Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] two [noun pl] " 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 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 . |
6 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | When the frame was unfolded and set up she saw that it contained two photographs — one of a good-looking white-haired clergyman wearing a biretta , and the other of a ‘ sweet-faced ’ woman , her slender hand fondling the large cameo brooch at the throat of her dark dress . |
9 | Furthermore , the above analysis may be justifiably criticised on the grounds that it compares two surveys which employed different agencies to reach their estimates of the prevalence of known opioid use . |
10 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
11 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |
12 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
13 | This way of putting the hypothesis is useful in that it does two things . |
14 | The first is to The North : From the Aare to the Rhine Falls discover that it has two gates , and to find out why , it is necessary to learn a little about the town 's origins and early history . |
15 | The US government felt that it possessed two weapons with which it could influence the Russians . |
16 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
17 | The gathering perception that pen input has been over-hyped was reflected in the fact that it slipped two points to 8% , and speech technology does n't have many friends either , dropping one point to just 7% . |
18 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
19 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
20 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
21 | And it says two families discover how the divide between the north and south is narrowing . |
22 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster . |
25 | But the tendency to project backwards in a single ( standard-based ) dimension can be seen in the work of many scholars , and it has two consequences that are of interest here . |
26 | If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ? |
27 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
28 | We can speak of an orbital as being full if it contains two electrons , half-filled if it has a single electron , or empty . |
29 | IF IT HAS TWO ENGINES , WHERE 'S THE OTHER ONE ? |
30 | cos it has two bands of rib |