Example sentences of "it take courage " in BNC.

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1 It takes courage to execute someone , to put a bullet through their brains , or blow them to pieces with a bomb .
2 The kind of limitations imposed by restrictions of full-time caring are not normal to someone in midlife but it takes courage to change the pattern once the need to be restricted has passed .
3 The voices are few not only because it takes courage to speak out against the tide of opinion , but because few can see the issue in a wider context and take the longer perspective .
4 Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings , and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it .
5 Clough has deserved the plaudits for sticking to his football principles but , as he knows , it takes courage to play your football at the top of the League too .
6 It takes courage to speak out when one is well known .
7 Now it takes courage to be that sloppily sentimental .
8 IT TAKES courage not to succumb to peer pressure .
9 It takes courage to play new music at rural music clubs , where , with declining membership , patrons are less likely to entertain risk .
10 It took courage to do this as I was fearful the ants might swarm over the spade and run all the way up the handle to my hands .
11 In 1944 it took courage to write so favourably about Pound ; and it may even be that Phyllis Bottome foresaw , and was trying to guard against , the peril that Pound would be in as soon as hostilities should be over .
12 In the present climate in Southern Africa , it took courage .
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