Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [not/n't] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , with recorders down to less than £8,000 it does n't take much arithmetic to work out that a company turning over 2,000 slides a year will come close to being better off with its own camera . |
| 2 | The Halifax 's strategic approach is most clearly shown in two big steps it did not take . |
| 3 | For ‘ The Phoenix and the Turtle ’ , another poem , a different problem , Shakespeare could celebrate the union of those two birds on an emblematic , almost mystical level : The paradoxes are as bewildering as the mystery of the Holy Trinity : Mysterious and desirable though such a union may be , it is not given to human beings , and in the Sonnets it does not take place . |
| 4 | Once you 'd confirmed my suspicions it did n't take long to get to the bottom of the story . |
| 5 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 6 | Norman Schwarzkopf It Does n't Take a Hero ( Bantam ) |