Example sentences of "it [vb -s] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It crosses two mountain ranges , 561 rivers , 124 km of permafrost and more than 1000 km of West Siberian bog and marsh on its journey through five time zones to Western Europe . |
| 2 | Not big at all , just comfortable , so that it sleeps two or three . |
| 3 | It represents two inseparable qualities . |
| 4 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 5 | It involves two of the most intimate personal relationships , that of husband to wife , and of parent to child … |
| 6 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 7 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 8 | Underwritten by the Economic Insurance Company , it offers two levels of cover — gold card or silver — and three hospital bands — ranging from most private hospitals in the UK , including London , at Band A , to NHS provincial teaching and general hospitals , and lower cost private hospitals , at Band C. |
| 9 | It offers two options , Tessa with a Plus and Tessa Plus Income . |
| 10 | If these problems can be overcome , it offers two advantages that chained overflow record handling does not . |
| 11 | It offers two schemes — one in which the benefits are guaranteed and another in which the benefits are notionally linked to an investment fund , and may , therefore , fluctuate . |
| 12 | At the undergraduate level it offers two ordinary half courses in European Community Law , and four honours courses available to LLB honours students . |
| 13 | More precisely , it fulfils two top-level functions : |
| 14 | It fulfils two top-level functions : |
| 15 | It needs two teaspoons of salt to every 2½ gallons . |
| 16 | It needs two teaspoons of salt to every 2½ gallons . |
| 17 | i , but it needs two of us , it needs somebody on the inside and somebody on the out just to stop them flying through it . |
| 18 | Above all , it highlights two aspects of the curriculum . |
| 19 | It looks two ways |
| 20 | But , as a commercially viable variety in our climate , it has two drawbacks , firstly its lateness in ripening , and , secondly , in normal British weather , a dull russety-greenish colour which does not suggest the hidden flavour . |
| 21 | It has two classes — hard class and soft class . |
| 22 | The time has come for the party to choose and , in the final analysis , it has two coherent policies to choose from . |
| 23 | Equipped with 70 cast rings it has two outer wings which fold hydraulically . |
| 24 | It has two wheels instead on one , this means that you do n't have to take any of the weight of the load or keep the cart balanced , so loads can easily be tipped . |
| 25 | It has two interesting components : calculated risk and cunning . |
| 26 | It has two organisations , Mossad Le Aliyah Beth ( Institution of Intelligence and Special Services ) , responsible for external espionage , and Shin Beth ( the Security and Counter Espionage service ) , which looks after internal security . |
| 27 | Now it has two security guards . |
| 28 | It has two uses : |
| 29 | In military terms , it has two preoccupations : Belize in the north and the Falklands in the south . |
| 30 | He discovered it has two electrons that could be described as ready and waiting to form chemical bonds . |