Example sentences of "it [verb] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It has to take the initiative in building up the collection , and not rely on librarians remembering to send new material . |
2 | It has taken a 50pc stake in a yarn spinning mill and a 60pc stake in a scheme to produce industrial wool yarn for export . |
3 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 45 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
4 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 50 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
5 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 70 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
6 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
7 | Both represent such a considerable departure from previous practice , however , and share so many features in common , that it has taken a while for the dust to settle after the major upheavals of recent years and for the difference between them to emerge . |
8 | It has taken a lot of chef 's skills away but it speeds everything up . |
9 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
10 | Fifteen Para , which has its headquarters in my constituency , was being marched to oblivion until public opinion brought itself to bear on the Ministry , and I am grateful that it has taken a step backwards , but we still do not know what size that step is . |
11 | Leeds , UK-based VisionWare Ltd is supposed to announce its fourth product at Xhibition this week , but since it has taken a vow of silence everyone will have to wait until Thursday to find out what 's going on . |
12 | She said : ‘ Everyone appears to agree it is more sensible to keep this traffic on rail but it has taken the efforts of hundreds of people to get a six-month reprieve . |
13 | ‘ It has taken the rise in bottled water drinking to make it practicable to sell it on its own . ’ |
14 | Imagine says it has taken the complexity out of authoring by creating a program that constructs sophisticated hypermedia apps without recourse to a scripting language . |
15 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
16 | The discussion has several times strayed into semiological terminology and it has taken the nature of ideology largely for granted ; both signification and ideology in popular music demand detailed study . |
17 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
18 | It has taken the Tories ' current enthusiasm for copying Labour policies — and this week 's signal from the Bank of England that it favours a form of credit controls — to start to blur that image . |
19 | The more the hybridizing and crossing back and forth has concentrated on the spectacular , the further it has taken the plants from the vigour of their natural origins , and the less resistant many have become to pest and disease . |
20 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
21 | It has been advocated for decades , GCSE has helped the process , but it has taken the pressures generated by the national curriculum to bring an integration of library and subject work . |
22 | ‘ It seemed to take a lot of counting up . ’ |
23 | One last rocky outcrop of headland ; it seemed to take an age to round . |
24 | It 's all new , is it going to take a bit of getting used to ? |
25 | Buy a metal bulb planting tool while you 're at it to help take the frustration out of planting into the grass . |
26 | Because that 's what it costs to take a person on do the training me coming here er interviewing |
27 | At present I am only interested in the extra amount it costs to take the car out on the road . |
28 | Yes in the vicin I I did n't know the cupboards were near the bed , but yes , in relation to the bed those two places would it have taken a fraction of a second to strip off the duvet to check what was under it . |
29 | It aims to take a quarter of the market share . |
30 | Called Powersafe , it aims to take the worry out of monitoring electrical equipment in the workplace , a task made compulsory by the UK 's 1990 Electricity at Work Regulations . |