Example sentences of "it [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I says , Well if it only take minutes you bloody well do it yourself . |
| 2 | Plus , it only takes seconds to connect up , and as time is money that 's always important . |
| 3 | ( This is one event I have not seen personally , as it only takes place every seven years , the next being due in 1990. ) the last perambulation took place in August 1983 , with about 500 people taking part in the fourteen mile walk . |
| 4 | Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site . |
| 5 | It only takes Ahmed or yourself to press the button . |
| 6 | Send in the form at any time during the year , but it only takes effect at the beginning of the next tax year , in April . |
| 7 | ‘ It obviously takes food to keep you in a good mood , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 8 | ( it obviously takes years to graduate ) . |
| 9 | It literally takes seconds for a message typed in by someone in Britain to arrive at an address in the US , or Australia , or wherever . |
| 10 | Well it took me about er ten minutes to tell it , it just took ages and |
| 11 | The hope on the part of the Berkeley Software contingent that Novell Inc will quash the suit once it finally takes Unix Labs over may turn out to be a forlorn one . |
| 12 | What makes these system knowledge-based is not that it somehow takes knowledge to write them , nor that they behave as if they had knowledge , but rather that their architectures include explicit knowledge bases . |
| 13 | Women 's work in the countries of the Third World is generally rendered ‘ invisible ’ by normal national accounting procedures because it usually takes place outside the conventional sphere of wage labour , mostly on the family farm and in the home . |
| 14 | All this is natural transformation , but it usually takes seasons before the consequences of these changes become apparent . |
| 15 | It usually took Erlich little more than 30 seconds to get his shoes presentable , but Ruane was burnishing now with a golden duster . |
| 16 | Should it ever takes place . |
| 17 | if it ever takes place , and also Les who 's the chief engineer effectively at Dunstable . |
| 18 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 19 | The effect of such a marriage , had it ever taken place , would have been to create a substantial English-dominated fief on France 's northern and eastern borders which would have been a northern equivalent of Aquitaine . |
| 20 | The one used in London can handle fifty million pieces of information in one second , and it still takes minutes to produce a forecast for a few days ahead . |
| 21 | Erm because it is an onerous task , erm onerous in terms of the time that needs spending doing the job even if it 's relatively simple in terms of what needs to be done it still takes time and there 's still running around to do . |
| 22 | Just think of the Titanic — everyone knew where she went down , but it still took years to find her . ’ |
| 23 | To avoid a wasted journey , readers are advised to use the telephone numbers provided to check with the organisers that a particular event it still taking place . ) |
| 24 | National growth was uneven ; in the north of England it quickly took root although in the northwest and in Wales it grew more slowly ; it was always weak in Liverpool . |
| 25 | Whenever refraction takes place it always takes place according to the law of refraction stated above . |
| 26 | ‘ There are a few new faces in the team , and when you have that it always takes time for things to settle down . ’ |
| 27 | Beltsville , Maryland-based Micros Systems Inc reports that it has bought a 15% equity interest in Fidelio Software GmbH of Munich , Germany for an undisclosed cash sum with the option to buy the company outright over six years ; it also took majority stakes in three Fidelio distribution and support units . |
| 28 | This board dropped ‘ Unemployment ’ from its title in 1940 when it also took responsibility for supplementary pensions from local authorities ( Wilson 1948:97 — 8 ) . |
| 29 | So when modernity in Berlin — in the arts , in the massive new development of the city — took shape , so to speak , against the state , it also took shape in opposition to the identity of the German Bürgertum . |
| 30 | The development of textile manufacturing in the fifteenth century was not only one of the most fundamental economic changes of the period , but it also took men away from farming , created a market for the sale of agricultural products and gave an incentive to the producer to grow crops and raise stock beyond the levels required for his own consumption . |