Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] [vb -s] take " in BNC.
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1 | The point is that it has taken players like Wallace and Hardenberger to contradict the cliches about the limitations of the instrument and to prove how flexible it really is . |
2 | What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated . |
3 | SIR Edward du Cann has been walking a financial tightrope for so long that the only surprise is that it has taken him so long finally to fall off . |
4 | One problem with dependency reversal is that it tends to take development strategies for granted while it assesses the benefits , or costs , of particular activities . |
5 | ‘ Well , Wales has its Max Boyces , Tom Jones , Shirley Basseys and Shakin' Stevens , but there are n't many singers who actually sing about the country , and the funny thing is that it 's taken me about thirty years to start writing about where I was brought up . |
6 | A second limitation of the Keynesian model as we have outlined it in this chapter is that it fails to take adequately into account the problem of inflation . |
7 | His major problem is that he misses taking his medicine , and he travels too much . |
8 | And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar . |