Example sentences of "[vb -s] two things " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point I am trying to make from all this is that to win a karate bout needs two things — your ability to defeat the opponent and the referee panel 's ability to recognise your superior performance . |
| 2 | A clearer remit needs two things : indication of purpose to make expectations more explicit and more specification of member roles , corporately and individually . |
| 3 | A good spreadsheet needs two things — plenty of memory and the ability to calculate quickly . |
| 4 | The program accomplishes two things — ‘ blind ’ set-up , i.e. without needing to display an image , and control of the measuring process . |
| 5 | THE restaurant industry has two things in common with the film industry : the high failure rate among its small businesses and the abundance of ‘ how to ’ wisdom . |
| 6 | About this God Paul says two things : on the one hand , ‘ He ’ is ‘ the God who made the world and everything in it ’ , who ‘ does not live in shrines made by man ’ ( 17:24 ) ; on the other hand , ‘ He ’ is not far from each one of us , for ‘ in Him we live and move and have our being ’ ( 17:27–8 ) . |
| 7 | This actually tests two things , the capabilities of the software itself and those of the dealer trying to sell it to you . |
| 8 | Getting rid of him achieves two things . |
| 9 | Successful peacekeeping requires two things : authority and strength . |
| 10 | But no one ever mentions two things which seem to me of prime importance in the whole relationship saga . |
| 11 | That reflects two things — first , the shortened nature of this parliamentary Session , giving rise to the need to proceed with our Bills in an orderly way through Committee if we are to dispose of as many of them as possible ; and , secondly , the importance that we attach to this Bill , which is symbolic of the high priority that we give to the reform of further education , as well as higher education . |
| 12 | Commonhold is simply a system whereby the owner of the flat ( the tenure can also in certain circumstances apply to houses , or even offices or other commercial developments ) owns two things — first , the freehold of his individual unit and , secondly , an inalienable right to use the common parts and other services of his block . |
| 13 | In terms of multimedia , this means two things . |
| 14 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 15 | This implies two things : firstly , that in his original draft Robertson had included the words " Chetniks " ; and secondly that he had specifically intended that some " dissident Yugoslavs " should be excluded from the order . |
| 16 | Fort Augustus offers two things worth relishing : that its canal provides a waterway down to Loch Oich and Loch Lochy and into Loch Linnhe and therefore out to sea and to Mull and Manhattan and Newfoundland . |
| 17 | This presupposes two things . |
| 18 | This way of putting the hypothesis is useful in that it does two things . |
| 19 | Rain does two things for me . |
| 20 | Rain does two things for me . |
| 21 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 22 | Windows for Pens is basically a set of extensions to Windows 3.1 which does two things . |
| 23 | The system provides two things in an effective way . |
| 24 | However , the section makes two things clear . |
| 25 | When Niki said the Paris decision had been the right one , one knows two things about Niki that explain his position : first that any Ferrari driver has to speak through both sides of his mouth , and second , that even were that not so , there is nothing Niki likes as much as winding someone else up . |
| 26 | In practice it overlooks two things . |
| 27 | The reference to her Bible suggests two things : firstly the oral and the literary could exist side by side , and secondly that religion and superstition were not necessarily perceived as contesting forms of popular belief . |