Example sentences of "it have take [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has to take up private time — and at home .
2 It has taken nearly nine months to finalise all the accounts and each venture takes about six months to plan .
3 It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility .
4 What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated .
5 With our new store opening programme running to around 20 locations a year , it has taken relatively little time for the idea of the supermarket bakery not just to gain credence , but to become remarkably successful .
6 This , together with a piece by Mozart 's rival Salieri , was given in the orangery at the Schönbrunn palace on 7 February : it had taken just two weeks to write .
7 It was now about 2157 , and although it had taken just three minutes to use Conquest for the rescue , the transfer to the small boat and handling her while picking up the survivor had required seamanship of a high order .
8 When Stop Hinkley Expansion members had conducted a test run in 1957 to see just how quickly every house within the Hinkley Point evacuation zone could be visited ( as part of a campaign for sirens to be installed ) it had taken over two hours .
9 His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed .
10 It had taken about twenty seconds .
11 Normally , he said , it was not difficult to revive babies who suffered collapses , but it had taken quite some time to get signs of life from Liam .
12 The CPV had made a number of errors in the past ; it had taken too much time setting forth the initial stage of the transitional period to socialism and had made " many mistakes " in reforming prices , wages and money and in ideological and organizational tasks .
13 From foundations to roof it had taken only five months to reach this stage of construction .
14 Jerry informed me later , tearfully , that it had taken almost twenty minutes .
15 You see how beautifully evenly it 's taken up that ink .
16 Well I think that 's a good way of putting it , absolutely , I mean er As as I say but it it is erm I think it 's been a long process and to get I mean it 's taken nearly two years since the
17 and it 's taken about three weeks to get hold of it so I 'm going to see if it 's ready .
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