Example sentences of "it took a [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 | It took a hundred firefighters more than four hours to bring it under control . |
| 7 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 8 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 9 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 10 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 11 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 12 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 13 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 14 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 15 | It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth . |
| 16 | A horrible weakness seemed to have invaded her limbs and it took a supreme effort to drag her attention back to the conversation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It took a fuller self-knowledge to do something effective about them . |
| 21 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 22 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 23 | In 1990 it took a major step forward with The Guinness Encyclopedia — a family reference book for the nineties . |
| 24 | It took a major effort on her part not to narrow the gap between them still further , but she managed to stay immobile . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It took a new generation of drama advisers to attempt to bring it back again . |
| 27 | It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Lord Ennals said : ‘ It took a Labour government to create the NHS and it will now take a Labour government to save the NHS . ’ |