Example sentences of "it took [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven minutes before the interval Duncan Ferguson smashed a header against the crossbar as the home side piled on the pressure , then it took a diving header from Grant Tierney to take a David Robertson cross off Mark Hateley 's toe . |
| 2 | It took a rare combination of management failure , over-ambition and bad luck to bring such a business to its knees . |
| 3 | From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong . |
| 4 | Do n't ask me how I kept going for so long , but it took a superhuman effort . |
| 5 | It took a five-year tussle with the Luftfahrt Bundesamt , the German body which sets aeronautical regulations , before the cylinders were approved for use in hot-air balloons . |
| 6 | A horrible weakness seemed to have invaded her limbs and it took a supreme effort to drag her attention back to the conversation . |
| 7 | It was not only the student movement that suffered in this way ; the black movement in the US , especially when it took a revolutionary form in the Black Panther Party , was violently suppressed , and in Latin America democratic and radical movements were destroyed , and military dictatorships were installed , often with American help , as in Chile . |
| 8 | Everyone knew that the rules were being stretched , but it took a skilled operator to persuade an official to ignore evidence that was blatantly paraded before him . |
| 9 | It took a three-minute phone call to the boiler manufacturers to discover that chimneys with cross sections larger than 100sq in needed metal liners , otherwise flue gases would condense on the sides and penetrate the walls . |
| 10 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 11 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 12 | In 1990 it took a major step forward with The Guinness Encyclopedia — a family reference book for the nineties . |
| 13 | It took a major effort on her part not to narrow the gap between them still further , but she managed to stay immobile . |
| 14 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 15 | It took a new generation of drama advisers to attempt to bring it back again . |
| 16 | It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together . |
| 17 | Although the company made a net profit of $10.5 million in 1987 it took a hard-line response over the strike : out of the 5000 who went out , 2000 workers were estimated to have been sacked . |
| 18 | It took a Labour Government less inhibited than the Tories with their informal links to the amateur élite to bring sport within the ambit of the welfare state by setting up the Sports Council . |
| 19 | Lord Ennals said : ‘ It took a Labour government to create the NHS and it will now take a Labour government to save the NHS . ’ |
| 20 | How ironic , Antonietta 's mother remarked , that it took a young lady from a foreign country to educate them about one of their own artists ! |
| 21 | It took a long helicopter ride to Norway to treat him , and he can no longer dive or even walk without a limp . |
| 22 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 23 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 24 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 25 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |
| 26 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 27 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 28 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 29 | It took a long time to figure out how his hair goes . |
| 30 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |