Example sentences of "it [verb] taken [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its parallel body , the Emerging Issues Task Force , is notable for the way in which it has taken anticipatory action in time to head off expected abuses . |
| 2 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
| 3 | Lawrence added : ‘ We have played five games against First Division sides this season and it has taken extra time in the fifth for us to be defeated . |
| 4 | It has taken real courage for the 26-year-old Good 'ol Boy from Dardanelle , Arkansas , to admit his alcohol dependency to the world , turn his back on tournament golf for now and reach for help instead of his enormous metal driver . |
| 5 | Rule 5 — 30(1) provides that a firm must not recommend a transaction to a private customer or act as a discretionary manager unless it has taken reasonable steps to enable the private customer to understand the nature of the risks involved . |
| 6 | Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field . |
| 7 | It has taken present-day governments some time to understand that a universal benefit is a bulwark against the disincentive effects of a largely means-tested system , and that , given that the benefit is paid irrespective of whether the household head is in or out of work but is nevertheless deducted from supplementary benefit , it helps maintain a difference between income in paid work and income on the dole . |
| 8 | It took hundreds of millions of years to evolve these abilities , longer , perhaps , than it has taken human beings to evolve from fish . |
| 9 | Marxist feminists are quick to point to the essentialism of much of radical feminism , and argue that while women 's oppression is almost universal , it has taken different forms in different societies . |
| 10 | It was only 10 years ago that the prize-money was less than £80,000 , but it has taken giant strides forward and the future looks even brighter . |
| 11 | It had taken small effort for the cop to lead her on . |
| 12 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
| 13 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 14 | But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late . |
| 15 | An exact replica of one of them is being shipped to Armenia , right down to blackboards and chalk , but it 's taken top level agreement between Mr Gorbachev and Mrs Thatcher to make it happen . |