Example sentences of "[vb mod] take more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young man put two half crowns and two pennies on the counter , saying as he did so , ‘ We 'll take more than the sweets away with us tonight . |
| 2 | ‘ I think it 'd take more than a lot of nomes and some string to fly it , anyway . ’ |
| 3 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 4 | There could be a need to check forensic evidence , for example , or to prevent a suspect absconding , or to travel to a far-away police station where the investigation was being conducted , and any of these could take more than a day . |
| 5 | Today so few theatregoers travel by bus that it would take more than a strike of the red giants to kill anything on stage . |
| 6 | ‘ In places this size , you come away saying it would take more than a day to see them , ’ said Mr Craig . |
| 7 | ‘ It would take more than a ring to get me into your bed , ’ she retorted furiously . |
| 8 | Add the life and colour of cities such as New York , Washington , San Francisco and Vancouver , and this is a land it would take more than a lifetime to truly discover . |
| 9 | ‘ The BNP contends that it will take more than a Race Equality Council to smooth over the cracks of the fragmenting edifice that is the multi-racial society . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The BNP contends it will take more than a Race Equality Council to smooth over the cracks of the fragmenting edifice that is the multi-racial society . ’ |
| 11 | Ferguson now sports a tuft of facial hair around his lips and chin , permitted him by the Tannadice tablets of stone , but it will take more than a beard to signify maturity . |
| 12 | It will take more than a streak of dogged determination to see it through . |
| 13 | It will take more than the ratification of the treaty to restore Britain 's European credentials . |
| 14 | It could well be that it will take more than the measures that the Government have introduced to strip the glamour from smoking , notwithstanding the 115,000 smoking-related deaths per year in Britain alone . |
| 15 | It will take more than the prospect of weight savings to prompt them to abandon this safe method . |
| 16 | TOO MUCH SUPPLY , TOO LITTLE DEMAND It will take more than an upturn to cheer the developers up — there will be little for them to do until tenants move into the large areas of commercial space that have yet to be let |