Example sentences of "it take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Fergus Campbell has suggested , if the ERP can tell us whether or not the subject has seen a light , it takes the psycho out of psychophysics . |
| 2 | Before doing that , it takes the old sample and writes it to DAC1 , so that the array behaves as a 64-character circular buffer which merely delays the samples . |
| 3 | Often enough it takes the same form as with Beerbohm : the affectation of an anachronistic ignorance about what life in North America is like . |
| 4 | The compensation deal will cost the government an estimated A$100m and involves Canberra waiving airport landing charges for as long as it takes the airlines to recoup their losses from keeping about 21,000 non-pilot employees on their staff during the dispute . |
| 5 | It takes the total cost of the package for Britain to at least £1.3bn . |
| 6 | It takes the co-operation of both parties to pull this off and all artists would be wise to give their general interview method some thought in advance . |
| 7 | Look , laddie , it takes the entire Bolivian Army to wipe out two gringos . |
| 8 | That 's a look we 'll see emerging from the dull , old chrysalis that was Renault design in the '70s and '80s , when it takes the wraps off its first really new-age car in two years ' time . |
| 9 | But , most of all , it takes the will of people like you who care about whales and dolphins to make it happen . |
| 10 | Once again this is wrong , clearly so : ‘ It is a ‘ scam ’ on such a scale it takes the breath away . ’ |
| 11 | It takes the shortfall for the year to date to £19.3billion and the annual total will easily top the £20billion forecast by the Chancellor , Mr John Major , in his autumn expenditure statement . |
| 12 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 13 | It takes the form of a stone tent , to which his widow intended to attach camel-bells ; a small crucifix , incongruously superimposed upon it , fails to redeem it from its bizarre and Bedouin appearance . |
| 14 | So it goes south to Gath , but it takes the plague with it , together with an unearthly confusion and terror . |
| 15 | The 2–8–0 is seen at Shireoaks as it takes the line to Shirebrook , heading back to its Buttlerley base . |
| 16 | But oxygen does perform one function that bring–benefit to all of life ; not when it is in its usual form , but when it takes the form of ozone . |
| 17 | It takes the French to tackle one of the planet 's least hospitable regions in one of man 's most loveable motors . |
| 18 | Where plot might be jettisoned , story is retained as a principle of connection : ‘ Once the story is launched it must go on it must follow its course however crooked it may be even if it takes the wrong direction ’ ( 1976b ) . |
| 19 | It takes the form not just of arched entrances , as at Brussels Midi ( 1869 ) , Zurich North-East ( 1873 ) , and Budapest East ( 1881 ) , but also of arched lunette windows which define the building they pierce , as in the Paris stations Gare de l'Est ( 1852 ) , Gare Montparnasse ( 1852 ) , and Gare du Nord ( 1864 ) , and at London King 's Cross ( 1852 ) . |
| 20 | An interesting aspect of any ‘ counter-revolution ’ is that it takes the terms of the ‘ revolution ’ and turns them to its own purposes . |
| 21 | This was not done in the 1985 Act — with the result that it would be open to the Government not to comply with an order if it takes the view that the Tribunal 's decision clearly exceeds its powers under the statute . |
| 22 | It takes the railway line into the city 's Central Station , itself a notable piece of railway building , designed by John Dobson , the architect who was responsible for so much of Newcastle 's new central stylishness in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | When you believe that you are guilty of all the pain caused by your own pregnancy , birth and subsequent existence , then the burden really does bend your back , and it takes the labours of Hercules to try and straighten it . |
| 24 | Now we have clean power with unlimited sources it takes the heat off yet another area of national and cultural competition . ’ |
| 25 | It has a ‘ once upon a time ’ approach and , while avoiding negative criticisms of New Age philosophies , it takes the reader on a tour of some of the more positive Christian beliefs . |
| 26 | In particular , it attempts to assess how rational decision-makers will act in certain situations : ‘ It takes the tools of economics and applies them to the material of politics . |
| 27 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
| 28 | It takes the form of two parallel fluorescent tubes bridged at one end . |
| 29 | And the model incorporates an adjustable time lag in the volcanic and solar influences to allow for the time it takes the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans to respond to outside influences . |
| 30 | ‘ It takes the pleasure right out of it , so it does , ’ Winnie said . |