Example sentences of "take a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Will the Secretary of State take a little time to reflect on a previous answer on non-proliferation ?
2 If you take a little time to pack , your luggage should arrive in one piece with crumple-free contents .
3 All the rotaries , as with any noise gate , take a little time to get into using and effective gating comes about through practice , although it can at times appear something of a black art .
4 I suggest that the Secretary of State take a little time to read our new document , ’ London : a strategy for transport ’ , which might help him and his colleagues to get sorted out on the need for better transport in the capital city .
5 before you rush off to the local retailer , cash in hand , take a little time to consider the type of runner you are and what you really need .
6 APPROACH Take a systematic approach to risk issues
7 Take a systematic approach to risk issues
8 ‘ Trouble is , ’ Anne said , ‘ hundred-year-old trees take a hundred years to grow . ’
9 Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave .
10 The climatic extremes of the far north mean that forests take a long time to regenerate .
11 The box and pyrotechnics take a long time to set up , so we ca n't rehearse and have to hope it will be all right on the night .
12 As you now from your own experience , such events take a long time to plan , and the hope is that it will all come together on the day !
13 Also the carbs on the SD1 V8 engine take a long time to return to idle when you take your foot off the throttle .
14 But the wounds inflicted by the media will , it appears , take a long time to heal .
15 It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold .
16 But some memories take a long time to go … especially when they 're being preserved by Historical enthusiasts .
17 Single gas instantaneous water heaters have their place alongside a storage system ; the main problem with relying on a gas multi-point heater to provide all the house 's hot water is the low flow rate which means baths take a long time to fill .
18 I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’
19 For one thing they are not really cultivated , mostly because the trees take a long time to bear fruit and even then are not very prolific .
20 We have asked to do so , but changes take a long time to come into effect .
21 well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time
22 The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think .
23 We are committed to putting money and people into the sort of programmes that take a long time to make .
24 It is towards high definition programs that take a long time to write .
25 But he knows that new formats take a long time to catch on with the public : ‘ We have n't got expectations of hundreds of thousands of units .
26 We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field .
27 ‘ I think it 's a waste of time growing vegetables such as sprouts and cabbages that take a long time to grow and are cheap in the shops , but I enjoy growing beans , carrots and marrows .
28 Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’
29 Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball .
30 Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it .
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