Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [vb pp] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of the temperature being so low — although it has risen several degrees with the cloud over — is that the snow is like dry flour and brushes off easily . |
| 2 | It has survived several challenges by federal investigators . |
| 3 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British . |
| 4 | It has taken several years of animated discussions among the members and their respective lawyers to arrive at these terms and conditions , which are also intended to be in line with the code of conduct adopted last year by the European federation of art dealers , FIDOAO ( Federation Internationale des Diffuseurs d'Oeuvres d'Art Originales ) . |
| 5 | It has taken several months of cajoling to persuade the enigmatic political advisor Philip Gould to give an interview . |
| 6 | Like most of the English RACs , it has recently streamlined its administrative structure and in order to oversee the wide field described above , as well as the coordination of non-advanced further education in Wales , it has brought several committees together to form a new Further and Higher Education Committee . |