Example sentences of "[coord] it take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 2 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 3 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 4 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 5 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 10 | and it takes these batteries and everything and she says I 'll pick them up eleven cock , o'clock on Friday |
| 11 | The points of choice have to be put to other people and it takes patient consultation before everyone can agree about the management plan for a school in which social , academic , moral and community developments all have their place . |
| 12 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 13 | All these mistakes are only too easy to make , and it takes constant effort to keep oneself up to the mark . |
| 14 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 17 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 21 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 22 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 23 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 24 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 25 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 26 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |