Example sentences of "it take [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
| 2 | All it takes to give this work a decent hearing is five intelligent and compatible singers , a good deal of rehearsal time , sensitive discussion about the best way of tackling the considerable demands both of the words and the huge span of music , and some recording equipment . |
| 3 | The time it takes to receive local land charge search results varies greatly depending upon the particular local authority and can take between one and four weeks to obtain . |
| 4 | To do that , it assesses the difference in intensity of the sound in each ear and the infinitesimal difference in time that it takes to reach one ear before the other . |
| 5 | The EPA has received considerable criticism concerning the length of time it takes to set such emission standards . |
| 6 | I 'll give you a fair fight if that 's what it takes to cool that hot head of yours . ’ |
| 7 | And you 've had all the time in the world it takes to dial seven digits . |
| 8 | ‘ Lee and Ian have shown they have what it takes to earn first-year professional terms and I 'm delighted they 've agreed to join us . |
| 9 | Drinking with meals the correct way can actually be ‘ slimming ’ , in that it can helpfully add to the time it takes to consume high-fibre meals . |
| 10 | My goodness , how long it takes to write all this , this life of mine . |
| 11 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 12 | Quite apart from introducing the problem of just how you get the document to the bureau in the first place ( we know of people who have extra hard disks for just this purpose ) the time it takes to run such a document through an imagesetter can be significant in the extreme . |
| 13 | ‘ We know how fast food moves through its gut , how much energy it takes to make one post-larval prawn from the day it hatches , and so on . |
| 14 | Not only does the promotion system mean that people who rise to the top are likely to have just those personal characteristics it takes to commit corporate crime , but these are also reinforced by the psychological consequences of success itself , for these too free a person from the moral bind of conventional values . |
| 15 | I want to be a rich young man , if wealth is what it takes to buy this feeling ; a young lord leaving the city after a night of riot … |
| 16 | A telephone call is all it takes to summon one of our team of experts to your doorstep . |
| 17 | They will pay whatever it takes to get Scots crayfish and Dublin Bay prawns into the shops and restaurants in beautiful condition , when no one back home can be bothered . |
| 18 | ‘ You may be prepared to do whatever it takes to get this house , but I 'm prepared to do whatever 's necessary to ensure that Thomas remains in my care . ’ |
| 19 | Thus , you drag the second line indent marker to the right , drop it , and the change happens — all much quicker than it takes to read this sentence . |
| 20 | Right okay so again it 's just a simple idea that shows you an awful lot how long would it take to put that back together ? |
| 21 | So how much would it take to cause tremendous damage in this country — would they need gallons of it or not ? |
| 22 | How many hours does it take to go seven hundred and five miles at forty seven miles per hour ? |
| 23 | How long will it take to make these reductions ? |
| 24 | She felt the light , warm caress of his breath on her cheek as he bent his head and murmured tauntingly , ‘ Just how much heat does it take to melt broken glass ? ’ |
| 25 | So what , he was asked , would it take to keep Third Division football at Feethams next season ? |
| 26 | If a man drinks 6 pints of beer in fairly rapid succession , about how long will it take to clear all the alcohol from his body ? a. 6 hours b. 9 hours c. 11 hours d. 13 hours |
| 27 | One glance was all it took to realise this was one hard nut to crack — his features still completely impassive . |
| 28 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 29 | Let's represent the total time it took to evolve all these breeds of dog from a wolf , by one ordinary walking pace . |
| 30 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |