Example sentences of "it [vb -s] take [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves taking sperm from men and mixing it with their partner 's eggs which are replaced in the Fallopian tube in the GIFT technique — Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer . |
| 2 | Two thirds of the 74,000 households it covers take part in its green box scheme . |
| 3 | In that case , it has to take responsibility for allocating all foreign exchange to the users by administrative methods . |
| 4 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 5 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 6 | The point is that it has taken players like Wallace and Hardenberger to contradict the cliches about the limitations of the instrument and to prove how flexible it really is . |
| 7 | It expects lower extraordinary spending this year , since it has taken charges for job cuts as well as depreciation already . |
| 8 | It expects lower extraordinary spending this year , since it has taken charges for job cuts as well as depreciation already . |
| 9 | His package appealed primarily to upscale white suburbanites , but it has taken hold with other candidates and could be merged with Mr Clinton 's platform without either side losing face . |
| 10 | Not only is it not recoverable but it has taken place at the most profitable period in the product life , before the adverse effects of ageing have affected its sales and costs . |
| 11 | Not only is it not recoverable but it has taken place at the most profitable period in the product life , before the adverse effects of ageing have affected its sales and costs . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) The merger has taken place within the last six months ( unless it has taken place in secret ) . |
| 13 | Also , before the 1991 Budget , the tax benefit was simply not a big enough incentive , and it has taken time for companies to respond to the new , more generous tax environment . |
| 14 | IT HAS taken time for people around Europe to grasp the full meaning of what has been done , and continues to be done , in their name by their political leaders . |
| 15 | Again , it has taken years of painstaking research to enable us to emulate devices which other creatures make regular use of in their everyday lives . |
| 16 | Esquire , as it has taken form in America , has been an avid chronicler of games and the people who play them for all of its fifty-eight years . |
| 17 | Subscribers may have noticed the scepticism with which we have tended to greet analysts ' forecasts for IBM Corp 's earnings , and invariably their forecasts have proved too optimistic — but it seems to take time for the true awfulness of the situation to sink in with them . |
| 18 | It aims to take account of the operational needs of existing users , obligations that international treaties and organisations impose , the impact of technological developments and the availability of resources to meet recommendations and implement changes . |
| 19 | It deserves to take pride of place at Maastricht , ahead of arguments about creating federal institutions , transfers of sovereignty and the powers of the west European Parliament . |
| 20 | It means taking stock of what is important in your life . |
| 21 | This draft also has a separate provision relating to the imposition of conditions by the parties to a treaty , which a third party must observe if it wishes to take advantage of the relevant right . |
| 22 | But he stressed : ‘ It is the United States that is saying it wishes to take action against European exports to the United States . |
| 23 | I myself know only too well what it 's like to have a car stolen , so as a car is one of our most valuable possessions , it pays to take care of it at all times . |
| 24 | It does take account of those beds that were available in those three homes during the current year up until the time they closed . |
| 25 | And she said er well it does take time for them to dry out does n't it , she said ? |
| 26 | It seeks to take account of the facts . |
| 27 | In setting up women 's refuges and rape crisis centres it does not seek revenge , it seeks to take care of the survivors and to change the policies of state agencies . |
| 28 | This can easily be overdone ; it fails to take account of the inextricably intertwined motives with which Christian societies addressed themselves to their pagan neighbours . |
| 29 | Such an analysis suggests that house design is the fundamental determinant of social life ; while this , in itself , is a very difficult position to maintain , the argument is also fundamentally flawed on its own grounds since it fails to take account of who in the household actually does the work generated by the ‘ hobbies ’ . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , from my point of view , by far the greater part of this material is completely misleading because it fails to take account of the fact that while kinship words in most European languages are applied , with rare exceptions , only to relationships within the private domain and thus have quite specific meanings , the corresponding words in most other languages are highly polysemic . |