Example sentences of "and it take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I help her to do this , and it takes no time at all . |
| 2 | Through subsidies the state has established a vast ‘ social salary ’ to make life easier for workers and it takes a pride in the extensiveness of the welfare system that has developed from this . |
| 3 | And it takes a man and a women to produce a child . |
| 4 | Something here is not quite as it should be , and it takes a while to work out exactly what it is … |
| 5 | This is called ‘ image ’ back-up , and it takes a while . |
| 6 | The ability to select propitious characters in Chinese is a fine art and it takes a student of great learning to transpose an English name into Chinese syllables which convey beauty both in the pictogram character and in meaning , and yet bear some semblance in sound to the original name . |
| 7 | We carve moulds in wood and it takes a craftsman with a spokes have a day to do each one . |
| 8 | And it takes a lot to light up the eyes of a man dying of tuberculosis . |
| 9 | If you are sitting in a very large house on your own , which is draining away your resources because it still has mortgage payments to be met and it takes a lot of money to heat and light every year , you must seriously consider cashing in on your assets by moving to a smaller house that eliminates your mortgage and cuts down on running costs , or by taking out an annuity on your house . |
| 10 | Erm I know it 's easier said than done sometimes but er it has to be your decision because even if you went ahead and were confirmed , we were tal talking about the idea of sometimes parents bring pressure on them on you to go ahead and do it and be confirmed , erm when perhaps you 're not do n't feel ready for it and it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say No I 'm not ready . |
| 11 | The handcuffs are cumbersome , perhaps little used , and it takes an askari a long time to adjust them to Tepilit 's thin wrists . |
| 12 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 13 | It does n't hurt because it 's pulled off so quickly , and when we pull it off , we put our finger straight over the area and it takes the sting away . |
| 14 | And it takes the stains out of no , can it not get paint stains ? |
| 15 | As a result Taos is object-oriented at a very fine level and it takes the idea of dynamic linking to its logical conclusion . |
| 16 | As a result Taos is object-oriented at a very fine level and it takes the idea of dynamic linking to its logical conclusion . |
| 17 | Enough and it takes the pain away , too much and you feel dopey . |
| 18 | When you believe that you are guilty of all the pain caused by your own pregnancy , birth and subsequent existence , then the burden really does bend your back , and it takes the labours of Hercules to try and straighten it . |
| 19 | It 's called FAXgrabber and it takes the fax and converts it into text which can be edited by any word-processor without the need for re-typing . |
| 20 | He looked like the devil incarnate as he stood there glaring at her , and it took every scrap of courage and pride Fran possessed to stand and face him . |
| 21 | It was 35 minutes before the visitors threatened and it took a reflex save from Mark Morris to deny Graham Alexander after a great run and cross by Tony Daws . |
| 22 | The first attempt on the buttress was delayed for two days because of bad weather , and it took a total of five days to climb the feature , which included a band of loose rock at the base , and reconnoitre the south ridge to the start of a large rock pillar at about 5,900 metres . |
| 23 | They set off in November 1923 and it took a year to set up the expedition . |
| 24 | And it took a year for him to get it back . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's why there were a couple of early hiccups and it took a while to settle in . |
| 26 | It was out in the wilds somewhere and it took a while to find him . |
| 27 | This is because MouseMan Cordless has its roller ball sited further forward , virtually under one 's forefinger and it took a bit of time getting used to , as did a small but perceptible response lag . |
| 28 | A Protestant mob was so incensed by what he said that they wrecked the Irish quarter , breaking in the fronts of houses and knocking down their roofs , and it took a battalion of troops to restore order . |
| 29 | The sand , shingle and shells were a prehistoric beach , preserved somehow over millions of years — and it took a breakdown for me to discover it . |
| 30 | That 's what I did when I started my furniture business , building it up gradually from a crude workshop and it took a hell of a long time . |