Example sentences of "it [vb -s] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It needs a few gallons of hot soapy water too !
2 It has a former Friends of the Earth director as a policy adviser and it donates a penny to charity for every returned plastic carrier bag — two ways in which J. Sainsbury is setting out its stall as a leader on environmental issues .
3 And it takes a full 3lbs of that grain to produce just 1lb of poultry .
4 Although it takes a few minutes for the body to send out any strong signals of satiety it is probable that chewing and swallowing movements do begin to send messages to the brain .
5 In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents .
6 Come back in a fortnight and we 'll check its progress , but you 'll find it takes a few weeks to really heal properly because we use that toe a great deal for balance . ’
7 Be warned : time is a great leveller and it takes a few seasons in the hard world outside the show marquee for a new rose to find its true level .
8 It opens a few years after the final English conquest of Wales in 1282/3 ; it closes with the outbreak of the last great Welsh revolt .
9 Instead , it gives a few lines of new advice on better cooking methods .
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