Example sentences of "[conj] it had two " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when a police officer went to examine the Nissan Cherry he discovered that it had two bald tyres . |
| 2 | A solitary predator it resembled the grey wolf , except that it had two horns — one long ivory one in the centre of its forehead , and the other a squat and curved tusk at the tip of its nose . |
| 3 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 4 | The company called it the most significant announcement in its personal computer history , adding that it had two aims : firstly , to become the number one in personal systems in Europe ; second , to be the number one supplier and implementor of choice for client-server technology . |
| 5 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
| 6 | In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified . |
| 7 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 8 | This policy may have seemed ‘ reasonable ’ to the civil service , but it had two major flaws . |
| 9 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 10 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |