Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] two things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grafting an additional polarizing region into the anterior margin has done two things — the limb bud has widened and the polarizing region has re-specified the position of the cells in the anterior part of the limb so that they form additional digits . |
| 2 | A TITLE like The Bellarosa Connection tends to imply two things : first , that the book will be a jacket-straining 600 pages ; and second , that its author will be Robert Ludlum . |
| 3 | The current obsession with pseudo-Victorian and other bogus ‘ historical ’ styles imposed willy-nilly and quite regardless of the true age of the pub , seems to suggest two things ; firstly that pub designers and fitters have completely lost their way , both in recognising and respecting what is genuinely old and in looking for a wholeheartedly modern pub style ; secondly that there is some king of awareness , correct but misguided , that people like their pubs to look old and feel familiar . |
| 4 | By paying careful attention to what Marx fails to say ( his ‘ silences ’ ) as well as to what he makes explicit , Althusser hopes to recover two things : the questions Marx was trying to answer , and the general theoretical assumptions underlying his replies . |
| 5 | The provisional phylogeny used here seeks to do two things . |