Example sentences of "it [vb mod] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider . |
| 2 | Yet the story says simply what it may take many pages to explain in words . |
| 3 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
| 4 | It may take five minutes of real time to play the match . |
| 5 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 6 | The legislation merely states that ‘ if it appears to a local planning authority that it is expedient in the interests of amenity ’ , it may take certain action , in relation , for example , to unsightly neglected waste land or to the preservation of trees . |
| 7 | It may take innumerable forms , such as scratching the panel of a coach , removing a tyre from a car , or the car itself from a garage , or , in the case of animals , beating or killing them . |
| 8 | But as we have seen , the law in some cases allows anyone with a genuine interest to make an application for judicial review , and it may take such persons a considerable time to find out about the decision they want to challenge . |
| 9 | Since the London Fox is anxious to preserve the integrity of the market , it may take other measures , such as extending delivery times , to relieve pressure on shorts . |
| 10 | In such cases , support and counselling for the parents and child will help in managing the situation or minimising its effect ; it may take hard work and not a little courage to help a resisting parent to recognise his or her element of incestuous involvement , but such a course can pay dividends in terms of family stability . |
| 11 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 12 | A reasonable duration period should therefore be set for MINTEG otherwise it may take several runs before anything is deleted . |
| 13 | It may take several operations . |
| 14 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 15 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 16 | There is also the possibility that the invention represents only a modest ( but nonetheless patented ) improvement on the employer 's existing products ; hence it may take several years simply to recoup the research and development costs . |
| 17 | Not everyone suits the same kind of photographic style , and it may take several tries before you find a picture that eventually gets you noticed . |
| 18 | Acrylic tends to dry less opaque than it look when wet , and it may take repeated overpainting when thin layers of colour are used to cover completely something underneath . |
| 19 | But it may take three months , so you are three months possibly on a ventilator . |
| 20 | In practice , however , the elasticity of demand for imports and exports may not be of an appropriate value or else it may take considerable time before such automatic forces become effective . |
| 21 | Although they see it as a step in the right direction , people working in the area fear that it may take another generation before Karamoja cools down . |
| 22 | It may take drastic discontinuities , of the kind described above , to highlight the fact that the environment over a period must be taken into account before one can attempt to predict the course of personality development , yet children reared under normal home circumstances are generally regarded as remaining under such constant environmental conditions that this consideration does not hold . |
| 23 | Except , of course , for the fact that it may take some while before the matter particle falls into the black hole — in which case the Universe has a temporary and minor energy surplus . |
| 24 | It is a mistake to be too ambitious to begin with , for when 50 or so near maturity they will require lots of food and it may take some gathering . |
| 25 | Although it may take some practice to get used to the idea of changing the seemingly natural number scale , you will soon find that you automatically consider whether a transformation would aid analysis when you first look at a batch of data . |
| 26 | It may take some perseverance to get the appropriate files brought out of store , but it is well worthwhile . |
| 27 | In this way it is possible to re-start the routine that was enjoyed previously , although it may take some days of patience to break the new habit . |
| 28 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 29 | It may take some time ! |
| 30 | It may take some time before a beginner experiences it , but performance will not become efficient until she does . |