Example sentences of "it took the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was critical , since it took the new tax from being a hybrid to being a loosely-disguised property tax . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It took the sad pair a long time to burn — I once read that the bill for the execution , including stake , chains and timber , came to about £3.7shillings ; . |
| 7 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It took the industrious Lowndes nearly a hundred lines to explain it all . |
| 12 | It took the merest instant , but as a process it never ceased to fascinate her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It took the best part of nine months to do it because some people were worried about its connotations with ‘ Empire ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It took the 45 ton bulldozer just 8 minutes to flatten 4 homes that had stood for 52 years . |
| 17 | It took the Croatian archaeologists almost a year to obtain permission to get into the Barbariga military base . |
| 18 | It took the combined brain power of the teachers quite a few weeks to arrive at this simple routine for getting into Friday assembly . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There can be no sense in the DTI 's refusal to publish the House of Fraser report on the grounds that it might prejudice a Serious Fraud Office inquiry when it took the opposite course over Blue Arrow . |
| 22 | It took the formidable Madrid neuroanatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal to see the significance of Golgi 's achievement ( he too got a Nobel Prize , though Golgi apparently refused to accept Cajal 's interpretation — or even to speak to him ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 25 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 26 | Situated on top of its hill in the middle of Lincolnshire , it took the full blast of the east wind all the way from Russia — nothing to stop it , you see . |
| 27 | A B&Q spokesman said last night : ‘ Because our store was the closest to the viaduct it took the full force of the blast and it could well be that we are talking of a complete demolition . |
| 28 | In many areas , it took the full weight of Paisley 's authority , exercised either directly or through loyal supporters such as Gordon Cooke , then chairman of the North Antrim branch , to persuade the Protestant Unionists to dissolve in favour of the new organization . |
| 29 | It took the military stalemate of 1915 to persuade the UDC that the time was ripe to talk about peace without victory . |