Example sentences of "that it takes a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second — Mr Lawson 's line -that demand is indeed slowing down , but that it takes a long time to affect the balance of payments . |
| 2 | The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want . |
| 3 | Then when I told him that it takes a man to make a man , he hit me right across the face . |
| 4 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |
| 5 | Although it is frightening that so many people take Ecstasy to guarantee a ‘ good time ’ , what is more frightening is that it takes a Class A drug for them to feel they can lose their inhibitions . |
| 6 | His lyrics are abysmal tosh , his singing voice so stunted , adenoidal and gumby that it takes a real effort of will to remember that this is n't a joke , that this man is actually worshipped as a rock god by literally millions of depressed , terminally adolescent would-be heroin addicts worldwide . |
| 7 | A much more effective technique is to suggest to the group that it takes a break from the task . |
| 8 | And child care is the key to dependency , for the very simple reason that it takes a lot of time and is unpaid ’ . |
| 9 | And childcare is the key to dependency , for the very simple reason that it takes a lot of time and is unpaid . |
| 10 | The best thing about publishing is that it takes a book away from you and kills it . |
| 11 | Goody points out that the written form of language releases us from the linear experiential mode : ‘ the fact that it takes a visual form means that one can escape from the problem of the succession of events in time , by backtracking , skipping , looking to see who-done-it before we know what it is they did . |
| 12 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 13 | In this connexion it is worth remembering that it takes a little longer to change where cymbals are concerned ( owing to the way in which they are held ) but from bass drum to side-drum , triangle , or tambourine , or from any of these to any other , is a matter of seconds . |
| 14 | I was deeply impressed at your delicious meal , for I know that it takes a lot of thought and time to put something together so excellently ( at least , I know about the thought + time ! ) . |
| 15 | The major problem with the method is that it takes a great deal of time , attention and patience . |
| 16 | Is not it clear from those figures and from many others that it takes a Conservative Government to deliver the goods to NHS patients and that all the Opposition have to offer are promises which more often than not prove false ? |
| 17 | If the hon. Gentleman just thinks about what he is saying , he will realise that it takes a Government one or two years to bring the economy round . |
| 18 | Mary pointed out that it takes a while to become objective and to look at yourself without flinching . |
| 19 | This is because its chronicity can be achieved only by delivering a massive insult or repeated dosing so that it takes a long time for the acute ulcer to heal and often leads to the death of the animal in the acute phase . |
| 20 | If we make the more realistic assumption that it takes a finite period of time then we have to take into account the fact that replacement of the lower lithosphere by hot asthenosphere during extension will lead to heat being conducted laterally into unextended , and therefore unthinned , lithosphere , as well as vertically into the overlying upper lithosphere ( Fig. 4.17 ( C ) ) . |
| 21 | Is n't it terrible that it takes a war ! |
| 22 | so did the automatic thing which proves that it takes a bit of time and patience before you 've achieved this |
| 23 | There is no reason why computers should n't be natural and friendly , it 's just that it takes a lot more memory in the computer to have all the complex rules of an ordinary language , and also it 's much harder to write the programs that tell the computer how to understand a natural language . |
| 24 | You said that it takes a long time for development between the first idea being mooted and a workable application of the particular physical principle , and you cited , what , fifty years for the development of a nuclear power station — is there always that time lag in technology ? |