Example sentences of "it take the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are a little smaller , club-shaped and covered with a shiny brown fluid which neither hardens nor evaporates , but remains liquid for the three or four weeks it takes the eggs higher up the twig to hatch . |
| 2 | King cobras curl around their pile of eggs , encircling it with their coils , and crocodiles stay alongside their nest of decaying vegetation for the two months or so that it takes the eggs within to hatch . |
| 3 | And it takes the stains out of no , can it not get paint stains ? |
| 4 | That 's a look we 'll see emerging from the dull , old chrysalis that was Renault design in the '70s and '80s , when it takes the wraps off its first really new-age car in two years ' time . |
| 5 | It is usually possible to read subtitles in less time than it takes the characters to complete the exchange . |
| 6 | ( Smart , 1959 ; Armstrong , 1968 , 1980 ; Lewis , 1966 , 1972 ) What is distinctive about this view is not that it takes the episodes of consciousness to stand in such causal relations . |
| 7 | When you believe that you are guilty of all the pain caused by your own pregnancy , birth and subsequent existence , then the burden really does bend your back , and it takes the labours of Hercules to try and straighten it . |
| 8 | The compensation deal will cost the government an estimated A$100m and involves Canberra waiving airport landing charges for as long as it takes the airlines to recoup their losses from keeping about 21,000 non-pilot employees on their staff during the dispute . |
| 9 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 10 | Wool is the most suitable fibre for natural dyes , since it takes the colours evenly . |
| 11 | In particular , it attempts to assess how rational decision-makers will act in certain situations : ‘ It takes the tools of economics and applies them to the material of politics . |
| 12 | How long did it take the pupils to join in the activity ? 3 . |
| 13 | It took the Marines a remarkably short time to set up defensible emplacements on the wide dockside , before Mortimer sent his men into the city , ordering small groups to leapfrog each other in order to secure the university and consulates . |
| 14 | It took the women 's movement to show how we had colluded in ignoring slights , insults and restraints . |
| 15 | After that , it took the agents four days to extract a confession from their prisoner on the USS Butte before turning him over to the US Navy for the 13 hour 10 minute flight to Washington , a new solo record for a carrier-based aircraft carrying a second-hand car dealer . |
| 16 | It took the Belgians six hours to rush to the defence of the Red Cross compound and by that time the fighting was over . |
| 17 | It took the players ' bargaining committee less than three hours to reject what they considered an ultimatum . |
| 18 | The survey by the National Consumer Council among almost 1,000 consumers found widespread dissatisfaction with the time it took the ombudsmen to settle disputes . |
| 19 | Once again , however , it took the fears engendered by the Boer War to arouse widespread interest in the issue . |
| 20 | There had been a fairground at South Shore in the Nineties , but it took the efforts of W. G. Bean to create an American-style amusement park . |
| 21 | It took the buses nearly 15 minutes to inch through the steel gates , two hours after the day shift had been due to start . |
| 22 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 23 | Hot water was used to soften the material before it was cut , so it took the undulations at full volume , and there was a very large soundbox for replay , so the system was louder than its competitors ( 46 — see also page 4 ) . |
| 24 | It took the urgings of the mob of photographers to get him to raise his glass of fizz higher than his chest . |
| 25 | It took the police and the soldiers to turn some of us out . |
| 26 | Although one of the sons suffered severe injuries such as a black eye and damage to his kidney and spent 5 days in hospital it took the police over 6 weeks to decide whether to charge anyone . |
| 27 | It took the banks nearly two years to retaliate with interest bearing accounts of their own in an attempt to stem the flood of accounts deserting to building societies . |
| 28 | Slaying Orthodox Christians , Jews and Moslems with great impartiality on their way , it took the crusaders two years to reach Jerusalem . |
| 29 | It took the Venetians until 1420 to win control of all the territory promised to them by Ladislas , who in fact never realised his ambition to wear the crown of Hungary . |