Example sentences of "it take the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More often it takes the plural form , indicating partition of the property between co-heiresses , like Agnes Chaplayne and Beatrix Salesbury at Gayhurst , Bucks . |
| 2 | It takes the total cost of the package for Britain to at least £1.3bn . |
| 3 | However , the best reason for making a will is that it takes the practical burden from the shoulders of those you leave behind . |
| 4 | This is called benevolence , more especially so when it takes the broad form of a wish for the happiness of others in general . |
| 5 | Ian can blast this cruise missile on wheels to 100mph in less time than it takes the average family car to reach 30mph . |
| 6 | There 's no money in them and it takes the right machinery to cut them up . |
| 7 | The largest questions the members of a management partnership must answer are whether sharing is practicable , whether its members believe in it and how long — if it is a reality — it takes the outside world to believe that it can provide the promised level of quality . |
| 8 | If there is a single function relating arousal and memory it seems likely that it takes the inverted-U shape which is often suggested to describe the relationship between task performance and memory , with memory impairments occurring at very low or very high levels of arousal . |
| 9 | No apparently it takes the whole top of it |
| 10 | Law as integrity is also a non-skeptical theory of legal rights : it holds that people have as legal rights whatever rights are sponsored by the principles that provide the best justification of legal practice as a whole Pragmatism , on the contrary , denies that people ever have legal rights ; it takes the bracing view that they are never entitled to what would otherwise be worse for the community just because some legislature said so or a long string of judges decided other people were . |
| 11 | Where plot might be jettisoned , story is retained as a principle of connection : ‘ Once the story is launched it must go on it must follow its course however crooked it may be even if it takes the wrong direction ’ ( 1976b ) . |
| 12 | It takes the same amount of fuel to cook for 20 as it does to cook for 10 . |
| 13 | Often enough it takes the same form as with Beerbohm : the affectation of an anachronistic ignorance about what life in North America is like . |
| 14 | Before doing that , it takes the old sample and writes it to DAC1 , so that the array behaves as a 64-character circular buffer which merely delays the samples . |
| 15 | But this does not mean that it takes the conservative stance of necessarily accepting existing definitions of crime . |
| 16 | Inflation is one of th , or yeah , not inflation itself , but the premium will go up by A , the new cost of the benefit what else would it take the new premium rate |
| 17 | This was critical , since it took the new tax from being a hybrid to being a loosely-disguised property tax . |
| 18 | Even the great diversity of dialects did not allow linguistic grouping ; it took the nineteenth century to invent the demarcations that created separate languages corresponding to the nations which had by then been created . |
| 19 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 20 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 21 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 22 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 23 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 24 | It took the merest instant , but as a process it never ceased to fascinate her . |
| 25 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 26 | ‘ It took the best part of nine months to do it because some people were worried about its connotations with ‘ Empire ’ . |
| 27 | First in the world to deploy an ICBM , it took the Soviet Union ten years longer than the United States to develop a reliable guidance system ; it has also taken 25 years to develop a quiet nuclear submarine , and having set the pace with anti-satellite weapons , the USSR may already have fallen behind the United States in this field . |
| 28 | It took the 45 ton bulldozer just 8 minutes to flatten 4 homes that had stood for 52 years . |
| 29 | It took the combined brain power of the teachers quite a few weeks to arrive at this simple routine for getting into Friday assembly . |
| 30 | By the third decade of that century , the idea of a prime minister had emerged and in its first physical manifestation it took the imposing form of Sir Robert Walpole . |