Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes real determination to pack all the country house thriller cliches you can think of into half an hour , but TVS and Ian Stuart Black managed it in House of Glass ( ITV ) , an Appointment With Fear try-out for a post-franchise series . |
| 2 | ‘ It takes real guts to carry off such a successful fraud . |
| 3 | In the case of amniocentesis , it takes two-three weeks to grow the culture from which the presence of handicap can be detected . |
| 4 | Roses are naturally at their most beautiful in summer , but it takes year-long care to ensure they maintain their glory . |
| 5 | Experiences , they argued , are identical with brain states ; but when someone is conscious of his experiences he is not conscious of his brain as such : it takes modern science to tell us that consciousness is a state of the brain . |
| 6 | Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote . |
| 7 | It takes four days to complete one orbit of Earth . |
| 8 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |
| 9 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 10 | It takes 10 minutes to reach the arch , slogging through the filth and scum . |
| 11 | It takes little imagination to see that here is a huge resource for the study of consumer and retailing habits , but if we follow the practice suggested recently by some archivists and take the network with its constituent data flows and data tables , software resources and analytical outputs as a whole , as the document itself , this is a major site for examining the cultural effect of these systems . |
| 12 | It takes little imagination to foretell the likely consequences of just one peg disintegrating and flinging its spring or its free arm into the cutter gap during a pass ; or the possible knock-on effect(s) on the rest of the makeshift assembly and the astonished operator if this should happen . |
| 13 | He says , no it takes thirty days to get here . |
| 14 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 15 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 16 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 17 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
| 18 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 19 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 20 | It takes two sides to make war . |
| 21 | It takes two months to make one costume ; the machines are old and Russians do n't know how to work . |
| 22 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 23 | It takes two people to have safer sex in a relationship . |
| 24 | He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show . |
| 25 | For every unit of alcohol ( half a pint of beer ; one glass of wine ) , it takes one hour to clear itself from the body . |
| 26 | Indeed , I always had a sneaking admiration for him and I think he liked me for , as you know , it takes one rogue to recognise another . |
| 27 | Now you know Shallot 's golden rule : It takes one rogue to know another , and a real rogue to recognise an honest man . |
| 28 | I was questioned about this in recent years when I visited the Camp during one of my lecture rounds to the ATC in the Highlands , but I only add this yarn to illustrate that it takes all kinds to make any air force station , and I am sure our childrens ' children will be told and the tale will no doubt be embroidered to suit the occasion . |
| 29 | ‘ It takes all sorts to make a team . |
| 30 | It takes all sorts to make a clientele . |