Example sentences of "[that] [pron] takes [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
2 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
3 | I was questioned about this in recent years when I visited the Camp during one of my lecture rounds to the ATC in the Highlands , but I only add this yarn to illustrate that it takes all kinds to make any air force station , and I am sure our childrens ' children will be told and the tale will no doubt be embroidered to suit the occasion . |
4 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
5 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
6 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
7 | Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination . |
8 | Check that he takes any medicines prescribed for him correctly . |