Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 2 | There was also a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 3 | Quality 's main geographical markets are the UK and Australia , where it has two offices , one in Melbourne and one in Sydney . |
| 4 | As Gore Vidal once remarked on TV , ‘ America has one-party , the Property Party , although it has two wings , the Republican and Democratic ’ . |
| 5 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 6 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 7 | But the victor was vanquished in turn once it lost two thirds of its tail . |
| 8 | If it takes two to make an argument then each side must choose an issue over which some values ( ideals ? ) conflict . |
| 9 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 10 | We can speak of an orbital as being full if it contains two electrons , half-filled if it has a single electron , or empty . |
| 11 | IF IT HAS TWO ENGINES , WHERE 'S THE OTHER ONE ? |
| 12 | cos it has two bands of rib |
| 13 | So that makes it worth three rather than one cos it adds two on . |
| 14 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 15 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 16 | Perhaps , they argue , it is because it suffered two sudden floods in quick succession at a time of year — summer — when the invertebrate populations are least adapted to cope . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Because it costs two and a half times as much to collect as the money that is received . |
| 20 | Space is limited and the only other tank I have is a 21″ cube and I ca n't put him in there because it contains two small G. jurupari , a pair of G. brasiliensis , a pair each of Crenicara filamentosa , Cichlasoma sajica and Butterfly Rams , and an Ancistrus . |
| 21 | Porto Alegre was identified because it has two of the very few general practice training programmes in the country . |
| 22 | The disadvantages , however , are that it would be much more expensive to construct , requiring the construction of several bridges , and the fact that while it straddles two council areas , there will be no possibility of support from Ards Borough Council as their Tourist Officer has an agreement with Down District Council not to support a tourist railway in the Ards area as there is already one under way in the Down District area at Downpatrick . |
| 23 | The latter is of particular significance , since it allows two way communication : input and output through an LCD screen , using a special pen . |
| 24 | The firm has been deluged by applications for tickets after it offered two flights to Europe with every Hoover product bought worth more than £100 . |
| 25 | Industrial conglomerate BTR opened 3p stronger at 594p after it announced two joint ventures in China . |
| 26 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 27 | It used to hold young offenders before it closed two years ago.Now it 's just about ready to take immingrants detained by the Home Office . |
| 28 | THE Alliance Party scored six of the best when it added two more councillors to its group of four on Ards Council . |
| 29 | In 1979 , the DUP received a major boost to its fortunes when it gained two more Westminster MPs . |
| 30 | IBM Japan Ltd is not risking the opprobrium that fell on Eastman Kodak Co when it fired two thirds of its Japanese researchers and withdrew offers of employment it had made to graduates , but it does want to get its 25,000-strong workforce down by 1,200 . |