Example sentences of "it would take [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would take a hundred lifetimes merely to skim the surface and , alas , we are only given one . |
| 2 | It would take a great deal more than flagrant attempts to assassinate people in Western capitals and the hardly less obvious espionage of the Directorate of External Intelligence to make Nicolae Ceauşescu persona non grata in the West . |
| 3 | Well my Lord as a time saver it would quite er how my er learned friend went through the documents , i it in the contents she would otherwise make and one suspects that it would take a great deal longer . |
| 4 | It would take a better speaker than I , and a longer speech , to answer that question . |
| 5 | It would take a million years to tell you all the things I have done , and some of the things I would n't tell even you , ’ she said mischievously , ‘ but it 's great to be home . |
| 6 | It would take a million . ’ |
| 7 | Critics claim the technology is 1980s passe and not for Unix and that it would take a tremendous amount of engineering to make it suitable for modern enterprise-wide client/server applications that demand object-oriented solutions . |
| 8 | His own love of stories , though real enough , was private , almost furtive — he was a dedicated reader of the Sherlock Holmes stories , for example — but it would take a sharp eye , and a good memory , to notice the quotation from Conan Doyle 's ‘ The Musgrave Ritual ’ buried in his pre-war play Murder in the Cathedral . |
| 9 | The tall storeroom on the ground floor , just beyond the kitchen , stretched high up to the rafters and Helen knew it would take a sleeping gallery . |
| 10 | Once food has cooled to 5°C or colder , if any food poisoning bacteria are present most will grow only very slowly and it would take a long time for them to reach large enough numbers to cause a problem . |
| 11 | It would take a long , long time to heal , if ever . |
| 12 | The Eradicator may well be the solution ; tests conducted by Ray have certainly proved encouraging , and it would take a long string of coincidences to attain the results he has achieved by any other means . |
| 13 | The English host was able to cross unhindered , although it would take a long time to do so in its entirety . |
| 14 | She helped me as much as she could , but I knew it would take a long time to reach Estella 's level . |
| 15 | It would take a long — |
| 16 | It would take a long time to get our grill out because I do n't think it would move any more . |
| 17 | From this he calculated the time it would take a sated bat to starve to death , the time it would take an empty bat to starve to death , and all intermediates . |
| 18 | It would take a separate book to give all of the tragic accounts of the killings , and , in any case , this has already been done . |
| 19 | It would take a particular person to make her want to come down , into the house , and she fretted : by the time they came , would everything be dusty ? |
| 20 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 21 | ‘ I had expected it would take a little while just to organise your thoughts . ’ |
| 22 | It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ? |
| 23 | But the discrimination against spirits is still so great that it would take a further 12 Budgets before spirits are taxed on the same basis as wine and beer . |
| 24 | And besides , it would take a stronger stomach than mine to contemplate furthering our acquaintance . ’ |
| 25 | Even given that these are projected figures , it would take a massive error to even get close to a break-even , never mind a situation whereby track costs were not covered . |
| 26 | Although this would have provided the pupils with much more information on the Second World War , we decided that it would take a significant amount of control away from the pupils . |
| 27 | It would take a mathematical nightmare to go down . |
| 28 | It would take a bold , reforming chancellor and an economy where everything was going right . |
| 29 | er as a Euro candidate it would take a colossal amount of time . |
| 30 | However it would take a brave man to prophesy that they will never come back . |