Example sentences of "it [verb] [not/n't] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report on the shooting was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service , but it decided not to take any action against Miss Hobson . |
| 2 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 3 | But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny . |
| 4 | But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity . |
| 5 | My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’ |
| 6 | Overall the 1986 Act made many detailed changes , it extended and rationalized means tests , but it did not take social security in the radical new direction that ‘ negative income tax ’ or ‘ social dividend ’ advocates were suggesting . |
| 7 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 8 | It did n't take much anaesthetic to render the exhausted patient unconscious , and , as Sophie made the first incision , she put aside her dislike of being critically watched by her professional rival and concentrated on her life-saving task . |
| 9 | But it seemed the doctor could persuade Sarah to do anything , for it did n't take much argument to convince her that it was wrong to be ungracious . |
| 10 | It did n't take much thinking about . |
| 11 | It did n't take much imagination to supply another word in place of ‘ protegée ’ . |
| 12 | There was quite a run on the unfashionable theatre 's box office but it did n't take old Fred by surprise . |
| 13 | But it does not take legal rights seriously . |
| 14 | It does not take much imagination to realise the very serious risks if , for instance , a modern weed-killer solution contaminated drinking water supplies . |
| 15 | It does not take much imagination to see these changes as a reflection of Britain 's growing military self-assertiveness , and specifically of her claim to Neptune 's trident and rule of the sea . |
| 16 | Appendages in the ‘ head ’ region often include powerful claws , and it does not take much imagination to conclude that these eurypterids were among the fiercest predators of their day . |
| 17 | It does not take much imagination to appreciate that maintaining a safe environment in high latitudes and high altitudes with the long months of snow , ice and subzero temperatures will differ from maintaining a safe environment in the humid heat of a tropical forest . |
| 18 | It does not take much imagination to understand the depth of grief that the parents feel at the loss of their baby . |
| 19 | In a more commonplace example , it does not take much imagination to see how old people may see their contribution to society as substantially diminished and their dependence increased , at a time when technological advances present an older generation with a succession of mysteries related to daily living . |
| 20 | It does not take much imagination to realise the bad impression that can be created by a person who has greasy unkempt hair , unclean or unpressed clothes , laddered stockings or tights , dirty down-at-the-heel shoes , chewed or dirty fingernails or unfortunately halitosis ( bad breath ) or body odour . |
| 21 | It does not take much imagination to conjure up the kinds of arguments that EDF will introduce should it wish to inhibit serious competition to itself . |
| 22 | It does not take much imagination to understand the effect of a Tornado flying at 250 knots and at 250 ft , on a cavalcade of 200 horses on top of the Border hills . |
| 23 | To make the book come even more to life , the author introduces hypothetical characters , the Sportsman , the Visitor and the Engineer , and it does not take much imagination to think of their behaviour in driving or road design . |
| 24 | The project has been drawn some criticism , however , from those who argue that it does not take sufficient account of the interests of local tribal people . |
| 25 | So it 's a And it does n't take all day . |
| 26 | ‘ It does n't take much expertise to know that . ’ |
| 27 | However , with recorders down to less than £8,000 it does n't take much arithmetic to work out that a company turning over 2,000 slides a year will come close to being better off with its own camera . |
| 28 | It does n't take much imagination to realise the very serious risks if , for instance , a modern week-killer solution contaminated drinking water supplies . |
| 29 | ‘ When the two star-crossed lovers next met , someone , it does n't take much imagination to guess who , had made sure that Larry Marsh suspected something was wrong . |