Example sentences of "it can take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at 50°s ; F , it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut , and much below that temperature , digestion ceases , Koi fed on a warm winter 's day will then have to pass a cold winter night , when a gutful of even low-protein pellets can turn into a pathogenic sludge causing liver and kidney failure . |
| 2 | If some is present ( bearing in mind it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut ) , then continue with sinking wheatgerm . |
| 3 | It can take 10 minutes to get off the train . ’ |
| 4 | But it can take 10 years for a material to get on the list while officials develop a standard , which specifies physical and chemical properties of materials . |
| 5 | Once a laser has put molecules into a repulsive , electronically excited state , it can take 100–1,000 femoseconds for the species to dissociate into independent fragments . |
| 6 | There 's another situation , the hard news interview , which again is often on radio though it can take other forms and using other forms of the media , which Liz 'll talk about in a moment and I wo n't say more at this stage . |
| 7 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 8 | It can take many forms and should not be underestimated . |
| 9 | But it can take many months and , as Wendy realised , the longer she waited , the harder it would be to trace Eva . |
| 10 | In the earliest phase of a mental disorder , relatives feel puzzled and bewildered by what is happening , and it can take many months or even years before deteriorating social function gives way to overt symptoms which can be clearly interpreted as mental illness . |
| 11 | It can take many ejaculations to clear sperm already in tube . |
| 12 | The Swindon Works only closed in 1986 and since it can take many years for asbestos to affect people 's health , she expects to be dealing with similar cases well into the next century . |
| 13 | It can take greater risks than normal government departments would do . |
| 14 | Consider this : it can take 50 hours to re-key one megabyte 's worth of data . |
| 15 | It can take 3 days to disappear and is followed by complete peeling . |
| 16 | It can take several minutes for the Goblin to pick his target , at which point he folds his wings back and starts to plummet , yelling wildly as the speed of his descent drives his small Goblin brain wild . |
| 17 | It can take several hours to kill an entire whale group which may number several hundred individuals . ’ |
| 18 | It can take several days of fine weather to dry out . |
| 19 | As we have already seen , it can take several years for a product to come on stream , let alone break even in reported accounts ; seven or more years is possible in some industries ( see Tomkins et al. , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | The ponderous patent application process seems to be unsuited to a fast- moving technology as it can take several years from initial application before a patent is finally granted . |
| 21 | There are particular muscles which seem to carry most of the burden , and it can take several sessions to help them become relaxed . |
| 22 | All three deposit their surveys at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex , but the data arrives in a form that can be quite hard to read , and it can take several months for the Archive to be able to supply even small amounts of the raw data in a form usable on most college computers . |
| 23 | Can do , it can take several months before it comes out . |
| 24 | It can take large numbers of rabbits that live above the ground in dense woodland and it can do that same job in wooded areas where ferreting is not allowed because of other interests . |
| 25 | Since form and function are related to living things , when the information in an illustration is incorrect it can take more work in the long run to get the thing to look right . |
| 26 | It can take some comfort from the rise of 7.5 per cent in its vote and from the fact that it came second to Labour in so many seats and is at last beginning to nibble at Labour 's huge majorities in the Central Belt . |
| 27 | This bringing of the people of God back to personal thankfulness for their place in Christ is one of the vital functions of worship , and it can take some time . |
| 28 | When friends fall out the mess can be considerable and it can take some time for the wounds to heal . |
| 29 | She says women should n't be worried about the operation itself , though it can take some time to recover . |
| 30 | As it can take considerable time to effect the transfer of overseas funds to the University account , you are strongly advised to make arrangements well in advance . |