Example sentences of "it takes [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes either a flat battery ( MN1203 ) , three AA batteries ( MN1500 ) with a round cell adaptor E06 , or a Petzl E55 rechargeable battery . |
| 2 | Over half of that can be eliminated by buying British , so marketing can produce considerable improvement and it takes on a new and dramatic urgency . |
| 3 | Clearly it takes on a further significance in the context of the discussion in this paper . |
| 4 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |
| 5 | Obviously , when sport offers itself as one of the few accessible routes away from deprivation , as it was to the early slaves , it takes on an attractive quality . |
| 6 | While the first group of dogs feeds — it takes just a few seconds for them to finish the bowls , right down to the lick clean — I huff on my fingers , more hopefully than knowingly . |
| 7 | On the tips it takes just a few years . |
| 8 | It takes just a few seconds to alter CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to make these changes . |
| 9 | It takes just a few seconds , but it gives horses better security for life . |
| 10 | Instead it takes up the double aspect , Januslike posture of any interpretation . |
| 11 | For most materials — like iron and stone — it takes only a tiny fraction of a calorie to raise the temperature by one degree C. |
| 12 | It takes only a small leap of imagination to think of much wider applications , from artificial wetlands full of bird-life designed to remove agricultural phosphates from Loch Leven 's influent streams , perhaps , to plant-filled lagoons created to transform fish farm effluents into natural water gardens . |
| 13 | It takes only a few minutes . |
| 14 | If the skin is healthy , it takes only a few minutes for the molecules to be absorbed ; much longer if the skin is congested or if there is much subcutaneous fat . |
| 15 | It takes only a few thousands of eV ( keV ) to bring two nuclei together and if they fuse you get over a million eV ( MeV ) in return . |
| 16 | It takes only a few minutes down to the shore , and I stop by the pier where one or two herring gulls are sitting rather listlessly , and a couple of hooded crows are poking about on the beach . |
| 17 | It takes only a few minutes to carry out this simple exercise , but it will greatly improve your ability to recognise genuinely lost coins when your search head passes over them . |
| 18 | Very little glass is wholly untouched from the time it is drawn or blown from the melt , and it takes only the lightest contact to create an elaborate crack pattern . |
| 19 | It takes out a blue tag printed with the words ‘ Staff in confidence ’ and sticks it into the space on the label . |
| 20 | Wh w when testing a new drug , you 're trading off th th the the level of testing you can do , it takes about a hundred millions pounds to produce a new drug , it takes about ten years from test tube to getting a licence . |
| 21 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |
| 22 | Indeed , it takes quite a wise person to be sufficiently aware that they have a problem to seek professional help . |