Example sentences of "it take the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of the notional syllabus is that it takes the communicative facts of language into account from the beginning without losing sight of grammatical and situational factors . |
| 2 | The Shorthorn/Highland first cross has always been popular but it took the concerted efforts of the three Cadzow brothers on an island off the west coast of Scotland to consolidate the virtues of the cross and turn it into a genuine breed , the Luing , named after the island of its origin . |
| 3 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 4 | It took the Croatian archaeologists almost a year to obtain permission to get into the Barbariga military base . |
| 5 | It took the combined efforts of the Bank of England intervening to buy unwanted sterling , the lowest inflation rate since 1967 ( and the lowest underlying rate since July 1958 ) , and a firm promise by the Chancellor not to play fast and loose with interest rates to reassure the markets . |
| 6 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 7 | He struggled to repair the bank 's balance sheet to allow it to take the inevitable write-offs against its $6.7bn third world debt portfolio . |
| 8 | Granada Group Plc 's third party maintenance provider , Granada Computer Services , believes its new React Centre and reorganised customer services operation will enable it to take the big manufacturers head on . |