Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Well , I suppose it takes all sorts to make a world . ’ |
| 32 | , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd . |
| 33 | I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across . |
| 34 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 35 | It takes great patience to build up a new technological business . |
| 36 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 37 | It takes visual sensitivity to realise that a meandering medieval street is quite different from the traffic engineers ' meandering street and this is why the consultants ' perspective drawings look so horribly wrong . |
| 38 | ‘ Why is it , ’ he asks rhetorically , ‘ that musicians in general do n't like to play Berliozz ? they themselves have told me it takes fierce discipline to play the music in true ensemble ; it takes a lot of rehearsal to sound fluent at the tempos Berlioz often requires . |
| 39 | Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination . |
| 40 | It takes 12 Britons to do the work of nine Germans or of eight Japanese , which suggests that a good many more redundancies will have to be declared before British industry is able to compete on the world markets . |
| 41 | It takes careful study to confirm whether a particular sex difference is indeed maintained by male competition or female choice ; but the considerable evidence now available suggests that Darwin was essentially correct . |
| 42 | All these mistakes are only too easy to make , and it takes constant effort to keep oneself up to the mark . |
| 43 | Probably most such birds possess more powerful navigational skills , such as those we shall discuss shortly for pigeons , but it takes special experiments to demonstrate the fact . |
| 44 | Any man can be unfaithful , but it takes special circumstances to write a letter like that . ’ |
| 45 | Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt . |
| 46 | As the Governor observed , it takes more time to change attitudes , but he thought that progress was being made here too and that the new recruitment would accelerate the process . |
| 47 | It takes three generations to make a gentleman , they say ; but the sons and daughters of impoverished immigrants into London in Victorian times were only one remove from their humble roots elsewhere — every reason , therefore , to collect around themselves the trappings of grandeur . |
| 48 | It takes three pages to demolish Philip . |
| 49 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 50 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |
| 51 | It takes three months to commit even a simple one to memory , and then once you 've used it , pouf ! it 's gone . |
| 52 | It takes three years to become a qualified craftsman , said Mr Rowney , who trains wall builders at Botton village , near Danby , in the Esk Valley . |
| 53 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |
| 54 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 55 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 56 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 57 | It takes intelligent illumination to peer through the fog generated by so much detail . |
| 58 | However , it takes some skill to identify them . |
| 59 | It takes some imagination to share the contradictions , the unrealised hopes , the might-have-beens , of the past . |
| 60 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |