Example sentences of "it [vb mod] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not expect instant results , especially if the baby has diarrhoea or colic — it may take up to two weeks for the baby 's digestive system to return to normal . |
| 2 | It may take up to eight weeks to evaluate your program , so please be patient . |
| 3 | In fact , it may take up to a week before your bank actually receives the money . |
| 4 | It is considered that after large trees are felled it may take up to I 2 months for the sub-soil to achieve stability . |
| 5 | Clearance applications require planning as it may take up to 30 days to obtain clearance . |
| 6 | This acts as an insurance against driving protest below the surface where it may take on more sinister forms . |
| 7 | The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero . |
| 8 | The centre-left American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA — whose leader , former President Alan García , was in exile in Colombia ) , despite internal divisions over the stance which it should take on the poll , called on its supporters to spoil their papers . |
| 9 | As erm as a doctor , Bill , I have ingrained on my heart Aneurin Bevan 's words when the National Health Service was introduced in this country by the post-war Labour government , against the wishes of my colleagues , and he commented that he would erm cross our palms with silver , and he did that very successfully , with the result that he stifled a lot of opposition amongst some very powerful people , and erm of course when you 're trying to introduce a new scheme such as this and you 're terribly keen that erm it should take off and be successful , you do , of course , cross palms with silver . |
| 10 | It must take up all of your spare time just to keep it in tune . |
| 11 | but then I thought it might take up too much space . |
| 12 | It 'll take up to 6 months to rebuild . |
| 13 | otherwise it 'll take about , over half an hour |
| 14 | Throughout its existence , London Switchboard has always had more would-be volunteers than it could take on . |
| 15 | I have visions of bosses all over the land going hot under the collar as they see yet more of their staff enjoying the antics of this old salt — it could take over where Leisure Suit Larry left off . |
| 16 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 17 | Do n't wait until Christmas Eve to defrost the turkey — it could take up to two days to thaw ! |
| 18 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 19 | It also said that it could take up to 15 years to clean up oil pollution along the Saudi Arabian coast . |
| 20 | However , it could take up to a week before he can open his eyes . |
| 21 | It could take up to four years before a full hearing in the European Court , but Liberty 's legal officer , John Wadham , suggested yesterday that the action might prompt the Government to include a mechanism for complaints over GCHQ in its forthcoming bill to put the Secret Intelligence Service , MI6 , on a statutory footing . |
| 22 | we 've had it , went , he went back to the doctors today and she said it could take up to six to eight weeks to get out your system . |
| 23 | Yeah well it well it 'd take up disk space unnecessarily |
| 24 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
| 25 | It would take up more space than we could spare . |
| 26 | To do the line justice , it would take up the next six issues , so I intend to show you only some of the more interesting such as the First Class blank Privilege Ticket . |
| 27 | Lt-Col. Hugo Chávez Frias , the leader of the February 1992 attempted military coup [ see pp. 38759-60 ] , warned in a radio interview conducted from prison where he was awaiting trial , that the dissident Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement ( MBR ) which led the February coup was gaining strength in the army and that it would take up arms once more if there were no drastic changes in the country 's leadership . |
| 28 | ‘ It would take up to two years to collect the information and in the meantime we would restore the old rates , ’ he said . |
| 29 | The summary is essentially confined to factual information , otherwise it would take on the shape of a formal report requiring certain strict legal procedures — of which more later . |
| 30 | it would take on . |