Example sentences of "take [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 2 | It takes little imagination to see that here is a huge resource for the study of consumer and retailing habits , but if we follow the practice suggested recently by some archivists and take the network with its constituent data flows and data tables , software resources and analytical outputs as a whole , as the document itself , this is a major site for examining the cultural effect of these systems . |
| 3 | It takes little imagination to foretell the likely consequences of just one peg disintegrating and flinging its spring or its free arm into the cutter gap during a pass ; or the possible knock-on effect(s) on the rest of the makeshift assembly and the astonished operator if this should happen . |
| 4 | Tabel has received too little credit in the standard literature — Hubbard dismisses him as some sort of shadowy figure and takes little trouble to describe the 1721 harpsichord . |
| 5 | Her husband is having an on-off fling which he does not openly admit , but takes little trouble to disguise |
| 6 | CAN anyone explain why a mail-order figurine takes eight days to arrive from Marseilles in France , but when I order a similar item from Canterbury — just 15 miles up the A2 from here — they advise me to allow 28 days for delivery . |
| 7 | What takes eight months to organise , lasts eight days and takes Bristol and the South West by storm ? |
| 8 | It 's God who takes that initiative to withdraw from seeking you . |
| 9 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |
| 10 | The table takes 70 hours to make . |
| 11 | which takes 522 pages to outline for the novice how to modify behaviour and when it 's not likely to work perfectly . |
| 12 | The British plant takes 53 hours to turn out each car , the Spanish factory 30 hours . |
| 13 | It takes forty minutes to walk from Dhang station to the farm along a road which starts as a stony track then turns to mud . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The ANC takes this opportunity to convey its heartfelt condolences to the parents , relatives and community of Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | However , it takes some skill to identify them . |
| 18 | All the aermacchis are destroyed , so he takes some marines to make a reconnaissance across the island , his objective Goose Green . |
| 19 | It takes some imagination to share the contradictions , the unrealised hopes , the might-have-beens , of the past . |
| 20 | Understandably , the extent of the miracle takes some time to penetrate the minds of some of the Israelite people . |
| 21 | This is because , after a sunbird has sucked out the nectar from a flower , the flower takes some time to replenish its nectaries . |
| 22 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There have been earlier references to the changing and elastic notion of priorities which takes some time to come to terms with . |
| 27 | Loud noise from passing vehicles is doubly unwelcome because , not only does it drown out the wanted sound , but it also causes the camcorder 's automatic gain control to lower the recording level ; this generally takes some seconds to return to normal after the disturbance , during which time the wanted sound is not recorded properly . |
| 28 | Dear Horace , I think I may be a bit late with this as here in the antipodes , and especially being some way down a circulation list , your column takes some weeks to reach me . |
| 29 | The kiln , which is fired about once a week , takes 2 days to heat and cool down . |
| 30 | A smaller 9.6 volt model is also offered , but this has only a 330mm ( 13in ) cutting capacity , and takes 12 hours to recharge . |