Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 2 | It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider . |
| 3 | If the warren system is a big one it may require two guns to do the killing . |
| 4 | If the wood is very badly stained , it may require two applications of bleach . |
| 5 | If a company is to become enduringly successful , says Mr Chandler , it must make two kinds of what he calls ‘ first-mover ’ investments . |
| 6 | You said it might make two sheets . |
| 7 | Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done . |
| 8 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 9 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
| 10 | The idea of using two microphones appeals to me because it could stimulate two ears . |
| 11 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 12 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 13 | That would be more expensive per aircraft , certainly , but it would recognise two realities . |
| 14 | It would have two elements , combining the rates and the poll tax . |
| 15 | It would have two minutes at the end ! |
| 16 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 17 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 18 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 19 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 20 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 21 | A standard monetarist prediction of that decision would have been that it would produce two years of boom , followed by growing inflation and balance of payments deficit . |
| 22 | As a contribution to the reconciliation process , the FMLN announced that it would release two combatants on March 16 to stand trial locally ( rather than in the USA , as the US government had previously insisted ) on charges of murdering two US advisers whose helicopter was shot down in January 1991 [ see pp. 37956-57 ] . |
| 23 | It will do two things wo n't it ? |
| 24 | It will contain two instructions or authorisations . |
| 25 | Professor Baldassare Conticello , the Soprintendente , estimates that at this rate it will take two generations before the whole of Pompeii is once more in a stable condition . |
| 26 | Even with the best economic policy it will take two years from this point to go through the unavoidable stages of deflation and recession to reach the start of recovery . |
| 27 | While Crescendo has not firmed up its plans enough to announce what specific products are to follow , SynOptics says that in the third quarter of the year it will launch two FDDI unshielded twisted pair hub products : the Model 3905 FDDI UTP Host Module is claimed to be compatible with all existing SynOptics System 3000 modules , and will list for £3,630 . |
| 28 | And if in carrying he is delayed out for the night it will count two works . |
| 29 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 30 | It can wait two minutes till you 've finished , now go and get moving |