Example sentences of "[adv] that it take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or without extending the whole process so that it takes nearly a year to change anything ? |
| 2 | Apparently , in the movements before a 360 ° loop the board is headed into the wind so that it takes off from the wave at an oblique angle . |
| 3 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 4 | King cobras curl around their pile of eggs , encircling it with their coils , and crocodiles stay alongside their nest of decaying vegetation for the two months or so that it takes the eggs within to hatch . |
| 5 | Interlaced displays scan alternate lines , so that it takes two complete passes to display every line on-screen . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The second method for regeneration to be initiated is by a time clock , so that it takes place at a convenient time such as during the night . |
| 8 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 9 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 10 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not that it takes an age to construct a very convincing garden with strong Japanese elements . |
| 13 | ( Smart , 1959 ; Armstrong , 1968 , 1980 ; Lewis , 1966 , 1972 ) What is distinctive about this view is not that it takes the episodes of consciousness to stand in such causal relations . |
| 14 | Well no because it 'll tha it does n't work like that it takes about cos it 's cold it 's gon na take about an hour to warm up and that wo n't come on that 'll just cu keep coming on and off all the time till it 's hottened up . |
| 15 | It worked out electronically that it took a fish finger less time to defrost than a leg of lamb , and when your designer-label , calorie-counted tagliatelle was ready for eating , it told you so with five bleeps rather than the paltry three offered by the cheaper models . |
| 16 | Mary pointed out that it takes a while to become objective and to look at yourself without flinching . |
| 17 | Wildavsky ( 1969 ) supports this view by pointing out that it took the Rand Corporation over five years to develop the pilot system adopted in the US Department of Defense . |
| 18 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 19 | For once , I thought before speaking , and so was able to refrain from remarking tritely that it took two to make a marriage . |
| 20 | The reason many directors resist starting a pension scheme is simply that it takes money out of the business for example , for expansion . |
| 21 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 22 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 23 | She had fully expected Penry to dismiss them as nonsense , and felt so shattered that he had n't that it took her longer than usual to clear away and leave the kitchen immaculate . |
| 24 | He seemed familiar , so familiar indeed that it took time to sink in . |
| 25 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 26 | He spoke so casually that it took Bernice five seconds to realize the implications of what he had said and another five to fear it . |
| 27 | Roman enquired , so quietly that it took a moment before his meaning sank in . |