Example sentences of "it [verb] taken [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its parallel body , the Emerging Issues Task Force , is notable for the way in which it has taken anticipatory action in time to head off expected abuses . |
| 2 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
| 3 | It has taken 10 years for Robert and John Woodward , two brothers in the village of Wotton-under-Edge , to piece together replicas of the 1,500,000 coloured clay tesserae of the mosaic , using nearly 300 photographs of the original . |
| 4 | Lawrence added : ‘ We have played five games against First Division sides this season and it has taken extra time in the fifth for us to be defeated . |
| 5 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 6 | It has taken real courage for the 26-year-old Good 'ol Boy from Dardanelle , Arkansas , to admit his alcohol dependency to the world , turn his back on tournament golf for now and reach for help instead of his enormous metal driver . |
| 7 | But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows . |
| 8 | It has taken many years for these professionals to gain recognition and acceptance . |
| 9 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 10 | Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field . |
| 11 | Cray Research Inc , which says its scaled down C90s ( see front ) start at $3.25m , reports that it has taken five orders for the smaller systems and is in discussions with more than a dozen other prospects ; an eight-processor version C98 will be leased to the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the fourth quarter ; the model starts at some $12m . |
| 12 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its supercomputer family by the second half of 1994 . |
| 13 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its super computer family by the second half of 1994 . |
| 14 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 15 | It has taken several years of animated discussions among the members and their respective lawyers to arrive at these terms and conditions , which are also intended to be in line with the code of conduct adopted last year by the European federation of art dealers , FIDOAO ( Federation Internationale des Diffuseurs d'Oeuvres d'Art Originales ) . |
| 16 | It has taken several months of cajoling to persuade the enigmatic political advisor Philip Gould to give an interview . |
| 17 | Marxist feminists are quick to point to the essentialism of much of radical feminism , and argue that while women 's oppression is almost universal , it has taken different forms in different societies . |
| 18 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |
| 19 | It would n't have taken as Mr has pointed out , any cognizance of the fact that there 's difference for different times of the day , nor would it have taken any account of the fact that people would perceive the travel times and travel costs in different ways . |
| 20 | It had taken 10 years for the states definitely to decide where they stood on the question of integration or association . |
| 21 | It had taken small effort for the cop to lead her on . |
| 22 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 23 | It had taken six years of incredibly hard work , masses of courage and a measure of despair , but she 'd done it ! |
| 24 | It had taken twenty-two years of hell to realise that their war was nothing to do with her , and that peacemakers got torn to pieces . |
| 25 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 26 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 27 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 28 | It had taken three days for the anarchy of two thousand Zaïrois to transform themselves into an organised travelling market . |
| 29 | And it 's taken that length of time to break down the seventy or eighty year barriers that are in existence between workers and management . |