Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] takes [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What makes these system knowledge-based is not that it somehow takes knowledge to write them , nor that they behave as if they had knowledge , but rather that their architectures include explicit knowledge bases .
2 One of the persistent misconceptions about professional work in the human service occupations is that it mainly takes place face to face with clients or patients and that time spent with others about the client or patient is a necessary but regrettable adjunct to the real work .
3 The hope on the part of the Berkeley Software contingent that Novell Inc will quash the suit once it finally takes Unix Labs over may turn out to be a forlorn one .
4 The one used in London can handle fifty million pieces of information in one second , and it still takes minutes to produce a forecast for a few days ahead .
5 Lorenz had his model restored and it now takes pride of place on his writing desk , decorated in the colours of the aircraft flown by Helmut Lennartz also formerly of III/JG7 .
6 if it ever takes place , and also Les who 's the chief engineer effectively at Dunstable .
7 All this is natural transformation , but it usually takes seasons before the consequences of these changes become apparent .
8 Send in the form at any time during the year , but it only takes effect at the beginning of the next tax year , in April .
9 Women 's work in the countries of the Third World is generally rendered ‘ invisible ’ by normal national accounting procedures because it usually takes place outside the conventional sphere of wage labour , mostly on the family farm and in the home .
10 ( This is one event I have not seen personally , as it only takes place every seven years , the next being due in 1990. ) the last perambulation took place in August 1983 , with about 500 people taking part in the fourteen mile walk .
11 Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site .
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