Example sentences of "[verb] it take [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 7 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 8 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 9 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 10 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I suppose it takes all sorts to make a world . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | , 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | health , for example , may be as much a demand-side as a supply-side factor through social pressures on those who suffer it to take early retirement at a time of general contraction . |
| 21 | How long did it take one man . |
| 22 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 23 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 24 | But why , and the people of this district have a legitimate right to ask , why did it take three people to represent in Czechoslovakia ? |
| 25 | I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across . |
| 26 | The AIF expects it to take 68 months to complete st Lucie 2 in Florida , which is due to be commissioned this year . |
| 27 | Sink It took two people 90 minutes to wash up , dry , clean sink and draining board and put the dishes away . |
| 28 | Mark 's acceptance at Oxford proves it takes different strokes , different brush strokes that is , to move the world . |
| 29 | I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ? |
| 30 | Among those offering concrete commitments were National Westminster Bank , which said it took environmental issues into account when considering loan requests [ see ED 58 ] , and the Austin Reed clothing company , which claims to encourage its suppliers to meet environmental standards . |