Example sentences of "that it have take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it really so important that it had to take priority over something as necessary as post , which often contains faxes and other mail urgently required . |
| 2 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 3 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 4 | It did n't matter that it had taken such a long time . |
| 5 | Jerry informed me later , tearfully , that it had taken almost twenty minutes . |
| 6 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 7 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 8 | Far Eastern trader Inchcape Plc yesterday announced that it had taken a 15.3% stake in Gestetner Holdings Plc , the world 's largest independent photocopier dealer , with the support of 29.5% shareholder Ricoh Co Ltd . |
| 9 | What concerned him was not the brutality but the fact that it had taken place while the Corporals were drunk . |
| 10 | If one were subsequently to receive a report that when the event occurred , the sun had set , one would be able to infer that it had taken place at exactly 12.00 midnight . |
| 11 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 12 | The importance of the summit was , above all , that it had taken place , and that the two leaders had been pictured together in amicable fireside discussion . |
| 13 | First he reminded us that it had taken him no time at all to find the Ardakkean thief — an off-world technician working in one of the phetam refining plants . |
| 14 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
| 15 | He found a rusty man-trap in a cupboard — an evil contraption of chains and springs and teeth — and assured her that it had taken the leg off more than one poacher in its day . |
| 16 | It was , she realised with astonishment , his version of an apology , and she had a feeling that it had taken a lot out of him to say it . |
| 17 | It was bitterly resentful , her hatred burning high as she remembered the months running into years that it had taken for her to convince herself that the guilt she had felt after her own father 's death was a self-destructive trap and just one more wrong done to her by Luke Scott . |
| 18 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |
| 19 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 20 | Jan. 27 USC broadcasts statement on Radio Mogadishu announcing that it had taken over the government . |
| 21 | A Gosteleradio statement declared that it had taken action after discovering that in September 1990 Interfax had registered as an independent agency without notifying Radio Moscow , but had persisted in using Radio Moscow facilities . |
| 22 | On June 28 Treuhand announced that it had taken control of PDS landed property , and frozen all its bank accounts , restricting the party 's freedom to spend money from those accounts without Treuhand permission . |
| 23 | that it had taken up far too much time . |
| 24 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 25 | English Nature said afterwards that it had taken the case to the Lords in search of a definitive ruling . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is ironic that it has taken until the dawn of the 21st century to realise that the best methods of utilising — and hence preserving — our woodlands are those employed a millennium ago . |
| 28 | Zon International has announced that it has taken over the UK distributorship for Solar lighting products . |
| 29 | What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated . |
| 30 | Reebok believes that it has taken a further innovative step by eliminating much of the superfluous components so that now , the tennis shoe will consist of an estimated 12 separate components . |