Example sentences of "that it [vb mod] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only kept repeating it was quite something , that he 'd have to think about it , that it would take time to assimilate . |
| 2 | In 1988 the Japanese giant bought CBS records for $2bn and last week it announced that it would take control of Columbia pictures . |
| 3 | It is at Labour conferences that you get the sweet nuttiness of Baby Milk Action , which proclaims , ‘ Breast Milk : a World Resource , ’ and tells you , as a fact , that it would take 114 million lactating cows to replace the milk of the women of India . |
| 4 | The director said that it would take between one and two weeks for the Soviet Union to send the forces it is currently pulling out , back into eastern Europe . |
| 5 | It was recognized by all concerned that it would take at least three and more likely five years for any of the Brabazon types to come into production , so work also proceeded on interim types that could hold the gap until the newer types were in service . |
| 6 | On 21 September Prime Minister Clement Attlee informed Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin , then in New York , that he favoured a declaration from the United Nations that it would take responsibility for the rehabilitation of the whole country . |
| 7 | Last week I mistakenly told you that it would take place today , sorry . |
| 8 | Iran has made it plain that it would take it amiss if it were left out of any post-war security arrangements for the Gulf — but even more amiss if outsiders ( read Americans ) were to stay on . |
| 9 | It was estimated that it would take them two to three weeks to get to the Falklands and therefore , theoretically , the decision could be rescinded if there were some kind of diplomatic breakthrough . |
| 10 | The bird got so attached to her that it would take food from between her lips . |
| 11 | Some were wounded ; others so damaged by their experiences that it would take years to return to normal . |
| 12 | Twice he had let her come up for air , so that it would take longer , but the third time he had held her under until she was finished . |
| 13 | Having announced that it would take the stand , however , the department feared the consequences of backing down . |
| 14 | In a report on the future of the Falklands , Lord Shackleton said that it would take £100 million or so for redevelopment . |
| 15 | It might therefore have been recommended were it not that it would take someone already well-versed in galactic studies to interpret a text badly translated and poorly proof-read , abounding in misspellings and obscure turns of phrase . |
| 16 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 17 | Very soon , however , it was realised that the fall of rock was so extensive that it would take weeks to reach John and , naturally , the initial urgency waned . |
| 18 | The target date of 1992 was chosen for the completion of the single market and it was thought that it would take the lifetime of two Commissions to complete the programme . |
| 19 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 20 | The Panel added that it would take no further action in either case . |
| 21 | They estimated that it would take them four months to build the cells , the measuring equipment and constant temperature baths . |
| 22 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 23 | The survey was mainly restricted to the exterior of the Lancaster and estimated that it would take 2,000 man hours to bring R5868 up to exhibition standards externally . |
| 24 | Somebody phoned an ambulance and was told that it would take between an hour and an hour and a half to arrive , so Derek volunteered to drive me to Casualty at Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth , forty-five miles away . |
| 25 | Others , including the London councils , were sympathetic but explained that it would take months , not hours , to get the decision through all the relevant committees . |
| 26 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 27 | He told us that it would take many weeks to sort out and would involve a variety of procedures , such as a medical , reports from the school and visits . |
| 28 | Critics claim the technology is 1980s passe and not for Unix and that it would take a tremendous amount of engineering to make it suitable for modern enterprise-wide client/server applications that demand object-oriented solutions . |
| 29 | Siemens AG said last week that it would take longer than previously planned to reduce losses at its computer and also at its semiconductor divisions , and blamed a continued deterioration in market conditions . |
| 30 | The company says the attempt at a buyout failed because the managers realised that it would take longer than they had planned to develop a new generation of the 50 Series minicomputer line . |