Example sentences of "it take [adj] effort " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes little effort of the imagination to put oneself in Theo 's shoes , and feel the grey , correct , judicious side of his character flinching from the terrifying sincerity of Vincent 's outpourings . |
| 2 | If you want to be a great player , it takes extra effort . ’ |
| 3 | All these mistakes are only too easy to make , and it takes constant effort to keep oneself up to the mark . |
| 4 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 5 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 6 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 7 | It took some effort for Charles not to lose heart . |
| 8 | It took some effort to stay upright with such variations in terrain . |
| 9 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |