Example sentences of "it [vb past] 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 | Industrial conglomerate BTR opened 3p stronger at 594p after it announced two joint ventures in China . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps , they argue , it is because it suffered two sudden floods in quick succession at a time of year — summer — when the invertebrate populations are least adapted to cope . |
| 7 | In so far as the flat told us anything at all , it told two conflicting stories . |
| 8 | It comprised two main elements , professional and academic , each sub-divided . |
| 9 | ferry timetables forced a quick visit , but it allowed two good days ' walking . |
| 10 | It followed two huge interest rate rises of first two per cent , then another three . |
| 11 | Indeed , it required two outstanding saves by Woods from Kane and Grant before the interval to forestall the home team 's collapse . |
| 12 | Between March and May 1937 , it upheld two key measures , the National Labor Relations Act and the old age pension section of the Social Security Act . |
| 13 | It contained two narrow iron bedsteads furnished with dingy bed-linen and grey army blankets . |
| 14 | It contained two main provisions . |
| 15 | Behind it lay two political motives : first , to see the Plan as the first step towards an effective political integration , and second the political conviction that stability and union within Western Europe rested ultimately upon a rapprochement between France and West Germany . |
| 16 | It overshadowed two other events ; A. L. Barber , former Secretary of the London & Suburban Traction Co. , retired and J. B. Mackinnon , the Schedules Superintendent , died suddenly on 13 September . |
| 17 | Later in the same month , the DES published its Green Paper , Higher Education in England outside the Universities : Policy , Funding and Management , in which it presented two alternative models for a national body : what it called Model A , which was closely modelled on the one advocated by the local authorities on 15 July , and Model B , which was the one favoured by the DES . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 19 | Then it put two Croatian towns , ancient Dubrovnik , on the Adriatic , and Vukovar , a pretty Danube town , under siege ; to punish or reverse Croatia 's secession , said the army . |
| 20 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week announced that it has expanded the number of software and communications products offered under its Distributed Computing Model to the DPX/20 Unix and DPS GCOS systems , and it introduced two new models of the DPX/20 , based on IBM 's Power RISC architecture . |
| 21 | It had two long handles called ‘ stangs ’ , like the shafts of a horse-drawn wagon . |
| 22 | This policy may have seemed ‘ reasonable ’ to the civil service , but it had two major flaws . |
| 23 | It had two internal courts , with the principal office entrance from the east , a secondary entrance from Downing Street , and the entrance to the Foreign Secretary 's residence under a porte-cochère from the park . |
| 24 | Although there is nothing particularly unusual in this degree of favouritism , it had two serious consequences : |
| 25 | It had two vertical cylinders with direct rod drive to cast-iron wheels with shrunk-on tyres of wrought iron , the first of their type ; most importantly , it pioneered the discharge of exhaust steam through a converging nozzle blast pipe , in the chimney , greatly increasing combustion intensity and steam production . |
| 26 | In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified . |
| 27 | It had two main effects , the first of which was beneficial , in that the School gained a certain measure of independence from the Town Council , for various other public bodies were invited to nominate Governors . |
| 28 | It had two fulling stocks , a gig mill and in addition , a grist mill , not an uncommon combination . |
| 29 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |
| 30 | And when a police officer went to examine the Nissan Cherry he discovered that it had two bald tyres . |