Example sentences of "it would have taken a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 2 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 3 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 4 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
| 5 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
| 6 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |
| 7 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 8 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 9 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 10 | Well , it would have taken a lot of investment . |