Example sentences of "take an [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , when you look at it in that context it becomes very much erm , part of your life , and it takes an awful lot to break that habit and there 's no help . |
| 2 | ‘ It takes an enlightened boss to realise that standard textbook career progression is not always right for certain people , ’ says Kate Hargreaves . |
| 3 | We regret the delay and we hope that the promised publication on Waddilove will be earlier rather than later in the current session , and that the government will take an early opportunity to publish clearer guidelines on its assessment of ‘ national need ’ for opencast coal , and the weight to be given to environmental considerations . |
| 4 | Er in fact it would take an entire evening to go out to Keighley . |
| 5 | More like a bulletproof tank , someone else said ; it would take an anti-tank missile to get at him . |
| 6 | It would take an incredible wind to do that , we do our best to keep it right and if anyone tells us immediately when such a thing happens we will try to put it right |
| 7 | From this he calculated the time it would take a sated bat to starve to death , the time it would take an empty bat to starve to death , and all intermediates . |
| 8 | It will take an enormous effort to make the world just a little safer , and the resources might have been used elsewhere to greater effect . |
| 9 | It took an injured knee to convince the 28-year-old star that he wanted to become an actor . |
| 10 | The Stokes were a northern business family who took an old-sounding name to add to their own when they moved into the south . |
| 11 | It took an enormous effort to drag her thoughts on to safer ground . |
| 12 | Sometimes we have taken an independent decision to shut down one of our plants and bought in tonnage from a competitor , sometimes they have shut down and brought in tonnage from us . |
| 13 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |
| 14 | The information should enable the recipient to evaluate the opportunity against his acquisition criteria and to take an instant decision to reject or proceed with the opportunity . |
| 15 | 4 wishes to take an non-exclusive licence to use the Existing Documentation as the basis of publishing documentation to accompany both the Licensed Software and the Student Disks as described in Part 3 of Schedule 1 to this Agreement ( ‘ the Accompanying Documentation ’ ) . |
| 16 | In 1956 the British forces had appeared to take an unconscionable time to get from Cyprus to Port Said . |