Example sentences of "[conj] it take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children will enjoy seeing the chaos as Henry leads all the young animals out into the forest , where it takes the farmer a long time to catch them . |
| 2 | Huddersfield Town .... 3 Nottingham Forest .... 3 ( aet ; score at 90 minutes 3-3 ; Forest win on away goals ) NOTTINGHAM FOREST , the Littlewoods Cup holders , stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road , where it took the League 's away goals regulations to defeat the otherwise indomitable spirit of Huddersfield in a stirring tie . |
| 3 | Although it took a while and I crashed a couple of times , once I even knocked a dam down with a kite . |
| 4 | Nicky Summerbee claimed goal number 3 , although it took a couple of deflections on the way win . |
| 5 | White spirit is far better — it 's safe on all finishes and materials , metal and fabric , and , although it takes a while to dry , it leaves no deposits . |
| 6 | And although it takes a while to recover from such fear , for most of us at least , it does eventually subside . |
| 7 | As a final point it is worth reiterating that , although it takes a lot of time and intellectual effort to derive an acceptable information model using the MINSE approach , the model is independent of the actual form that the information takes in the real situation , and will remain valid until such time as the role of the organisation undergoes a fundamental change . |
| 8 | The way I see it , although it takes a lot to laugh , it takes a train to cry . |
| 9 | ‘ Think how it wakes the seeds ’ , this itself suggests that the force in question is not God and is indifferent to whether the man lives or dies as although it takes the effort to wake the seeds and the earth it can not wake ‘ sides full-nerved — still warm ’ . |
| 10 | The difference was that it took a year before Chamberlain 's words came back to haunt him . |
| 11 | Roman enquired , so quietly that it took a moment before his meaning sank in . |
| 12 | The to infinitive after and then , on the other hand , creates the impression of a delayed reaction ; it suggests that it took a moment 's reflection for the person to realize the import of what he had seen , this realization being what triggered his sudden cry . |
| 13 | It is a strange reflection on the lack of modernity in British politics that it took a pillar of the old establishment to tell them they ca n't have both . |
| 14 | It worked out electronically that it took a fish finger less time to defrost than a leg of lamb , and when your designer-label , calorie-counted tagliatelle was ready for eating , it told you so with five bleeps rather than the paltry three offered by the cheaper models . |
| 15 | She sat with her back against the log and busily set about finding the Thermos of water with hands that shook so much that it took every ounce of her control not to spill a drop of the precious liquid as she raised the cup to her lips . |
| 16 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that it took the emergency services an hour to reach the injured , and that another hour went past before the 125 was able to move off ? |
| 17 | Theodora 's tone was so gentle , so unemphatic , almost deferential — the tone of a deacon of four years ' experience to a senior cleric of thirty years — that it took the edge off her words . |
| 18 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
| 19 | Wildavsky ( 1969 ) supports this view by pointing out that it took the Rand Corporation over five years to develop the pilot system adopted in the US Department of Defense . |
| 20 | Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government . |
| 21 | Mary pointed out that it takes a while to become objective and to look at yourself without flinching . |
| 22 | so did the automatic thing which proves that it takes a bit of time and patience before you 've achieved this |
| 23 | Then when I told him that it takes a man to make a man , he hit me right across the face . |
| 24 | If the hon. Gentleman just thinks about what he is saying , he will realise that it takes a Government one or two years to bring the economy round . |
| 25 | The best thing about publishing is that it takes a book away from you and kills it . |
| 26 | And child care is the key to dependency , for the very simple reason that it takes a lot of time and is unpaid ’ . |
| 27 | And childcare is the key to dependency , for the very simple reason that it takes a lot of time and is unpaid . |
| 28 | I was deeply impressed at your delicious meal , for I know that it takes a lot of thought and time to put something together so excellently ( at least , I know about the thought + time ! ) . |
| 29 | There is no reason why computers should n't be natural and friendly , it 's just that it takes a lot more memory in the computer to have all the complex rules of an ordinary language , and also it 's much harder to write the programs that tell the computer how to understand a natural language . |
| 30 | Is n't it terrible that it takes a war ! |