Example sentences of "[adv] takes a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should replace it , but usually it only takes a bit of tinkering to get it going again . |
| 2 | Below that , it sounds more like a traditional diesel , and it does lack response at times , but it only takes a bit of getting used to . |
| 3 | It only takes a couple of minutes before the flysheet is in place . |
| 4 | The whole package only takes a couple of days to master , claims the company , and it will set you back £449 . |
| 5 | It only takes a couple of players to have mediocre starts for them and they will be down there and lose confidence . |
| 6 | However , with BBC BASIC you can turn to a particular character in a file an the tedium only takes a couple of seconds , so it 's well worth doing . |
| 7 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 8 | It only takes a current of a few nanoamps to develop enough voltage to break down the insulation and make a hole in the silicon . |
| 9 | It only takes a visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Japan , for example , and we 're inundated with Japanese tourists in Britain . |
| 10 | What is certain is that actual copulation only takes a matter of ten or fifteen seconds , though it may be repeated twenty or more times within twenty-four hours and one hundred times within three or four days . |
| 11 | In the case of acid Tyrode 's the process only takes a matter of seconds , the zona swells and then thins and it is advisable to remove the embryos to warm M2 + BSA ( Table 5 ) before the zona is dissolved completely . |
| 12 | That 's it , my short movie is complete , and , once the actors and backgrounds have been sorted out in their respective editors , it only takes a matter of ten minutes to assemble the final movie . |
| 13 | On a good day , it only takes a glimpse of blue sky or a tree in blossom to make me feel full of the joys of spring and in love with life . |
| 14 | The mowing used to take a week , now it just takes a couple of days . |
| 15 | The guy did it know what I mean , but just takes a hell of a lot longer to mix like . |
| 16 | Just takes a lot of . |
| 17 | Le fair-play ( which already takes a hyphen in French ) becomes le fairplay , and le blue-jean ( which has already lost its s ) becomes le bluejean . |
| 18 | His left leg is almost totally stiff , and he usually takes a stick with him when he leaves the house . |
| 19 | Mrs Woolf presented the issue primarily as one of access to justice , explaining that incorporation would short-circuit the lengthy process of taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg [ which usually takes a minimum of five years ] . |
| 20 | ‘ The station director always takes a nap at this time of the day . ’ |
| 21 | In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong … |
| 22 | A section on television covers both state-owned and private broadcasting and programme-making , and the author also takes a look at script-writing and development . |
| 23 | It also takes a shot at Sun 's December 31 , 1992 deadline as not being enough time . |
| 24 | This not only creates body but also takes a lot of the hard work out of blow-drying as styling very wet hair has little effect . |
| 25 | Road maintenance now takes a quarter of the roads ' budget , compared with roughly 10 per cent as recently as the middle 1970s . |
| 26 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 27 | This has brought considerable benefits to us ; a return that took weeks to produce now takes a matter of minutes . |
| 28 | The championship now takes a break until September with Ewing/McCracken on 31 points , McCann/Murray on 29 and Fletcher/Erwin on 28 . |
| 29 | In it , the young Anglo- Asian hero , Karim , engages in some heavy petting with a white male school friend , then takes a breather in the garden , where his Asian father is making love to his friend 's single- breasted mother ( cancer has claimed the other breast ) . |
| 30 | Lotus then takes a copy of the file that 's in the memory and overwrites the one that 's on the disk , the only time you change what 's on the disk . |