Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] takes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also takes great care to establish a sense of place . |
| 2 | And it in the Summer which I know it is n't the Summer , in the Summer we just take these well we will cos we have n't had any for the Summer we just takes these panes out and just open them like that in the Summer . |
| 3 | On the Rio Negro in Amazonia it apparently takes 80 years to reach half the mature biomass , suggesting that a return to forest is possible . |
| 4 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 5 | Cable should n't be run under a carpet unless it 's suitably protected — it only takes one stiletto heel to bring your network down ! |
| 6 | Above The vulnerable beauty of Killary harbour : ‘ It only takes one fool to drop a barrel of chemicals , ’ Peter Mantle says , ‘ and we 're all wiped out . ’ |
| 7 | It only takes one lapse and a match can undergo a total transformation — there must be no slip-ups , ’ adds McGrath . |
| 8 | But , it only takes one car ! |
| 9 | ‘ It only takes one fanatic , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said heavily . |
| 10 | There 's an old saying : ‘ It only takes one spark to start a fire . ’ |
| 11 | On the evidence of its showing , SAS/EIS is certainly the kind of tool that will empower decision makers with the ability to study their companies and markets in new ways , with only minimum recall to the services of in-house software engineers — ‘ even a CEO can use this because it only takes one finger , ’ claims Jim Goodnight , SAS chief executive officer . |
| 12 | It only takes one media scare story ( Pill Deaths Quadruple ! ) or one neighbour being suddenly rushed to hospital , to make thousands of women think twice about using a particular form of contraception . |
| 13 | Simply peg out the design , wind on the warp thread and get weaving — it only takes five minutes . |
| 14 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 15 | I mean , if we take this as a game , as you rightly describe it , he only takes these people from th in the first place , to have hostages that he can use as bargaining chips later . |
| 16 | It dries right quick , it just takes that chill off |
| 17 | It normally takes six months from filling out a form to getting permission to emigrate . |
| 18 | It generally takes six months to get a tribunal hearing and it 's FREE . |
| 19 | He normally takes great care to keep us informed of the central part he plays in the worlds of affairs and ideas . |
| 20 | EXCEPT where rocks are heavily cracked or fissured , it usually takes many years for water to find its way down through the soil and the unsaturated zone to the saturated zone of an aquifer . |
| 21 | It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt . |
| 22 | It usually takes several days for the pain to subside , although it can linger for weeks . |
| 23 | Sinclair improved the system by using two heads on a continuous belt but it still takes four passes of each head to create a row of characters . |
| 24 | Yeah , but even with all those things in their favour it still takes fifteen months ? |
| 25 | It hardly takes much decoding to translate this into racial — indeed , not far from racist — terms . |
| 26 | NO MATTER how talented or hardworking you are , if you 're a woman it always takes extra effort and drive to succeed in business . |
| 27 | For example , suppose that airline pilots are paid far more than their transfer earnings , but that it always takes three pilots ( pilot equivalents ) to fly a plane . |
| 28 | He also takes special care not to interpret any of the works in the exhibition ; not even citing them in the catalogue essay . |
| 29 | Er , you can set up these plans to start with a direct debit , which means it probably takes fourteen days to get that sorted with the bank , they 'll allow fourteen days . |
| 30 | It is a tribute to how far we have come already in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we can not predict . |