Example sentences of "[conj] it take [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 3 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 4 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Such was the official secrecy , or confusion , that it took several weeks to confirm that no RCM boys were among the casualties . |
| 12 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 13 | Alright , now if we look at the , the rural instead of the urban wage rate , right , up here alright , now let's just say that it takes that amount of time before this individual gets a job in the urban area , alright , now if we discount alright the erm , the rural , the urban wages right , that 's all this |
| 14 | I was questioned about this in recent years when I visited the Camp during one of my lecture rounds to the ATC in the Highlands , but I only add this yarn to illustrate that it takes all kinds to make any air force station , and I am sure our childrens ' children will be told and the tale will no doubt be embroidered to suit the occasion . |
| 15 | Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now . |
| 16 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 17 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 22 | and it takes these batteries and everything and she says I 'll pick them up eleven cock , o'clock on Friday |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 26 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 27 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 28 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 29 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 30 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |