Example sentences of "[conj] it took [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our survey rates Shell most highly for its management quality , where it took first place ( see table 3 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 17 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 18 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 19 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 20 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 21 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 22 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 23 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 24 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 25 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 26 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 27 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 28 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 29 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 30 | Her imperial era was over , though it took another decade and two major anti-terrorist campaigns in Borneo and Aden to complete the transition . |