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Old 08-Oct-2006, 20:33
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Default Re: the whole sentence used as a noun

Actually, in your example the take-it-all phrase is being used as an adjective. However, for compounds of this type (regardless of the part of speech), always use hyphens to show that the group of words is a single unit of meaning.
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