Example sentences of "it [adv] take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the ongoing maintenance requirements which will be most scrutinised by the environmental health officer , and in many cases , it only takes a dirty grease filter system dripping onto the food cooking surfaces to alert the authorities . |
| 2 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 3 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 4 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 5 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |
| 6 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 7 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 8 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 9 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 10 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe everyone has innate creativity ’ she confided in me , ‘ but with some it just takes a little bit of coaxing before it will surface ’ . |
| 12 | It usually takes a great deal longer than is originally planned and hence , to a lesser degree in most cases , a larger amount of resources . |
| 13 | Due to the large spread ( i.e. difference between buying and selling prices ) , it usually takes a substantial rise to enable investors to sell out at a profit . |
| 14 | One day there will be a serious industrial accident ; there are occasional near misses and worse ; but it usually takes a good measure of folly , inattention and misfortune to overwhelm good plant and a safe system . |
| 15 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 16 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 17 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 18 | The only problem is that it now takes a baffling turn . |
| 19 | But does it really take a trained critic to warn viewers of what is so plainly , desperately obvious ? |
| 20 | In a big house it often takes a long time for everyone to find ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 21 | Also the fragility of the grammar — there are a number of features that are not covered by the grammar and it often takes a long time to reject the sentence . |
| 22 | As the Foreign Secretary pointed out this afternoon , it increasingly takes a co-ordinated view of foreign policy issues . |
| 23 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 24 | It then took a short break . |
| 25 | It then takes a major blow to fracture it . |
| 26 | Erm but there again , riveting was never easy , so it it maybe took a wee bit of the the hard work out it . |
| 27 | It therefore took a southerly route across the prairie provinces of the Dominion . |