Example sentences of "take [art] [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 There 's no money in them and it takes the right machinery to cut them up .
2 The largest questions the members of a management partnership must answer are whether sharing is practicable , whether its members believe in it and how long — if it is a reality — it takes the outside world to believe that it can provide the promised level of quality .
3 This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project .
4 This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project .
5 It takes a tremendous effort to stop , so :
6 That kind of package takes a wee while to put together .
7 ‘ It 's a celebration of the best of a woman when a designer makes a great dress , and it takes a certain intelligence to carry it off .
8 Two car bombs in Karachi kill 72 and injure 250 ; the authorities blame ‘ saboteurs of foreign origin ’ ( in the presence of such disasters , it takes a certain frivolity to care whether those who perpetrated the act were natives or not ) .
9 Since it takes a certain time to reach its working temperature and cool down again , it would not be able to follow the changes satisfactorily .
10 Anyone can be a biological mother , but it takes a professional woman to make a good job of it .
11 Royal icing takes a little practice to spread evenly and pipe , but the results are well worth the effort .
12 A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point .
13 The process takes a little time to grasp but very soon you will quickly put down on paper a series of " main points " .
14 Once a nectary has been drained , it takes a little time to refill .
15 Better start walking there now , takes a bleeding hour to get round there !
16 It takes a complete turn to replace the shell and prepare to fire , so you not only fail to shoot this turn but you can not shoot next turn either .
17 But not all mosquitoes that breed in puddles or water pots are vectors of malaria , and it takes a competent entomologist to distinguish the dangerous from the harmless and to carry out this ‘ species sanitation ’ .
18 But it takes a mighty age to tell its tale and dives head-first into the soap suds along the way .
19 So for example , as demand falls in-house production takes a greater share to protect employment for regular workers but at the expense of labour in smaller suppliers .
20 but you know , it takes a long while to get over it
21 No but that takes a long while to get round .
22 It takes a long time to reach Dynjandi , but the weather improves as the day wears on , leaving me with wonderful views across the Arnarfjörđ3ur , its far peaks wreathed in clouds .
23 If the property does not sell at all , or if it takes a long time to sell , the local authority search result may become dated .
24 Yes but you know I mean a tr a tree takes a long time to mature does n't it ?
25 The second — Mr Lawson 's line -that demand is indeed slowing down , but that it takes a long time to affect the balance of payments .
26 Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another .
27 ‘ When the mortars wake me at night , it takes a long time to go back to sleep .
28 But it takes a long time to regain trust .
29 If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice .
30 Banks are like supertankers : it takes a long time to turn them round .
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