Example sentences of "would have taken [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 2 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 3 | The cost of this exercise was considered prohibitive , and the time factor to effect the alterations involved had it been financially acceptable , would have taken a couple of years . |
| 4 | A real thief would have taken a screwdriver and levered off the clasps . |
| 5 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 6 | The evidence of whether she would have taken up her place at Norwich in Autumn nineteen eighty seven or would have taken a year off and started in Autumn nineteen eight eight is equivocal . |
| 7 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
| 8 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 9 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 10 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 11 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
| 12 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 13 | Well , it would have taken a lot of investment . |
| 14 | well I mean I 'm not surprised they do n't wan na take a picture of our garden cos it 's a mess but er I 'd have thought he would have taken a picture of yours and sold you one . |
| 15 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |
| 16 | The argument would run that the appointing authority would have seen the clause ( as they always ask to do ) before making the appointment , would have taken a fee for making the appointment , that the arrangement was therefore a contract incorporating the clause about suitability , and that an aggrieved party could sue for breach of that term of the contract . |
| 17 | ‘ She would have taken the cat with her if she 'd done that . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I would have taken the girls . |
| 19 | Those who deny that have only to ask themselves who would have taken the responsibility had we failed . |
| 20 | Eochaid would have taken the monks with him for safety , and those of Muthill as well . |
| 21 | It would have been better to hold the debate during the day , when television coverage would have taken the views of hon. Members to a wider public . |
| 22 | Burglars would have taken the video . |
| 23 | The result might be very different if the injured person acted on the advice of a quack , or if , considering all the advice he had received no reasonable person would have taken the course he did . |
| 24 | He went on to say that the Met failed in this respect , and it is certainly the case that in the late Sixties some policemen would have taken the evidence with them , later , with a conjuror 's flourish , producing sackfuls of cannabis from behind the furniture with cries of ‘ Hullo John ! |
| 25 | Without that perception , the US would have taken the sanctions route alone , and the outcome of the crisis would have been very different . |
| 26 | Voltaire wrote satirically about the British arranging to shoot an admiral to encourage the others , but probably most Englishmen at the time would have taken the idea seriously . |
| 27 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 28 | There was many 's a tramp that would have taken the A nine then but this one in particular and he was very very fond of him and he would ask when he was around to that he would get over to see him . |
| 29 | I know my husband would have taken the door down , and used a plane , but this way there was no mess . , . |
| 30 | He was sufficiently well-informed to be able to declare that it was a scandal that the town lacked any kind of orchestra , whereas Clara would have taken the lack of it as a simple act of God . |