Example sentences of "take [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes careful study to confirm whether a particular sex difference is indeed maintained by male competition or female choice ; but the considerable evidence now available suggests that Darwin was essentially correct . |
| 2 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 3 | It is accurate , in aspiration , and The Archers takes serious trouble to get things right over the sowing and harvesting of crops . |
| 4 | It takes real determination to pack all the country house thriller cliches you can think of into half an hour , but TVS and Ian Stuart Black managed it in House of Glass ( ITV ) , an Appointment With Fear try-out for a post-franchise series . |
| 5 | ‘ It takes real guts to carry off such a successful fraud . |
| 6 | All these mistakes are only too easy to make , and it takes constant effort to keep oneself up to the mark . |
| 7 | Scamander in Homer takes human form to fight Achilles , and there is nothing in the least improbable in the personification of rivers in fifth-century art ; indeed there are almost certain examples on coins . |
| 8 | It takes great patience to build up a new technological business . |
| 9 | She wears a pink suede jacket with a studded fringe which she takes great care to hang . |
| 10 | Streep grabs the opportunity to mock such concerns with undisguised relish , providing one of the best comic performances of her career , while Hawn seems curiously ill at ease and takes great care to show us she remains in superb bodily nick . |
| 11 | The Royal Navy takes great care to make sure that job and training details are explained fully to everyone . |
| 12 | She also takes great care to establish a sense of place . |
| 13 | He normally takes great care to keep us informed of the central part he plays in the worlds of affairs and ideas . |
| 14 | Although he feels that the view from the dining-room of the new house will be relatively unimportant , he takes great pains to render it interesting , if not allegoric ( Fig. 24 ) . |
| 15 | The text maintains insistently that Jesus 's rightful heir was his brother James , and takes great pains to argue that Simon Peter never in fact ‘ defected ’ to Pauline thought . |
| 16 | It takes visual sensitivity to realise that a meandering medieval street is quite different from the traffic engineers ' meandering street and this is why the consultants ' perspective drawings look so horribly wrong . |
| 17 | Roses are naturally at their most beautiful in summer , but it takes year-long care to ensure they maintain their glory . |
| 18 | It takes considerable experience to judge correctly when and how much power should be delegated . |
| 19 | The determination of whether a fabric is grain- or mud-supported otherwise takes considerable experience to determine from thin sections , which are essentially two-dimensional . |
| 20 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 21 | The best rock attempts to make society better , even if it takes gross self-laceration to get to that point … |
| 22 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 23 | ‘ Why is it , ’ he asks rhetorically , ‘ that musicians in general do n't like to play Berliozz ? they themselves have told me it takes fierce discipline to play the music in true ensemble ; it takes a lot of rehearsal to sound fluent at the tempos Berlioz often requires . |
| 24 | Experiences , they argued , are identical with brain states ; but when someone is conscious of his experiences he is not conscious of his brain as such : it takes modern science to tell us that consciousness is a state of the brain . |
| 25 | ‘ The Labour Party must produce policies which convince voters that their own prosperity depends on a government which takes active responsibility to promote a strong economy and that their own security — and that of their families — is best advanced by a government which works for the welfare of the whole community . ’ |
| 26 | Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination . |
| 27 | As compared with a ‘ profit maximisation within the law ’ regime , this may in some areas lead to outcomes which are more efficient from a social point of view , as where a company takes voluntary action to internalise external costs . |
| 28 | It takes intelligent illumination to peer through the fog generated by so much detail . |
| 29 | Probably most such birds possess more powerful navigational skills , such as those we shall discuss shortly for pigeons , but it takes special experiments to demonstrate the fact . |
| 30 | Any man can be unfaithful , but it takes special circumstances to write a letter like that . ’ |