Example sentences of "it has taken [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 45 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 2 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 50 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 3 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 70 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 4 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
| 5 | Both represent such a considerable departure from previous practice , however , and share so many features in common , that it has taken a while for the dust to settle after the major upheavals of recent years and for the difference between them to emerge . |
| 6 | It has taken a lot of chef 's skills away but it speeds everything up . |
| 7 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
| 8 | Fifteen Para , which has its headquarters in my constituency , was being marched to oblivion until public opinion brought itself to bear on the Ministry , and I am grateful that it has taken a step backwards , but we still do not know what size that step is . |
| 9 | Leeds , UK-based VisionWare Ltd is supposed to announce its fourth product at Xhibition this week , but since it has taken a vow of silence everyone will have to wait until Thursday to find out what 's going on . |
| 10 | ‘ It has taken the rise in bottled water drinking to make it practicable to sell it on its own . ’ |
| 11 | Imagine says it has taken the complexity out of authoring by creating a program that constructs sophisticated hypermedia apps without recourse to a scripting language . |
| 12 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 13 | The discussion has several times strayed into semiological terminology and it has taken the nature of ideology largely for granted ; both signification and ideology in popular music demand detailed study . |
| 14 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |