Sentence examples for it takes not only from inspiring English sources

It takes not only talent but also nerve to mix the two without disrupting people's entrenched expectations.

Unlike playing well on cable or on late-night talk shows, it takes not only performance skills but also an extensive personal production team.

As Fossett has learned, it takes not only a fast boat also but a rare convergence of ideal weather systems to have a genuine shot at a record.

A move such as this is the hallmark of a confident writer; it takes not only daring to do it, but skill, and from the first exchanges between the pair, you know it's going to work.

It takes not only a great writer but a great scientist with a lifetime's experience to explain such a notoriously tricky area with absolute economy and precision, not to mention humour.

"But it takes not only money.

It took not only a particularly heinous murder but also a fully idealized victim.

Founded in 1881 as the new railhead (built by the Texas and Pacific Railway) for the overland Texas cattle drives, it took not only the business of the previous railhead, Abilene, Kansas, but also its biblical name, which in Hebrew means "grassy plain".

In his view, it took not only a change in evangelical attitudes but also the emergence of a new generation of leaders with power bases of their own to challenge the right.

It took not only colleagues but commentators a long time to catch up with that realisation as for 10 weeks I was spun, lifted, thrown and flown across the dance floor.

So seductive were its melodies that Jewish poets living under Muslim rule were inspired not simply to imitate it in Hebrew but to rival and, at times, surpass it, taking not only meters from their Arab models but also themes, tropes and entire genres.