Example sentences of "it would take [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , when Gould says he is prepared to be persuaded about electoral reform , he needs to say what it would take to persuade him . |
| 2 | In research for the advertising campaign — where we carried out in-depth , face-to-face interviews with senior representatives of 50 existing and potential customers — we looked at existing attitudes and probed them on what it would take to persuade them to come to us to answer their problems . |
| 3 | We had no idea how long it would take to support ourselves or how far back you need to go in the food chain before you can become organic . |
| 4 | ‘ All right , ’ he grudged , contemplating the hour it would take to drive it there . |
| 5 | Subjectively , it takes much less time to display thirty lines of 72 point text at a magnification level of 15% that it would take to scroll through to find the bit you want to edit at 100% magnification . |
| 6 | I said that the " genetic ruler " of Figure 8 enables us to calculate the minimum time it would take to evolve from one point to another . |
| 7 | Sunday 5 April What they do n't understand , the tactical voters , the protest voters , the principled abstainers , the half-way house shilly-shalliers , the cynical sophisticates , is that , without a Labour government , millions of us are simply defenceless : not just the actually poor , but also the but-for-the-grace-of-Bevan-there-go-I potentially poor ; those of us who know that the gains of three generations can be undone in the three hours it would take to nod a Disabling Bill through a Lib-Con parliament . |
| 8 | The engine driver also gave control some idea of how long it would take to clean the fire and raise sufficient steam for him to take his train forward . |
| 9 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |
| 10 | And although safe conduct was officially guaranteed to either faction during the time it would take to reach the site , parley and then ride home , many truces failed to hold . |
| 11 | We set out before 7 a.m. , but Jean-Claude did not tell me how far away the château stood , or how long it would take to reach the boundary of the domain . |
| 12 | Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals . |
| 13 | If I went and had a meal in the evening a la carte , how would you envisage it would take to go through that ? |
| 14 | It takes imagination and a lot of practice to read a play to yourself in the same time as it would take to see it on the stage . |
| 15 | Why could n't she slide out of herself and be someone else , if only for the ten seconds it would take to push open the door of the hotel and step across the threshold ? |
| 16 | Even if there were such a description it would be difficult to imagine the number of working years it would take to arrive at a complete frequency description of a novel , let alone " the language as a whole " . |
| 17 | Duncan had wanted to wait the few hours it would take to fix the Citation and run checks on it , but Myeloski was anxious to get to Tobolsk . |
| 18 | When he got his breath back he told Sutton it was imperative they sat down that night , the next night , the night after — however long it would take to thrash out a plan for the paper . |
| 19 | Was that all it would take to banish the feeling of gloom which so often half-incapacitated her ? |
| 20 | One good slap across that sweating face , she thought , that was all it would take to send the little s.o.b . |
| 21 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 22 | In 1962 , Jack was surely wondering what it would take to get a bigger , more important film role . |
| 23 | But we could tell that it was longer because of the extra tape measures it would take to get from one side to the other . ’ |
| 24 | He wondered how long it would take to get there . |
| 25 | He rang the TV licensing office in Bristol to check how long it would take to get the new licence and he was told he must turn his TV off for up to three weeks until the cheque was cleared . |
| 26 | Although I am always prepared to enter discussions with the hon. Gentleman about hypothetical matters , one must also balance the amount of time and expense that it would take to comment on something that is not a reality . |
| 27 | The pair are particularly proud of their accomplishment in light of the fact they are using standard interfaces , standard application programming interfaces and a garden variety Sbus , not the proprietary gear SGI reportedly claimed it would take to achieve the kind of performance they say they have . |
| 28 | They can work at speed , and make several passes in less time than it would take to plough the same area with mould-board equipment . |
| 29 | It would take to long to do it justice . |
| 30 | It went into great detail about how much it would take to start the colliery again and said that it would cost millions of pounds . |