Example sentences of "it [vb mod] take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may take five minutes of real time to play the match . |
| 2 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 3 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 4 | In this way it is possible to re-start the routine that was enjoyed previously , although it may take some days of patience to break the new habit . |
| 5 | ‘ The yacht is a rather slow model of course , so it may take some time for you to die . ’ |
| 6 | Bear in mind that it may take some time for the police to arrive . |
| 7 | It may take some time before a beginner experiences it , but performance will not become efficient until she does . |
| 8 | It should take 23 weeks for all 23 goals to be accomplished . |
| 9 | George Romanes , the evolutionist , physiologist and early comparative psychologist , declared in 1887 that ‘ we must look the fact in the face … it must take many centuries for heredity to produce the missing five ounces of the female brain ’ . |
| 10 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I thought it might take some while for the outside world to learn of . |
| 12 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
| 13 | It 'll take five weeks for the shipment to get to Japan . |
| 14 | The half life of the parietal cell is 23 days in rats and presumably much longer in man and therefore it could take many months for resoluion of an increased parietal cell mass . |
| 15 | But erm it could take that length of time . |
| 16 | A spokesman for Pilkington , the major glass manufacturer , said yesterday that it could take several weeks for new windows to be installed . |
| 17 | Similarly , in 1979–80 , it used to take 13.2 hours for a man to produce a ton of steel . |
| 18 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 19 | No doubt the threat of national paralysis seemed much worse than it was : after all it would take many weeks for the full effects of a national strike to have an impact . |
| 20 | Clearly at a basic level if you just gave someone a board and lake to practise on , apart from being dangerous it would take many months of frustration for them to work out what to do . |
| 21 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 22 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 23 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 24 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 25 | The Libyan government announced that it would take reciprocal action against any countries expelling Libyan diplomats . |
| 26 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 27 | It would take some time for the news to get around . |
| 28 | I think the the the B W the Barton Willmore analysis appears to overlook the fact , and again Mr Jewitt referred to this when he referred to Easingwold , that settlement evolves over time , and and nobody seems to be addressing the point that that fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred , two thousand houses , however many it is , wo n't appear over night , erm er th it would take some time for that to be to be realized erm and as part of that there 's no clear view as to when the services will come along that are that are necessary to give that community the balance it it said it requires , erm , Mr Timothy from Wood Fram Frampton referred I think to a figure of twelve fifty dwellings for a viable new settlement , and there were plenty ex of of examples , quote , erm that one could look at to see that was the case , erm I I 'd be interested to know where those examples are an and what there make up erm is . |
| 29 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 30 | It would take several minutes at least to get back to the Bridge . |