Example sentences of "it [verb] two [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is kept alone due to its aggressive behaviour — it attacked two large Pacus and a 1½″ long Arrowana and had to be swiftly moved .
2 It represents two inseparable qualities .
3 Industrial conglomerate BTR opened 3p stronger at 594p after it announced two joint ventures in China .
4 At the time , the mill , which was powered by the Painswick Stream , was engaged in the cloth trade , as it housed two fulling stocks and a gig mill .
5 By the early part of the 18th century , it housed two fulling mills and in 1709 was leased or sold by John Freame to Thomas Yates or Yeates .
6 At the undergraduate level it offers two ordinary half courses in European Community Law , and four honours courses available to LLB honours students .
7 More precisely , it fulfils two top-level functions :
8 It fulfils two top-level functions :
9 Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join .
10 The value charge of such a word reflects the mores of the language users , and they may be unaware that it has two distinguishable components to its meaning .
11 The reader is invited to study the two pencils unc Pencil ( i ) is real and symmetric ; it has two equal eigenvalues unc = 1 and the spectral matrix is of elementary Jordan block form ; it is defective , with only the single eigenvector{ 2,1 } .
12 It has two intertwined trunks . ’
13 It has two parallel lines drawn across its face .
14 This term ‘ natural ’ is inherently confusing for it has two distinct meanings .
15 If light is moving in the direction labelled z in the figure , it has two distinct possibilities of polarisation , corresponding to oscillations in the two mutually perpendicular directions x and y respectively .
16 It has two distinct kinds of variables : AND symbols and OR symbols .
17 It has two essential components : identification of the debt and a clear statement that proceedings will be issued if payment is not made within a certain period , say ten days .
18 It has two round firebowls with grills that tuck neatly inside when you fold the barbecue up and it has removable legs for easy storage .
19 The time has come for the party to choose and , in the final analysis , it has two coherent policies to choose from .
20 Equipped with 70 cast rings it has two outer wings which fold hydraulically .
21 It has two detachable heads .
22 The regime continues to feel that it has two chief enemies : Iraq locally and the United States , the Great Satan , farther off .
23 Despite the present bleak , prairie-like appearance of much of East Anglia , it has two major advantages for the field archaeologist .
24 I have a certain nostalgic respect for that kind of 1970s ' ultra-Leftist-womanist impossibilism , but for me it has two major problems .
25 It has two vacant 8-bit slots , and the Tatung monitor is capable of 60Hz .
26 It has two obvious drawbacks : first , it is time-consuming , which usually limits the design to a simple one for ease of repetition ; and second , every card is itself a unique ‘ performance ’ , allowing no paste-ups and no major blunders in execution .
27 It has two interesting components : calculated risk and cunning .
28 It has two projecting gables with stepped and panelled decoration .
29 The fluorite structure ( see figure 3.27 ) differs from those described above in that its stoichiometry is AB2 and also in that it has two different coordination numbers — and 4 .
30 Unfortunately , it has two incidental weaknesses .
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