Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it take " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In a political and administrative system as riddled with tradition as the British , the old model could , and probably will , be restored in the few minutes it takes a new prime minister to travel from Buckingham Palace to Downing Street . |
| 2 | Here , I want to identify one feature of that relationship which seems to me to be crucial in understanding generic transformation in television , and the specific and different forms it takes in the US and the UK : the organization of the schedule . |
| 3 | On home-baked brown bread it takes the place of butter . |
| 4 | You tend to find that you become accustomed to the timing on your local water and that when sailing in a different place it takes a while to learn the timing of a different wave pattern . |
| 5 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 6 | Are you gon na go up there and get this sauce it takes hour . |
| 7 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 8 | I still love playing , but at my pensionable age it takes longer to recover from each match . |
| 9 | Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her . |
| 10 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough 2 Plymouth Argyle 1 ON a day when former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton was on top form it took a top goal to beat him . |
| 12 | On Hong Kong this year it took on a slightly different connotation . |
| 13 | She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing . |
| 14 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 15 | This time it took no formal action . |
| 16 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 17 | Or nearly nothing : where before you could book for lunch by telephone in a minute or two , this time it took half a dozen tries spread over a day and a bit , and I finally had to strike higher up . |
| 18 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 19 | There was another babble of chatter , and this time it took longer to quieten . |
| 20 | It was just the same thing all over again , except that this time it took twice as long because of the interpreter . |
| 21 | Biographical time , the most complex of the three , the most various in the chronotopal forms it takes , and the most influential on later developments of the novel , places character at its centre , organizing space and time around it , variously tracing time as a spiritual or intellectual journey through a symbolic landscape , unfolding character through a series of acts and deeds , or tracing character through the different components of domestic and public life — family life , conduct in war , memorable sayings . |
| 22 | Not only does the promotion system mean that people who rise to the top are likely to have just those personal characteristics it takes to commit corporate crime , but these are also reinforced by the psychological consequences of success itself , for these too free a person from the moral bind of conventional values . |
| 23 | On the following day it took the Goodyear Trophy at 206 mph , flown by Hall , it took the next two races , again cruising round the course . |
| 24 | painting the kitchen once and I got into so much trouble it took him so long to rub it all off and start again , he made me promise I 'd never touch a paint brush again but he I mean , he would definitely be able to tell you what paint he used and |
| 25 | The advantage of a special utility room ( perhaps and old scullery or larder ) is that the noise , steam and clutter associated with doing the laundry is kept out of the kitchen , but the disadvantage is the extra space it takes up . |
| 26 | You have an opportunity through experience for knowing better than anyone else what is at stake and how much effort it takes , and what a loss it is if you do n't do everything you can to make your partner contented . |
| 27 | But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’ |
| 28 | How much memory it takes up depends on the applications being run , comments IBM . |
| 29 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 30 | Or perceptions of how much time it takes |