Example sentences of "it take some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it takes some skill to identify them . |
| 2 | It takes some sort of public document for people to get you out of a rut . ‘ |
| 3 | It takes some imagination to share the contradictions , the unrealised hopes , the might-have-beens , of the past . |
| 4 | It takes some nerve , and it seems as though I am eradicating what I have , but the white ‘ sinks ’ and through practice it is possible to judge the correct strength . |
| 5 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 6 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
| 7 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 8 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 9 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 10 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 11 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 12 | Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’ |
| 13 | It takes some time , and a few false tries ( you may well ask why a solitary hoopoe bird is even now patrolling the Solent with the sacred shamir-stone in its beak ) but , eventually , the proper chapter and verse comes back to me . |
| 14 | It takes some time , you may conclude , to become dark blue . ’ |
| 15 | He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time |
| 16 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 17 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 18 | He returned the phone to its table and slid the notebook into his pocket ; it took some forcing , but it went . |
| 19 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 20 | It took some effort for Charles not to lose heart . |
| 21 | It took some effort to stay upright with such variations in terrain . |
| 22 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 23 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 24 | Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up . |
| 25 | It took some doing , but father Francis managed to blow out all one hundred candles on his cake . |
| 26 | It took some courage to do so . |
| 27 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 28 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 29 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
| 30 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |