Example sentences of "it take some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , it takes some skill to identify them .
2 And every time a diatom is taken out of the plankton , it takes some N and P with it .
3 It takes some sort of public document for people to get you out of a rut . ‘
4 It takes some imagination to share the contradictions , the unrealised hopes , the might-have-beens , of the past .
5 After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength .
6 It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three .
7 It takes some people a time to realise that the inside facelets are never seen , to see that all the faces can turn and that there are several distinct types of pieces .
8 ‘ Awful how it takes some people . ’
9 It takes some nerve , and it seems as though I am eradicating what I have , but the white ‘ sinks ’ and through practice it is possible to judge the correct strength .
10 It takes some weeks for the normal bowel bacteria to adjust .
11 A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter .
12 It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial .
13 Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences .
14 We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off .
15 I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’
16 The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’
17 As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations .
18 Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’
19 It takes some time , and a few false tries ( you may well ask why a solitary hoopoe bird is even now patrolling the Solent with the sacred shamir-stone in its beak ) but , eventually , the proper chapter and verse comes back to me .
20 It takes some time , you may conclude , to become dark blue . ’
21 He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time
22 But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets .
23 That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating .
24 ‘ No , it took some hours before we dragged the body from beneath a mound of soggy corpses .
25 He returned the phone to its table and slid the notebook into his pocket ; it took some forcing , but it went .
26 It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) .
27 It took some effort for Charles not to lose heart .
28 It took some effort to stay upright with such variations in terrain .
29 Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department .
30 It took some balls to beard the Colonel in his lair .
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