Example sentences of "it take [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bremel says it takes 6,000 lactating mice to match a cow 's output . |
| 2 | It takes 900 separate pieces of oak to build a typical timber framed house . |
| 3 | It takes specific cultural processes and relationships to , as it were , spark off these latent tendencies . |
| 4 | Interlaced displays scan alternate lines , so that it takes two complete passes to display every line on-screen . |
| 5 | It takes two distinct forms in different species . |
| 6 | So body language if you read a lot of the books on body language it takes one single action and it interprets it based on that . |
| 7 | For me , at least — and I think for most people who travel around this country for pleasure , that is , to see things — it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure out of knowing the anatomy of a town and why it takes that particular form and not just its superficial features , however attractive they may be individually . |
| 8 | It 's difficult to tell which wines will win , and easy to say when wine is good , but it takes that little bit extra to make it a winner . |
| 9 | It takes 24,000 cubic ft of helium to fill the Met Office research balloon . |
| 10 | it takes six bleeding hours to think about it let alone six minutes . |
| 11 | We realised that there could be some difficulties , and some apparent injustices might show up , but due to great consultative work put in by Councillors , and Mrs , often against great vilification and personal attack , many per problems were sorted out as they arose but we saw that i in April motions in amendments we see that it takes three full paragraphs of the amended motion to see that they deign to welcome initiatives which extend participation in decision making to schools , governors and parents . |
| 12 | Two were unrolling a 30-foot banner which read ‘ It takes 53 dumb animals to make this coat but only one to wear it . ’ |
| 13 | It took twenty-six separate Cabinet meetings to resolve the issue . |
| 14 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 15 | But he will have been worried that it took four fine saves from John Lukic to keep City out . |
| 16 | It took many long years for the twelve swords to emerge from the workshops of Alaric , long years even for a Dwarf , and , as it proved , more than the lifetime of a man . |
| 17 | In 1798 it took amazing moral courage to publish a poem which said ‘ the world is alive ’ . |
| 18 | At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house . |
| 19 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 20 | IT TOOK three head-on rail collisions before safety specialists started to analyse the risk at controversial junctions , a fatal accident inquiry heard yesterday . |
| 21 | All the old signs appeared : I wanted to be sick , my knees kept quivering , and it took three deep-bowled cups of claret before I could even remember what day of the week it was . |
| 22 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |
| 23 | To say it is a hidden village is an understatement as it took some hawk-eyed map reading and signpost spotting to get us there in the first place . |
| 24 | The people who conceived this film and the people who applaud it take certain masochistic fascination in casting themselves as the martyrs , poor innocents slaughtered by barbarians . ’ |