Example sentences of "it took a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven minutes before the interval Duncan Ferguson smashed a header against the crossbar as the home side piled on the pressure , then it took a diving header from Grant Tierney to take a David Robertson cross off Mark Hateley 's toe . |
| 2 | It took a rare combination of management failure , over-ambition and bad luck to bring such a business to its knees . |
| 3 | From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong . |
| 4 | Do n't ask me how I kept going for so long , but it took a superhuman effort . |
| 5 | It took a five-year tussle with the Luftfahrt Bundesamt , the German body which sets aeronautical regulations , before the cylinders were approved for use in hot-air balloons . |
| 6 | It took a hundred and fifty lorries to transport it to its home in Swindon . |
| 7 | It took a hundred firefighters more than four hours to bring it under control . |
| 8 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 9 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 10 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 11 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 12 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 13 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 14 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 15 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 16 | It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth . |
| 17 | It took a mere two minutes for them to open the scoring through Tracy Fry 's fine solo run , and by the time Helen Bray shot home from the spot with nine minutes remaining , Wimbledon had been reduced to chasing shadows . |
| 18 | Whizzing down the centre of Lake Rotoroa , as beautiful from water level as from the dizzy heights , it took a mere half hour to the park ranger 's jetty . |
| 19 | A horrible weakness seemed to have invaded her limbs and it took a supreme effort to drag her attention back to the conversation . |
| 20 | In fact it took a revolutionary medical technique for Ian to be able to play again , but only for the Palace Reserves , for the first team were , at that time at least , more than holding their own in Division One . |
| 21 | It was not only the student movement that suffered in this way ; the black movement in the US , especially when it took a revolutionary form in the Black Panther Party , was violently suppressed , and in Latin America democratic and radical movements were destroyed , and military dictatorships were installed , often with American help , as in Chile . |
| 22 | Everyone knew that the rules were being stretched , but it took a skilled operator to persuade an official to ignore evidence that was blatantly paraded before him . |
| 23 | It took a three-minute phone call to the boiler manufacturers to discover that chimneys with cross sections larger than 100sq in needed metal liners , otherwise flue gases would condense on the sides and penetrate the walls . |
| 24 | It took a fuller self-knowledge to do something effective about them . |
| 25 | It took a healthy five mile walk for Elaine Ruxton and five colleagues from Douglas Reyburn to raise £200 for charity . |
| 26 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 27 | As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi . |
| 28 | In 1990 it took a major step forward with The Guinness Encyclopedia — a family reference book for the nineties . |
| 29 | It took a major effort on her part not to narrow the gap between them still further , but she managed to stay immobile . |
| 30 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |