally takes half an hour . |
| 26 | It generally takes six months to get a tribunal hearing and it 's FREE . |
| 27 | About half the throws hit their target and it generally takes eight direct hits and about five minutes to crack the egg open . |
| 28 | EXCEPT where rocks are heavily cracked or fissured , it usually takes many years for water to find its way down through the soil and the unsaturated zone to the saturated zone of an aquifer . |
| 29 | Many beautiful animal portraits have been submitted over the months of the competition , but it usually takes that special ‘ something ’ to create the magic of a prize-winning photograph — perhaps a bird captured in mid-flight , or the moment of sheer wonder on a child 's face as it encounters one of the several animal species now allowed to roam freely in the zoo grounds . |
| 30 | Preventing own goals is a prudent tactic , but it usually takes more to win . |