Example sentences of "it [adv] take [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Are there any circumstances in which the Home Secretary would feel it right to take the honourable course and resign from the office which he discharges so inadequately ? |
| 2 | Public ownership of development land puts control of our scarcest resource in the hands of the community , and enables it thereby to take an overall perspective . |
| 3 | Looking at the graceful lofty sweep of the stone finger now it only takes a slight imaginative leap to picture the majestic beauty of the abbey in its former entirety . |
| 4 | It is the ongoing maintenance requirements which will be most scrutinised by the environmental health officer , and in many cases , it only takes a dirty grease filter system dripping onto the food cooking surfaces to alert the authorities . |
| 5 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 6 | It only takes a small criminal minority to cause these problems and the message must be that the residents of this estate will pull together to stop it happening again . |
| 7 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 8 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |
| 9 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 10 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 11 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 12 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 13 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 14 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 15 | Still , it only takes a few bars of Kondrashin ( the work 's first interpreter ) to feel what the music is really driving at — this is part of a two-disc set with the first three symphonies on Le Chant du Monde . |
| 16 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 17 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 18 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 19 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 20 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 21 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 22 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 23 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 24 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |
| 25 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 26 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 27 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 28 | ‘ I believe everyone has innate creativity ’ she confided in me , ‘ but with some it just takes a little bit of coaxing before it will surface ’ . |
| 29 | It just takes an ingenious mind and an ability to do crosswords and you can prove anything with words . |
| 30 | It normally takes the first ten minutes of any brisk walk to get into a rhythm and feel aerobic , so increasing the time from 20 to 30 minutes is effectively doubling the aerobic benefits . |