Example sentences of "it [verb] take a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It has taken a respectable 15 seats , but Signor Orlando won the personal endorsement of nearly one in five of all voters in Palermo itself . |
2 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
3 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
4 | ‘ It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly . |
5 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
6 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
7 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
8 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
9 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
10 | In particular , it has taken a strong line against price fixing ( e.g. dyestuffs , glass containers ) and market sharing or quantity agreements ( e.g. cement ) to the extent that such practices are now unlikely ever to be granted an exemption . |
11 | Unfortunately , it has taken a major tragedy to focus the minds of hauliers and their professional advisers sharply on these problem areas . |
12 | It seemed to take a long time . |
13 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
14 | I am thinking of purchasing a new Ninety Diesel Turbo hard top , is it possible to have it converted to take a full canvas tilt and who would undertake such a conversion ? |
15 | We have suggested that ‘ diata ’ means a way of living ; it means taking a holistic viewpoint on the food we eat and the exercise our bodies need . |
16 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
17 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
18 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
19 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
20 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
21 | 261 Squadron was indeed tired — it had taken a terrible beating from Müncheberg and his men . |
22 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
23 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |
24 | It had taken a bad beating from the RAF and been widely rebuilt , much of it as copies of the original high-pitched medieval buildings . |
25 | Nor was Lotus a negligible factor : it had taken a severe dip in I975 , but anyone knowing Chapman had to know that Lotus declines were generally followed by Lotus ascensions ; with Andretti and Peterson driving against him , Hunt was starting the season in a star-studded field . |
26 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
27 | Joshua , seven , landed the pike following a five minute fight after it had taken a dead dace to 15 lb line . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It does take a long while does n't it ? |
30 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |