Example sentences of "it take [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new system continues the services provided by its predecessor , but it takes advantage of the latest developments in technology to provide a high quality service in the most cost-effective way . |
| 2 | It takes decisions by majority vote . |
| 3 | However , the Lappish people are more concerned about the plight of their traditional fishing waters , the loss of which is forever , much longer than it takes contamination from Russia to decay . |
| 4 | It is staffed by three fulltime teachers , and its aims are similar to the Arbour Project in that it provides continuing education , it takes girls through their pregnancies physically , educationally , emotionally and socially to produce healthy babies and mothers , and it tries to help girls achieve a level of maturity for taking on responsible parenthood . |
| 5 | Researched and piloted in France , Italy , and Spain , in both private and state-sector tourism schools , it takes students from low-intermediate through to intermediate level , and reflects the latest developments in the world of tourism . |
| 6 | It takes viewers through a variety of business transactions and social encounters which demonstrate language functions . |
| 7 | This is a classic finding in the history of any kind of innovation — that it takes challenges to beliefs to achieve a breakthrough . |
| 8 | This Community law is applied through the courts of the Member States , where it takes precedence over any national law ; Martin Howe again : |
| 9 | It takes precedence over any conflicting common law and is superior to the conventions of the Constitutions and to works of authority . |
| 10 | It takes precedence of any other matter . |
| 11 | It takes properties off the housing market and might encoureage it to pick up . |
| 12 | Fear is an ugly four-letter word yet , at times it takes hold of all of us . |
| 13 | They are found in tiny quantities ; it takes 5000lbs of Damask rose petals to make 1lb of Rose Otto essential oil . |
| 14 | Because it takes notice of him . |
| 15 | It takes effort on the part of the parent but can sometimes help them see that their child is eating more than they thought or eating at the wrong times of day . |
| 16 | Why do not the Government set up — as the Labour party will when it takes office in a few months — a national crime prevention council to co-ordinate the work of all the Departments of state in crime prevention ? |
| 17 | It takes months for inmates to be that open , back on A wing they find it hard to understand . |
| 18 | often , it takes months of phone calls before you have completed your ‘ hit list ’ , and I would suggest that whoever takes on this job should have a very carefree and optimistic attitude . |
| 19 | It takes months of painstaking work to grow the perfect orchid , and the potential prizewinners have to be kept cool and dark to stop them fading . |
| 20 | ‘ It takes months of practice to master the art . ’ |
| 21 | Further , by wills and settlements , provision may be made for those who may come into existence at a future time , subject to the rule against perpetuities , which forbids any disposition which is not certain to take effect ( if it takes effect at all ) within lives in being and twenty-one years afterwards ; but a life in being includes a person en ventre sa mere at the time when the will or settlement takes effect . |
| 22 | And it 's , it takes photographs of it . |
| 23 | It takes strength of character to admit one needs help . |
| 24 | because it takes nitrogen from the air and puts it back into the soil |
| 25 | It takes time for this to develop and for people to recognise that they are partly responsible . |
| 26 | Certainly , it takes time for workers and employers to react to changing conditions in the labour market . |
| 27 | It takes time for UV to penetrate all the way through the etch-resist , so a thicker coating of sprayed-on resist will require a longer period of UV exposure . |
| 28 | In youth we struggle to match fashionable expectations against our own shadowy sense of self ; it takes time for a secure identity to be born out of this . |
| 29 | The vector graphics are well-executed , although it takes time for your eyes to adjust to what 's going on . |
| 30 | It takes time for any new middle class to realise that there is more to life than the sudden enjoyment of prosperity . |