Example sentences of "[adv] that it take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interlaced displays scan alternate lines , so that it takes two complete passes to display every line on-screen . |
| 2 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 3 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 4 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 5 | For once , I thought before speaking , and so was able to refrain from remarking tritely that it took two to make a marriage . |
| 6 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 7 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 8 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |