Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It takes real guts to carry off such a successful fraud . |
| 3 | This involves a different type of responsibility as well , and to accept it takes real courage . |
| 4 | I feel , however , that it takes insufficient account of the natural caution and pragmatism of the British people , which was admirably reflected in the negotiating approach of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and his colleagues in the Cabinet . |
| 5 | It takes regular VHS tapes and offers a 24-hour timer facility . |
| 6 | It takes long hours in the laboratory to convert deadly greenery into a possible lifesaver . |
| 7 | Roses are naturally at their most beautiful in summer , but it takes year-long care to ensure they maintain their glory . |
| 8 | A second technique is deconcentration — although functions may be departmentalised in a single central government department , it may nevertheless be desirable for administration to be dispersed from the geographical centre and into the regions and localities where it takes actual effect ‘ on the ground ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 11 | As Booker Noe Jr , the master distiller at Jim Beam , puts it : ‘ It takes good Bourbon at least four years to get to know the inside of the barrel . ’ |
| 12 | We ca n't do this on our own — it takes good planning and communications , the right data , money and , above all , teamwork . ’ |
| 13 | He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better . |
| 14 | If you want to be a great player , it takes extra effort . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , it takes hardened travellers a while to fully relax , but in the end all succumb to the magic . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | It takes perverse joy in getting hard at the wrong time , causing its owner no end of embarrassment and inconvenience . |
| 18 | er if you 're out of work you 're it takes small businesses of . |
| 19 | This is a large monkey-eating species of tropical forests ( Praed & Grant , 1962 ) , but in more open country it takes small antelopes and hyraxes . |
| 20 | It takes great patience to build up a new technological business . |
| 21 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 22 | It takes great discipline and hours and hours of practice to perfect just one kata and many beginners soon lose interest . |
| 23 | It takes great concentration on their part , and for weeks ahead their Teacher Phyl Bailey carefully guides them through rehearsals . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | The points of choice have to be put to other people and it takes patient consultation before everyone can agree about the management plan for a school in which social , academic , moral and community developments all have their place . |
| 27 | Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | All these mistakes are only too easy to make , and it takes constant effort to keep oneself up to the mark . |
| 30 | 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 . |