Example sentences of "it took a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a rare combination of management failure , over-ambition and bad luck to bring such a business to its knees . |
| 2 | From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong . |
| 3 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 4 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 5 | It took a new generation of drama advisers to attempt to bring it back again . |
| 6 | It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together . |
| 7 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 8 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 9 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 10 | It took a great deal of effort not to wriggle about as much as I normally did , but I feared him panicking more than the physical discomfort . |
| 11 | It took a great deal of acting skill not to show her vast irritation . |
| 12 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
| 13 | It took a great deal of effort to resist adding the word ‘ yet ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It took a great deal of courage for one man to stand up to the tobacco industry . |
| 15 | Birdie Mac in the sweet shop told people that it took a great amount of faith these days to realise that God was fair-minded . |
| 16 | It took a bold decision of the Court of Appeal in Hanning v. Maitland ( No. 2 ) to admit the error of the earlier interpretation and relax the application of the conditions . |
| 17 | First of all it 's a , it 's a most astonishing theoretical phenomenon that this should happen , and in fact it took a whole half of century later before an explanation could be found as to what , what was happening . |
| 18 | It took a peculiar collection of qualities to catch his mental eye . |
| 19 | However , when there was a conflict it appears that both interpretations were considered , and that it took a considerable amount of time to resolve the conflict . |
| 20 | I 'm sorry we could n't do it the day you arrived , but it took a little bit of organizing . " |
| 21 | It took a little bit of deft footwork to satisfy themselves that the first firm would not object to Rank using ‘ Carry On ’ in the title . |
| 22 | But of course it took a little bit of time , an hour or so , and th , the woman came round again , they said ca n't do you today |