Example sentences of "it have take [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken 13 years to come to this position . |
| 2 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 3 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 4 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 5 | Rule 5 — 30(1) provides that a firm must not recommend a transaction to a private customer or act as a discretionary manager unless it has taken reasonable steps to enable the private customer to understand the nature of the risks involved . |
| 6 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 7 | It took hundreds of millions of years to evolve these abilities , longer , perhaps , than it has taken human beings to evolve from fish . |
| 8 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 9 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 10 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 11 | It had taken many years to achieve the control she had acquired over her conscious mind . |
| 12 | However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma . |
| 13 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 14 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 15 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 16 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
| 17 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 18 | Using the old gantries , it had taken 20 years to paint the centre span . |
| 19 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 20 | It had taken some time to reach a decision , but eventually they had come across to check their bonds were in place , and then had gone off . |
| 21 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |