Example sentences of "it have take [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It has taken a hundred and forty years to build a graduate profession .
2 It has taken a respectable 15 seats , but Signor Orlando won the personal endorsement of nearly one in five of all voters in Palermo itself .
3 It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control .
4 It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives .
5 It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly .
6 It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added .
7 Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic .
8 It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived .
9 It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement .
10 It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives .
11 In particular , it has taken a strong line against price fixing ( e.g. dyestuffs , glass containers ) and market sharing or quantity agreements ( e.g. cement ) to the extent that such practices are now unlikely ever to be granted an exemption .
12 Unfortunately , it has taken a major tragedy to focus the minds of hauliers and their professional advisers sharply on these problem areas .
13 It has taken a closer look at what it pays and what it gets out of its Brussels El Dorado , and it is not happy .
14 Reebok believes that it has taken a further innovative step by eliminating much of the superfluous components so that now , the tennis shoe will consist of an estimated 12 separate components .
15 I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully .
16 It has taken the black South African Rugby Association and the ‘ coloured ’ South African Rugby Federation under its wing , and they no doubt now want to flex their own muscles .
17 Unaided by technology ( but possibly assisted by an abundance of cheap labour and a convenient absence of red tape ) the Mark II establishment was up and running in a quarter of the time it has taken the current version to proceed from the stage of the second catastrophic fire in 1980 to opening its doors .
18 But it has taken the extraordinary campaign of the Natural Law Party to bring home the sheer size and wealth of the movement , 25 years after it first made headlines .
19 It has taken the best elements from several Dutch schemes the Dutch being recognised as the experts in creating wetland nature reserves .
20 It has taken the combined expertise of ferreting economists and inquisitive academics , people like Professor Jeffery and Colin Sweet-an energy economist who has pursued the issue through every nuclear public inquiry since 1977 — to tease out the truth from the statistics .
21 Though the oil company regards it as a fixed installation for which a safety case will have to be prepared under the new regulations administered by the Health and Safety Executive , it has taken the added precaution of having the hull constructed in compliance with rules issued by Lloyds Register of Shipping .
22 Strangely , it has taken the nursing education establishment in Britain until now to recognise the value of debate , and the need to educate nurses for their own sake , as well as in the interests of patient care .
23 I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam .
24 Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) .
25 It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar .
26 It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off .
27 Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections .
28 261 Squadron was indeed tired — it had taken a terrible beating from Müncheberg and his men .
29 Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them .
30 It had taken a hundred firemen from three counties to bring the blaze under control , and it destroyed half the British armed forces stock of parachutes.Senior Aircraftman Douglas Bailey had drunk the equivalent of seventeen pints of beer .
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