Example sentences of "but it take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 2 | But it takes two to get pregnant , and it is just as important to educate boys about contraception . |
| 3 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 4 | It 's difficult to tell which wines will win , and easy to say when wine is good , but it takes that little bit extra to make it a winner . |
| 5 | But it takes little to say , and doubtless contributes to the ‘ feel-good ’ factor all round . |
| 6 | But it takes resolute , technologically aware safety management and regulation to maintain them . |
| 7 | But it takes hundreds of thousands of years for these processes to turn the sediments into carbonate rock , and meanwhile biological changes , it now seems , play a key role in deterring the fluctuating carbon dioxide balance . |
| 8 | Roses are naturally at their most beautiful in summer , but it takes year-long care to ensure they maintain their glory . |
| 9 | in Southampton and he said we can give you next day this , they wo n't , they wo n't enter into it , we can give you next day delivery but it takes ten or twenty days . |
| 10 | There were 2 attacks early on , but it takes stronger stuff than this to beat Grimsby . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Any man can be unfaithful , but it takes special circumstances to write a letter like that . ’ |
| 13 | It gained terrific publicity , but it takes more than column inches to sell records , and I am sure that Elvis 's continuing success has more to do with talent . |
| 14 | ‘ Coppers , aye , but it takes more than coppers to cart them there ; they wo n't come and pick 'em up . ’ |
| 15 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 16 | But it took all of a week 's ration of time to restore the plot to its pre-holiday weed-free state . |
| 17 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 18 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 19 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 20 | The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges . |
| 21 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 22 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 23 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 24 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 25 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 26 | but it took five years |
| 27 | As early as 1872 , he was proposing the formation of a national body for deaf people , but it took long and persistent efforts on his part before the National Deaf and Dumb Society was founded in 1879 . |
| 28 | But it took some getting at , the core of the physical jungle , the dark and deepest recess of organic shame . |
| 29 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 30 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |