Example sentences of "and it take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
2 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
3 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
4 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
5 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
6 | The points of choice have to be put to other people and it takes patient consultation before everyone can agree about the management plan for a school in which social , academic , moral and community developments all have their place . |
7 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
8 | All these mistakes are only too easy to make , and it takes constant effort to keep oneself up to the mark . |
9 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
10 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
11 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
12 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
13 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
14 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
15 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
16 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
17 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
18 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |