Example sentences of "it would take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |
| 2 | TAXATION is unlikely to be increased , though that has been suggested , as it would take much-needed spending power out of the economy and be unacceptable to the newly-powerful Tory Backbenchers . |
| 3 | He knew it would take great care and he knew also — inadmissible , subversive thought — that what he really wanted was to live with her here , securely , for the rest of his life : that was the earthly promise of the revelation at Hause Point . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It would take superhuman charity , she decided , to forgive , let alone encourage him . |
| 6 | The Libyan government announced that it would take reciprocal action against any countries expelling Libyan diplomats . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes — it would take some money and labour to dig that lot out ! |
| 8 | And of course , as I 've told you , it would take some fiddle to get past Gran 's lynx 's eyes . |
| 9 | He said it would take some time to redress the imbalance in spending on black and white children when five times as much is still spent on each white child as on each black child . |
| 10 | It would take some time , but that did n't matter . |
| 11 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
| 12 | It would take some time for the news to get around . |
| 13 | I think the the the B W the Barton Willmore analysis appears to overlook the fact , and again Mr Jewitt referred to this when he referred to Easingwold , that settlement evolves over time , and and nobody seems to be addressing the point that that fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred , two thousand houses , however many it is , wo n't appear over night , erm er th it would take some time for that to be to be realized erm and as part of that there 's no clear view as to when the services will come along that are that are necessary to give that community the balance it it said it requires , erm , Mr Timothy from Wood Fram Frampton referred I think to a figure of twelve fifty dwellings for a viable new settlement , and there were plenty ex of of examples , quote , erm that one could look at to see that was the case , erm I I 'd be interested to know where those examples are an and what there make up erm is . |
| 14 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |
| 15 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 16 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 17 | Because of his professed preference for isolation , it would take considerable time before Ewan was missed by other personnel on the base . |
| 18 | The person gathering the data would first have to register the churches ; then they would have to go back and record the sculptures kept in each ; it would take another visit to catalogue the paintings ; another for the liturgical vestments , and so on . |