Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may alternatively take the form of withholding or threatening to withhold the performance of some public duty or the rendering of some public service unless a payment is made which is not lawfully due or is greater than that which is lawfully due , as was the position in the colore officii cases . |
| 2 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 3 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 4 | Uk Brother owners please note — the next time you phone Manchester , be thankful that there is someone to answer your problem , even if it may occasionally take a couple of days when all the staff are at a show . |
| 5 | I think it should only take a few minutes to have you begging me to make love to you … ’ |
| 6 | It might also take a narrow vocational view of the role of the colleges and seek to impose academic judgments on them in a way which the local authorities had not done . |
| 7 | Well it might just take a couple of hours to print out a complete set of statements for two hundred customers . |
| 8 | But it might just take the form of going to the bar to buy drinks for everyone . ’ |
| 9 | And for the young students , it might just take the fun out of learning . |
| 10 | I think it 's a good time to spend in the garden to be honest , I mean you ca n't , you ca n't , it 's not really long enough to try and do it at weekends , not if he wants to move that garage back , it 'll probably take the best part of the week to sort that out |
| 11 | It 'll only take a couple of minutes — what I 've got to say . ’ |
| 12 | But it 'll only take a couple of days . ’ |
| 13 | I promise you it 'll only take a minute . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 'll never take the place of vintage wine . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Completing your dog-training course could take a couple of months but it could also take a couple of years because of the waiting period . ’ |
| 16 | It 'd only take a minute to get back and then all this would be over . |
| 17 | Once the beer can had been invented , that is evolved , in one place , it was inevitable that it would eventually take the place of the bottle all over the world , though the process is still going on . |
| 18 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It would probably take a week of rain like this to reduce the forest-fire hazard . ’ |
| 20 | It would probably take an earthquake or an overnight plunge in the market value of Swaledale sheep ( or both ) to raise the communal eyebrow . |
| 21 | This last the verderers thought the least likely course because the escape had been made nearer to the north of the depression than the south and it would therefore take a day longer to get round it on that side . |
| 22 | It would now take a motorist burping their horn or a dog barking nearby to get her hopping mad , which was real progress . |
| 23 | ‘ It would only take a change of attitude amongst men to improve the situation out of all recognition . |
| 24 | It would only take a marginally improved thrust to give the aircraft a vastly improved ground-to-air time , a higher ceiling and a greatly boosted top airspeed . ’ |
| 25 | So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure . |
| 26 | It would only take a computer error or a mutiny by some of those manning the weapons to trigger a global war . |
| 27 | It would only take a certain kind of eyelashes or a whiff of one particular aftershave and I would be sick with love . |
| 28 | I thought it would only take a couple of days to clear up , but it was to take quite a lot longer . |
| 29 | In this case the motherboard replacement is n't as clear cut a winner and it would only take a slight change , such as not being able to use the RAM , to make it look even worse . |
| 30 | Then , out of breath , he 'd realised it would only take a quick word with the girl at the desk to find out . |