Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 32 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 33 | It takes two sides to make war . |
| 34 | It takes two months to make one costume ; the machines are old and Russians do n't know how to work . |
| 35 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 36 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 37 | It takes all types , not clones to contribute . |
| 38 | STUDENTS : IT TAKES ALL KINDS |
| 39 | I was questioned about this in recent years when I visited the Camp during one of my lecture rounds to the ATC in the Highlands , but I only add this yarn to illustrate that it takes all kinds to make any air force station , and I am sure our childrens ' children will be told and the tale will no doubt be embroidered to suit the occasion . |
| 40 | It takes all sorts . |
| 41 | ‘ It takes all sorts to make a team . |
| 42 | WELL , IT TAKES ALL SORTS . |
| 43 | It takes all sorts to make a clientele . |
| 44 | ‘ Well , I suppose it takes all sorts to make a world . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ It takes all sorts … ’ |
| 46 | , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd . |
| 47 | It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture . |
| 48 | er if you 're out of work you 're it takes small businesses of . |
| 49 | This is a large monkey-eating species of tropical forests ( Praed & Grant , 1962 ) , but in more open country it takes small antelopes and hyraxes . |
| 50 | I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across . |
| 51 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy . |
| 54 | Well the women times the hours , it takes six times eight women hours to do this . |
| 55 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 56 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 57 | No it takes ten times as much . |
| 58 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
| 59 | Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination . |
| 60 | It takes 12 Britons to do the work of nine Germans or of eight Japanese , which suggests that a good many more redundancies will have to be declared before British industry is able to compete on the world markets . |