Example sentences of "that it take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 2 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 3 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 4 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 5 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 6 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 7 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 8 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 9 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 10 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 11 | Such was the official secrecy , or confusion , that it took several weeks to confirm that no RCM boys were among the casualties . |
| 12 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 13 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 14 | In her foreword , Ruth Richardson , the Minister of Finance ( and not the most popular Kiwi politician ) , expresses it thus : ‘ The special advantages of accrual accounting are that it distinguishes between capital and current spending , and that it takes better account of the cost of current policies for future generations … |
| 15 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 16 | Alright , now if we look at the , the rural instead of the urban wage rate , right , up here alright , now let's just say that it takes that amount of time before this individual gets a job in the urban area , alright , now if we discount alright the erm , the rural , the urban wages right , that 's all this |
| 17 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 18 | I was questioned about this in recent years when I visited the Camp during one of my lecture rounds to the ATC in the Highlands , but I only add this yarn to illustrate that it takes all kinds to make any air force station , and I am sure our childrens ' children will be told and the tale will no doubt be embroidered to suit the occasion . |
| 19 | I feel , however , that it takes insufficient account of the natural caution and pragmatism of the British people , which was admirably reflected in the negotiating approach of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and his colleagues in the Cabinet . |
| 20 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 21 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 22 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 23 | Chris Hook claims that it takes expert knowledge and a great deal of patience to hack into a computer system . |
| 24 | ‘ It teaches you to be patient and determined , and reminds you that it takes hard work and practice when things are n't going right . ’ |
| 25 | Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now . |
| 26 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 27 | Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination . |
| 28 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 29 | The dominion status declaration was made in October 1929 and met on the Congress side by what amounted to a demand that it take immediate effect . |
| 30 | The Guide-lines Commission interpreted an ambiguous statutory injunction that it take correctional resources into ‘ substantial consideration ’ as a mandate that its guide-lines not increase prison population beyond existing capacity constraints ( Tonry 1988 ) . |