Example sentences of "[verb] it take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 2 | This involves a different type of responsibility as well , and to accept it takes real courage . |
| 3 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 4 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 5 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 6 | And he says it took all his strength to make the journey from church to job centre . |
| 7 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
| 8 | Bremel says it takes 6,000 lactating mice to match a cow 's output . |
| 9 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 10 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 11 | living on her own , so he assumed it take three and a half hours did the boss . |
| 12 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 13 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 14 | The people who conceived this film and the people who applaud it take certain masochistic fascination in casting themselves as the martyrs , poor innocents slaughtered by barbarians . ’ |
| 15 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 16 | AT the magistrates court it took more than an hour to read out all the charges . |
| 17 | But as it is as you say you know it took five minutes before it all happened in I find this very do n't you ? |
| 18 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 19 | It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook . |
| 20 | So basically all they 're saying it takes thirty two hours to do one egg . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I suppose it takes all sorts to make a world . ’ |
| 22 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 23 | , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd . |
| 24 | We often find it takes three or four years before a youth is used to a regular life once more . |
| 25 | I always feel it takes some of the magic away if you put things up too early . |
| 26 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 27 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 28 | It 's a trick but it helps it took all the |
| 29 | Says one inmate : ’ I do n't think it takes much to become a prison officer . |
| 30 | From 1984 the anti-nuclear policy of the then newly elected Labour Government in New Zealand led it to take successive steps which the United States regarded as contrary to its obligations under the Pacific Security Treaty . |