Example sentences of "it would have taken [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have taken no additional effort to assemble a selection representative of the period and presenting a new view of many leading artists ' activities and styles applied to this medium . |
| 2 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 3 | It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world . |
| 4 | It would have taken a bold investor to put 40% of a stock portfolio in the Tokyo market in the mid-1980s , even though that was what Japan 's share of global stockmarket capitalisation had become . |
| 5 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 6 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 7 | As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools . |
| 8 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 9 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 10 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
| 11 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 12 | It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing . |
| 13 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
| 14 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |
| 15 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 16 | Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant . |
| 17 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
| 18 | Well , it would have taken a lot of investment . |
| 19 | ‘ It would have taken the gilt off the gingerbread ’ , she said . |
| 20 | those of Lord Lowry ] been brought to the attention of the other division it would have taken the view that we do today . |
| 21 | Well , they erm seem to think we should have had some yellow in it for some obscure reason to match the programme , but I do n't know , I thing it would have taken the erm the look off the thing . |
| 22 | Over the years brambles had spread in all directions and had wound round the barbed wire , so it would have taken an axe or some other sharp tool to have gained entry , one certainly could n't have reached the top of the stairway at all . |
| 23 | It would have taken an army to shift the travellers once they got to Castlemorton . |