Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We ca n't do this on our own — it takes good planning and communications , the right data , money and , above all , teamwork . ’ |
| 32 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 33 | I have also suggested that although research is a key component of professional practice , it takes many forms , and the various types of research I have described feed professional knowledge in many ways . |
| 34 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 35 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 36 | Discovering it takes many months . |
| 37 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 38 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 39 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 40 | It takes 10 minutes to reach the arch , slogging through the filth and scum . |
| 41 | He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better . |
| 42 | It takes little knowledge of history to appreciate that relatively few of the battles recorded in history have had a decisive effect upon the future of those involved . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | While the Dutch government is actively planning to reduce the number of hospital beds , particularly those for long-stay patients , it takes little notice of the reality of mental health care in The Netherlands , cherishing various misconceptions regarding institutionalism and community care . |
| 46 | These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference . |
| 47 | It takes little effort of the imagination to put oneself in Theo 's shoes , and feel the grey , correct , judicious side of his character flinching from the terrifying sincerity of Vincent 's outpourings . |
| 48 | He says , no it takes thirty days to get here . |
| 49 | If you want to be a great player , it takes extra effort . ’ |
| 50 | Indeed , it takes hardened travellers a while to fully relax , but in the end all succumb to the magic . |
| 51 | ‘ Over-involved ’ is a derogatory label still used by professionals to describe anxious , supportive relatives , yet it takes extraordinary judgment and sensitivity to manage a close relative 's abnormal beliefs and behaviour in a way which neither colludes with pathological beliefs nor alienates the sufferer . |
| 52 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 53 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 54 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 55 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 56 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 57 | Sometimes it takes two minutes and sometimes it takes twenty . |
| 58 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 59 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 60 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |