Example sentences of "it [be] take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working party on the theology of marriage is finding its task stimulating but arduous and it will surprise no one that it 's taking a long time . |
| 2 | It 's taking a long time to heal . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Everything official here seems to be tied up in red tape , so although it 's taking a long time I 'm sure the licence is being processed , ’ she declared defiantly . |
| 4 | Alpha Microsystems has written off its Italian and French subsidiaries and will be closing them soon , citing poor margins and continuous losses : as a result it 's taking a non-recurring charge in the second quarter , ended August 30 , and posting net losses of $3m , or 99 cents a share , on sales of $12.9m , up 9% . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's taken a long time for the guilt to surface . ’ |
| 6 | In Oxford for the past 18 months , it 's taken a peculiar form when youths perform stunts in high performance cars in front of crowds . |
| 7 | Card fraud is costing the industry £165 million a year and now the battle against it is taking a hi tec turn . |
| 8 | It is taking a long time to redesign the business processes of these industries . |
| 9 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 10 | It is taking a short cut to the consumer society that other East Europeans can not take , by collapsing into West Germany 's arms . |
| 11 | It is taking a particular interest in proposals in Britain , such as a pilot road-charging scheme in Cambridge which could be introduced in 1994 , a similar but smaller scheme underway in the London Borough of Richmond , and a highway-pricing plan for Edinburgh . |
| 12 | I know that it is taking a full part in the exercise being undertaken by Scottish Enterprise . |
| 13 | Clearly , to contextualise ideological responses historically is not to neutralise the ideological responses themselves , but it is to take a significant step towards understanding more fully the issues involved . |
| 14 | Vanguard , hinting at possible pragmatic advantages to the pro-Libyan stance , declared it was taking a populist , anti-terrorist position : ‘ We must condemn all terrorism even if it means upsetting the Libyans and getting no money from their Embassy ’ ( January 1987 ) . |
| 15 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 16 | Despite its claim to be an educational body , the Club could not escape the charge that it was taking an organized part in politics . |
| 17 | It was to take a further ten years and another major crisis before he could emerge from despair and find a solution to his angst and disorientation in the ranks of the party . |
| 18 | It was as difficult to record the casual speech of Zuwaya as it was to take an unposed photograph . |