Example sentences of "takes [art] certain [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | It takes a certain type of man to do a neighbourhood beat . |
| 3 | DNA briefly exposed to acid takes a certain number of aldehyde ( -CHO ) groups on board , which are stained purple by Schiff 's reagent . |
| 4 | A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output . |
| 5 | But I 'm not saying that people are incompetent , but it takes a certain amount |
| 6 | This packet takes a certain amount of restraint , because it , it holds a lot of different things in it . |
| 7 | Erm , but that takes a certain amount of dexterity . |
| 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 . |