Example sentences of "[conj] it took " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huddersfield Town .... 3 Nottingham Forest .... 3 ( aet ; score at 90 minutes 3-3 ; Forest win on away goals ) NOTTINGHAM FOREST , the Littlewoods Cup holders , stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road , where it took the League 's away goals regulations to defeat the otherwise indomitable spirit of Huddersfield in a stirring tie . |
| 2 | Our survey rates Shell most highly for its management quality , where it took first place ( see table 3 ) . |
| 3 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 4 | Then , round a corner , you find yourself in the famous archaeological dig , which has been reconstructed where it took place , with the preserved tenth century buildings re-erected where they were found . |
| 5 | Legally registered only since late February , Rukh also performed well in the west of the republic ( a nationalist heartland ) , where it took control of the Lvov city soviet . |
| 6 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 7 | Although it took so long finally to dispose of the machinery and tanks , other material was removed from the incline during the 1920's as uses for it were found . |
| 8 | In 1908 the Standard was not printing photographs and , although it took up the art form in the 1920 's and it is a curiosity to learn that the first photograph it published to do with the Club was in fact of the Opening Match , but 50 years after the event . |
| 9 | Although it took years rather than months , new general managers were appointed throughout the NHS and steadily reorganised their Health Authorities along general management lines . |
| 10 | Thus the theory of light was unified with the theory of electromagnetism , although it took another 30 years before Heinrich Hertz was able to demonstrate positively that electromagnetic waves did exist . |
| 11 | Although it took her months to get over Cerdan 's death , Edith Piaf 's desire for other men finally conquered her grief and according to her sister , Momone , ‘ she went wild , she ate her heart out , she was jealous and possessive … she howled and she locked guys up ’ . |
| 12 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 13 | Although it took a while and I crashed a couple of times , once I even knocked a dam down with a kite . |
| 14 | That was actually quite a productive meeting , although it took quite a time to get through it , I think we did the right thing on the continuous procedures . |
| 15 | Nicky Summerbee claimed goal number 3 , although it took a couple of deflections on the way win . |
| 16 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 17 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 18 | Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government . |
| 19 | Remember that it took New Zealand four attempts before they finally beat Wales in Cardiff , in 1963 ( they won in Swansea in 1924 ) . |
| 20 | Eric Pickles , leader of Bradford Council , cautioned that it took time to get budgets under control . |
| 21 | It is extraordinary that it took so long for the importance of this to be realised in Britain . |
| 22 | The voice was so absent and tired that it took some of the chill from the words . |
| 23 | The family and marriage , in the particular form that it took in Victorian times , was , for the great majority of Engels 's contemporaries a sacred , eternal , and unchallengeable institution . |
| 24 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 25 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 26 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 27 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 28 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 29 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 30 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |