Example sentences of "[pers pn] takes [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It takes either a flat battery ( MN1203 ) , three AA batteries ( MN1500 ) with a round cell adaptor E06 , or a Petzl E55 rechargeable battery . |
2 | While the first group of dogs feeds — it takes just a few seconds for them to finish the bowls , right down to the lick clean — I huff on my fingers , more hopefully than knowingly . |
3 | It takes just a few seconds to alter CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to make these changes . |
4 | It takes just a few seconds , but it gives horses better security for life . |
5 | On the tips it takes just a few years . |
6 | For most materials — like iron and stone — it takes only a tiny fraction of a calorie to raise the temperature by one degree C. |
7 | It takes only a small leap of imagination to think of much wider applications , from artificial wetlands full of bird-life designed to remove agricultural phosphates from Loch Leven 's influent streams , perhaps , to plant-filled lagoons created to transform fish farm effluents into natural water gardens . |
8 | It takes only a few minutes . |
9 | If the skin is healthy , it takes only a few minutes for the molecules to be absorbed ; much longer if the skin is congested or if there is much subcutaneous fat . |
10 | It takes only a few minutes down to the shore , and I stop by the pier where one or two herring gulls are sitting rather listlessly , and a couple of hooded crows are poking about on the beach . |
11 | It takes only a few minutes to carry out this simple exercise , but it will greatly improve your ability to recognise genuinely lost coins when your search head passes over them . |
12 | Very little glass is wholly untouched from the time it is drawn or blown from the melt , and it takes only the lightest contact to create an elaborate crack pattern . |
13 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |
14 | Indeed , it takes quite a wise person to be sufficiently aware that they have a problem to seek professional help . |
15 | Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework . |