Example sentences of "takes [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Inquiries must continue , however , to discover if Trevor Graham , a chartered surveyor , takes rural walks . |
2 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
3 | Yeah , but he said he 'd tell us he takes eleven tablets a day |
4 | If the average golf swing takes 1.5 seconds , then a score of 80 means that 120 seconds were spent on the physical act of swinging . |
5 | The college takes 500 pupils from across the world and decided to call in debt collectors as a last resort . |
6 | Acceleration to 60mph takes 9.2 seconds for the turbo and 11.3 seconds for the non-turbo , which has a top speed of 111mph . |
7 | In light of this , anybody who takes strange tablets should observe certain basic precautions . |
8 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
9 | THE production of an average size family car gobbles up 3,000 litres of water while a pint of beer takes eight pints of water . |
10 | Well cycling takes eight minutes . |
11 | So one gang takes eight hours . |
12 | CAN anyone explain why a mail-order figurine takes eight days to arrive from Marseilles in France , but when I order a similar item from Canterbury — just 15 miles up the A2 from here — they advise me to allow 28 days for delivery . |
13 | What takes eight months to organise , lasts eight days and takes Bristol and the South West by storm ? |
14 | Rather than store a bitmap of each character at every size it might be required , something that takes prodigious amounts of memory or disk storage , they used a single digital outline of the character and generated the required bitmap on demand . |
15 | Frequent fast trains run from London/Charing Cross , and the journey takes 75 minutes . |
16 | The table takes 70 hours to make . |
17 | The direct way takes shattered cracks straight up the wall ahead , tending R to a good ledge on crest in 35m . |
18 | which takes 522 pages to outline for the novice how to modify behaviour and when it 's not likely to work perfectly . |
19 | The British plant takes 53 hours to turn out each car , the Spanish factory 30 hours . |
20 | Mark 's acceptance at Oxford proves it takes different strokes , different brush strokes that is , to move the world . |
21 | The movement takes different forms across the world but its common understanding is built upon a social model of health ( 6 ) . |
22 | He runs day classes and in the summer he takes residential students . |
23 | If a university takes further students , as nearly all have , they receive only the student fee , which is between £800 and £2500 less . |
24 | It takes forty minutes to walk from Dhang station to the farm along a road which starts as a stony track then turns to mud . |
25 | However , her RSI could become a recurring problem unless she takes careful precautions . |
26 | Anthony should be higher cos he takes free kicks . |
27 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
28 | Bonington also takes repeated swipes at the 19th century climbing establishment as represented by the Alpine Club , glossing over in the process the AC 's extraordinary and valuable role in the exploration not only of the Alps but the greater ranges . |
29 | The whole thing takes eight-ten minutes . |
30 | In his refreshing book Mr Veseth looks at Victorian Britain , which improved on Florence 's commercial ideas , particularly public debt , and also went into decline ; and at present-day America , which is deeply in debt but might , he argues , avoid decline if it takes brave decisions . |