Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 2 | However , it differs in two ways from the approach long-wave theory takes to industrial change . |
| 3 | but then the bell does n't go till nine , although sometimes it goes at two minutes to nine and sometimes it goes at five past nine |
| 4 | It loops for two miles through the city , lined with splendid palaces dating from the 14th century . |
| 5 | Remember that it rhymes in two places : " " A tuba , " I said , " or some treacle , Or a toggle to sew on your mac , Or a tray or a ticket , a tree or a thicket , A thistle , a taper , a tack . " |
| 6 | It stands in two acres of landscaped garden which was once a paddock for horses , and has a delightful lily pond and a revolving Victorian summer house . |
| 7 | It looks like two squares . |
| 8 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 9 | It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural . |
| 10 | The job takes forty eight man hours , and I want it done in two hours . |
| 11 | As already noted , it occurs in two parts . |
| 12 | There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions , not three . |
| 13 | It came in two colours , medium brown or medium grey ; it shone with a slightly oily sheen . |
| 14 | happening in our time but , but and you think of what it says in Two Timothy with the |
| 15 | That means more home helps , more meals on wheels and more money available for home improvement grants for the disabled.The future of the threatened homes will be discussed by the social services committee when it meets in two weeks . |
| 16 | It arrived about two months after the news about my father , although it was only much later that I was told what was in it . |
| 17 | Almost 20 people aged 16–25 attended the Young Persons ' Health Clinic at Park Place Health Centre when it opened for two hours on February 7 . |
| 18 | This afternoon it poured for two hours solid . |
| 19 | It was like a rubbish dump , and yet there 's good old erm , grounds man , as soon as the had gone , they were down there , there was half a dozen of them and they got it cleaned in two days . |
| 20 | Thus if a close approximation to such a transformer features in the bridge circuit of figure 7.10(a) with its secondary winding tapped so that it divides into two portions having turns N 1 and N 2 , the ratio of the potential differences across these secondary portions will be near enough . |
| 21 | If its energy ever exceeds 1000 , it divides into two offspring . |
| 22 | This proviso was fundamental , and we can find it expressed in two letters of this period on the preference to be given to the claim of monastic life over every other demand — a theme of central importance in his thought . |
| 23 | Bonking … bonking … it sounds like two pieces of wood rubbing together . |
| 24 | The speed of a pulse of light is the distance it travels between two events , divided by the time interval between the events . |
| 25 | It sprang from two beliefs : that a radical review of provision of primary care was required and that no established procedure should remain unquestioned . |
| 26 | Significantly , it opens with two photographs of the newly refurbished library in summer 1983 , complete with carpets and handsome modern furniture . |
| 27 | It opens onto two acres of gardens and woodland . |
| 28 | No doubt she will be hoping that The Corn is Green will draw more of her friends to the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , when it opens for two weeks on Monday , April 27th . |
| 29 | Unless it rains within two hours , sprinkle with about 3 litres of water per square metre , avoiding direct water pressure on the surface . |
| 30 | The , it consists of two strands which are made of sugar phosphates and which spiral round each other , and the strands are linked together like , like the , the rungs of a ladder by bases , and there are four bases , and and always pairs up with and er and always pairs up with so that the pattern of bases on one of these sugar phosphate strands always has a corresponding pattern on the other . |