Example sentences of "it did not take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny . |
| 2 | First , it did not take all the development value . |
| 3 | But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity . |
| 4 | As Erica Macdonald admits , it did not take much to make the girls steer away . |
| 5 | It did not take much to reason that international capitalism had failed and that a new order must replace it . |
| 6 | My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’ |
| 7 | Overall the 1986 Act made many detailed changes , it extended and rationalized means tests , but it did not take social security in the radical new direction that ‘ negative income tax ’ or ‘ social dividend ’ advocates were suggesting . |
| 8 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 9 | It was n't much of a joke , but then it did n't take much to make Karen laugh . |
| 10 | But it seemed the doctor could persuade Sarah to do anything , for it did n't take much argument to convince her that it was wrong to be ungracious . |
| 11 | It did n't take much to persuade her to come and nothing would have prevented me from seeing precisely what it was that had turned my schoolfriend into what the Daily Express called ‘ a phenomena ’ . |
| 12 | It did n't take much to move Dreadnought . " |
| 13 | It did n't take much imagination to supply another word in place of ‘ protegée ’ . |
| 14 | The exhibition 's open to all , but it did n't take much to persuade Scotland Today 's Patsi MacKenzie to wander along for a preview . |
| 15 | It did n't take much thinking about . |
| 16 | Then , realising that it did n't take much for this man to get to her , she made sterner efforts to get herself more of one piece and , returning her hand to her lap , she drew out of nowhere , ‘ Not everybody can wear contact lenses , ’ and added for a touch of authenticity , ‘ I ca n't myself . ’ |
| 17 | It did n't take much anaesthetic to render the exhausted patient unconscious , and , as Sophie made the first incision , she put aside her dislike of being critically watched by her professional rival and concentrated on her life-saving task . |
| 18 | It did n't take much to get him back into proper work ; the pleasant surprise was that the three weeks holiday had done him a lot of good . |
| 19 | There was quite a run on the unfashionable theatre 's box office but it did n't take old Fred by surprise . |