Example sentences of "it take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Word is it took only three days to boot Unix on the prototype . |
| 2 | The visitor to an auction may be caught up in the excitement and drama of the event , but the climate of opinion in which it takes place has been created by scholars and critics as well as businessmen . |
| 3 | All it takes is for society to accept the conviction that the imposed form of existence does more harm than good . ’ |
| 4 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 5 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 6 | It takes its structure from a set of correspondences between elements and persons , and the old definition of temperament as a mixture of qualities is present to the reader 's mind — the same definition that permits us to think of Faussone as a part of Levi , or as his alter ego . |
| 7 | It takes imagination and a lot of practice to read a play to yourself in the same time as it would take to see it on the stage . |
| 8 | There is really no way of knowing how long it takes to develop an actor who has already gained a lot from work in university . |
| 9 | Maximum clarity , he wrote , for as long as it takes . |
| 10 | Not to give in to temptation , no matter what form it takes . |
| 11 | Sometimes it takes a little while to realize you really have lost interest in something , I said to him . |
| 12 | It takes a little time to sec that you 're not moving forward any more , either because you do n't know how or because there is n't anywhere to move forward to . |
| 13 | If the pub as an institution expresses itself in a rich variety of ways , the same is true of the physical forms it takes . |
| 14 | It takes more than design flair and understanding to produce a leisure complex . |
| 15 | It takes only a few minutes . |
| 16 | One the flour and water are mixed to a paste , it takes about 10 minutes for the heat to develop . |
| 17 | That 's something it takes a sturdy British workman to understand . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 19 | It takes a great deal of prestidigitatory skill to poison someone before your very eyes so to speak . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They said it would be as soon as possible — but it takes years for some people . |
| 21 | Bearing in mind that it takes approximately 12 weeks from planting to flowering , it is possible to grow bulbs of many species and varieties to flower at the same time for a spectacular display , and also plant for a succession of flowers if potting up is carefully timed . |
| 22 | The combination is dramatic and somehow unexpected in a senecio , especially as it takes place in autumn when most other border perennials have flowered and then faded . |
| 23 | It takes only a minute or two to wrap a band of netting supported by three or four canes around the plant , threading one cane through generously overlapping ends to keep the band in place . |
| 24 | It takes at least an hour to get the system clear and dry again , and is a very frustrating problem , particularly if it occurs in a competition . |
| 25 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 26 | Thus when the glider is launched it takes a second cable and parachute up with it . |
| 27 | It takes quite a bit of practice to orientate and get the right position for the shot , and this is something worthwhile perfecting during the winter or when you are just flying locally . |
| 28 | It takes different people different lengths of time to conceive . |
| 29 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 30 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |