Example sentences of "it take [art] certain [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's a celebration of the best of a woman when a designer makes a great dress , and it takes a certain intelligence to carry it off . |
2 | It takes a certain type of man to do a neighbourhood beat . |
3 | Since it takes a certain time to reach its working temperature and cool down again , it would not be able to follow the changes satisfactorily . |
4 | Two car bombs in Karachi kill 72 and injure 250 ; the authorities blame ‘ saboteurs of foreign origin ’ ( in the presence of such disasters , it takes a certain frivolity to care whether those who perpetrated the act were natives or not ) . |
5 | A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output . |
6 | But I 'm not saying that people are incompetent , but it takes a certain amount |
7 | Because we think we have tamed industrialism we no longer fear it ; but in the age of laissez faire , when the power of the manufacturers seemed unbounded , it took a certain courage to think for oneself and run the risk of appearing ridiculous . |