Example sentences of "[conj] it take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second technique is deconcentration — although functions may be departmentalised in a single central government department , it may nevertheless be desirable for administration to be dispersed from the geographical centre and into the regions and localities where it takes actual effect ‘ on the ground ’ . |
| 2 | Our survey rates Shell most highly for its management quality , where it took first place ( see table 3 ) . |
| 3 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 4 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 5 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 6 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 7 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 8 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 9 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 10 | Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt . |
| 11 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 12 | For once , I thought before speaking , and so was able to refrain from remarking tritely that it took two to make a marriage . |
| 13 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 14 | Do you know that it took all my self-control not to throttle that dim-witted boy ? ’ |
| 15 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 16 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 17 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 18 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 19 | But he will have been worried that it took four fine saves from John Lukic to keep City out . |
| 20 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 21 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 22 | The voice was so absent and tired that it took some of the chill from the words . |
| 23 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 24 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 25 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 26 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 27 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 28 | Such was the official secrecy , or confusion , that it took several weeks to confirm that no RCM boys were among the casualties . |
| 29 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 30 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |