Example sentences of "it [vb -s] n't take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll make a chicken salad when we get back — it does n't take a minute … ’ |
| 2 | It does n't take a degree in surveying to spot daylight between tiles , damp marks or old wiring . |
| 3 | It does n't take a brain box to weigh that up — it actually means that 47 people lost their jobs . |
| 4 | It Does n't Take A Hero , by Gen Norman Schwarzkopf ( Bantam ) . |
| 5 | Norman Schwarzkopf It Does n't Take a Hero ( Bantam ) |
| 6 | But it did n't take Jefferson long to find enough money to set up a factory to make golf clubs , and it does n't take a lot of imagination to guess who provided the money . ’ |
| 7 | It does n't take a doctorate in high finance to notice when a group of companies regularly gobbles up other companies , regardless of their line of business , efficiently dismantles them , and sells off any bits worth selling off , at a healthy profit ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It does n't take a psychologist to see that it 's you who 's running . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It does n't take a rocket scientist to work out that doubling productivity , and therefore halving the number of wells we have to drill , will greatly improve the economics of our activities in Colombia . ’ |
| 10 | It does n't take a BSc to work it out , especially for a chunky machine where the number of rows given is often very few . |
| 11 | ‘ If every dog is marked at birth and registered , the kind of person who wants to throw out a dog onto a motorway will seek to remove the identifying mark — it does n't take a moment with a Stanley knife to remove an ear tattoo , or to use a drop of acid to burn off a brand . |
| 12 | When you observe leaf-roll , it does n't take a moment to pinch the leaf firmly between finger and thumb or , better still , to pick it off and burn it . |
| 13 | Its least troublesome border is the one with Finland ( though it does n't take a Clausewitz to spot that Finland leads nowhere much , while Poland is the corridor to Germany ) . |
| 14 | But it does n't take a crystal ball to figure out the diminishing returns involved in planning programmes around such disposable performers . |