Example sentences of "it [verb] take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It does n't matter who you are , it has to take that period of time . |
2 | Its parallel body , the Emerging Issues Task Force , is notable for the way in which it has taken anticipatory action in time to head off expected abuses . |
3 | Lawrence added : ‘ We have played five games against First Division sides this season and it has taken extra time in the fifth for us to be defeated . |
4 | It has taken real courage for the 26-year-old Good 'ol Boy from Dardanelle , Arkansas , to admit his alcohol dependency to the world , turn his back on tournament golf for now and reach for help instead of his enormous metal driver . |
5 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
6 | Does it have to take another oil disaster like the Braer tanker , before Britain acts ? |
7 | It would n't have taken as Mr has pointed out , any cognizance of the fact that there 's difference for different times of the day , nor would it have taken any account of the fact that people would perceive the travel times and travel costs in different ways . |
8 | In practical terms it means taking that course of action which most reliably will avoid the possibility of criticism by their superiors . |
9 | However , it did take some time for the mother church to readjust after this second labour and birth . |
10 | But it did take some time . |
11 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
12 | It had taken small effort for the cop to lead her on . |
13 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
14 | It had taken six telephone calls and much going to and fro before Peter and Susie finally arrived for their first counselling appointment . |
15 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
16 | It had taken some time to reach a decision , but eventually they had come across to check their bonds were in place , and then had gone off . |
17 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
18 | Although the eigenproblem to be solved at each step is vastly less time-consuming and expensive than direct methods applied to the full system , yet it does take much time . |
19 | However , it does take more effort to push or pull a garden cart , and it can be more difficult to manoeuvre than single wheeled barrows . |
20 | Yeah , I think , I I sympathise on what the er , new opposition , because I think , it does take some time to particularly after you 've |
21 | ‘ It does take some nerve and a nerve I was n't quite sure I 'd got . |
22 | And it 's taken that length of time to break down the seventy or eighty year barriers that are in existence between workers and management . |
23 | An exact replica of one of them is being shipped to Armenia , right down to blackboards and chalk , but it 's taken top level agreement between Mr Gorbachev and Mrs Thatcher to make it happen . |
24 | It 's owned and run by Oxfordshire County Council , which is building another much bigger landfill alongside it intended to take twelve year 's worth of south Oxfordshire 's waste . |