Example sentences of "it would have take [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home .
2 It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous .
3 It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer .
4 He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off .
5 It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough .
6 Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did .
7 It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place .
8 In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart .
9 But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria .
10 Well , it would have taken a lot of investment .
11 It would have taken the gilt off the gingerbread ’ , she said .
12 those of Lord Lowry ] been brought to the attention of the other division it would have taken the view that we do today .
13 It would have taken an army to shift the travellers once they got to Castlemorton .
14 Over the years brambles had spread in all directions and had wound round the barbed wire , so it would have taken an axe or some other sharp tool to have gained entry , one certainly could n't have reached the top of the stairway at all .
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