Example sentences of "it [vb mod] have taken a " in BNC.
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1 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |
2 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
3 | It must have taken a long time . |
4 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
5 | So it must have taken a long while ? |
6 | ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back . |
7 | It must have taken a full five seconds for him to crumple Des , but he needs another three to get moving , and by then I 'm at his side . |
8 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
9 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
10 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
11 | It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world . |
12 | It would have taken a bold investor to put 40% of a stock portfolio in the Tokyo market in the mid-1980s , even though that was what Japan 's share of global stockmarket capitalisation had become . |
13 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
14 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
15 | As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools . |
16 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
17 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
18 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
19 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
20 | It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing . |
21 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
22 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |
23 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
24 | Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant . |
25 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
26 | Well , it would have taken a lot of investment . |
27 | Over the years brambles had spread in all directions and had wound round the barbed wire , so it would have taken an axe or some other sharp tool to have gained entry , one certainly could n't have reached the top of the stairway at all . |
28 | It would have taken an army to shift the travellers once they got to Castlemorton . |