Example sentences of "it [adv] take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public ownership of development land puts control of our scarcest resource in the hands of the community , and enables it thereby to take an overall perspective . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 4 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |
| 7 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 8 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 9 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 10 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 11 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 12 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 13 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 14 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 15 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 16 | Still , it only takes a few bars of Kondrashin ( the work 's first interpreter ) to feel what the music is really driving at — this is part of a two-disc set with the first three symphonies on Le Chant du Monde . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 20 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 24 | It just takes an ingenious mind and an ability to do crosswords and you can prove anything with words . |
| 25 | The first term is always an unsettling time , and it generally takes a few weeks before students become familiar with each other , and work together effectively . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His eighth minute back-pass fell fatally short of the courageous Stephen Pears in the Middlesbrough goal , but it still took an exceptional finish from Rosenthal to find the net from an awkward angle . |