Example sentences of "[coord] it take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 2 | Leopards still die for their skins and it takes five to seven leopards to provide the material for one fur coat ! |
| 3 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 4 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 5 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 6 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 7 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 8 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 9 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 10 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 11 | I collect my things and pack , and it takes less than a minute . |
| 12 | and it takes these batteries and everything and she says I 'll pick them up eleven cock , o'clock on Friday |
| 13 | The points of choice have to be put to other people and it takes patient consultation before everyone can agree about the management plan for a school in which social , academic , moral and community developments all have their place . |
| 14 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 15 | All these mistakes are only too easy to make , and it takes constant effort to keep oneself up to the mark . |
| 16 | And it take twenty four hours to go round once . |
| 17 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 18 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 20 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 21 | She felt the puff of his breath on her ear , and it took all the determination she possessed not to turn round . |
| 22 | During the following days Luke 's energy for work seemed boundless , and it took all of Merrill 's concentration to keep abreast of him . |
| 23 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 24 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 25 | Cornflower-blue eyes bored into her own and it took all the willpower she possessed not to look away . |
| 26 | And it took all this time to get here . |
| 27 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 28 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 29 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 30 | Sussex smugglers traded in luxury goods , particularly wine and tea , essential to the maintenance of genteel civility and it took rare , almost obsessive , members of the landed hierarchy to take a consistently firm line against it . |