Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a mineral , corundum has proved its value to man partly as an abrasive , which allowed it to play a key role in the shaping of jade , and partly because it has contributed two of the most keenly sought after transparent coloured gems , sapphire and ruby . |
| 2 | Fremont , California-based Cirrus Logic Inc says it has received two shareholders ' class action lawsuits alleging it violated US securities laws ; in the usual phrase , it dismisses them as without merit and intends to contest them vigorously . |
| 3 | Faber 's agreement came into effect on 1st May ; it has appointed two part time merchandisers to support its reps in monitoring an agreed list of 400 Faber titles . |
| 4 | It has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft stating that it has infringed two Stac patents . |
| 5 | It has undergone two stringent two years of stringent tests and is produced in two forms a carbonated and a still version . |
| 6 | It has developed two types of condition . |
| 7 | It has ignored two suggested reforms to bring Britain into line with America : acting against insider dealers through civil suits that require a lower standard of proof than criminal cases ; and centralising investigation and enforcement in a single body , probably the Securities and Investments Board . |
| 8 | Michael Manser sold Castle Mill soon after its conversion was complete and since that time it has had two further owners , the first of whom installed a lift linking the ground-floor entrance hall with the first-floor dining-room , the generous volume of which has been somewhat reduced by the intrusion of the lift shaft into its south-west corner . |
| 9 | In return , it has acquired two lawyers — Waddington and Mellor — plus a Wykehamist peer , Lord Ferrers . |
| 10 | Yamaichi is expected to become the 20th market-maker this summer ; it has recruited two of S.G. Warburg 's best analysts . |
| 11 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 12 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 13 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
| 14 | It helped to have two such formidable singers taking the two female dragon roles : Anne Collins as a fruity Princess Clarissa , tyrannical in a general 's uniform of black leather , and Jane Eaglen as Fata Morgana , like Katisha in Mikado only more so . |
| 15 | BellSouth Telecommunications also issued $450m of 10-year 6.25% notes non-callable for life , at $99.557% to yield 6.31% via Morgan Stanley & Co Inc as lead manager , and said that it plans to redeem two outstanding bond issues on June 7 . |
| 16 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 17 | It 's got a main street , and I think it 'd got two other streets and that 's about all and sure enough one of them was Lilac Avenue . |
| 18 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 19 | Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects . |
| 20 | Enough of it survived to show two canthari , one of which ( pI . |
| 21 | It aims to answer two basic questions : How much should be ordered and when ? |
| 22 | Sometimes it helps to produce two or three alternative structures , embodying quite different approaches to the same material . |
| 23 | It meant spending two months living in the spare bedroom and the kitchen , the only rooms not used by the crew , while the cast — including Vanessa Redgrave , Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and , fresh from The Silence of the Lambs , Anthony Hopkins — were filming . |
| 24 | But while a cruise across the Mediterranean with Clive Kemp had posed no problems at all , the very thought of being alone on a boat with Nathan Bryce for however long it took to sail two thousand miles brought her out in a cold sweat and turned her insides to jelly . |
| 25 | Throughout the 1980s , it battled to achieve two crucial , strategic shifts : to reduce its dependence on bulk , low-margin , commodity chemicals which tend to swing wildly with the economic cycle — in favour of high value-added , high-margin ‘ effect ’ chemicals ; and to cut the share of sales accounted for by the UK . |
| 26 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the Senate resolved its position regarding notification of abortion for minors , on which it had adopted two contradictory measures in July . |
| 28 | When I was filmed wearing a bikini , it had to have two lower halves . |
| 29 | On Dec. 12 a Swedish company , Brown Boveri , admitted that it had sold two presses used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons , to Iraq . |
| 30 | It said that in reaching its decision , it had to balance two competing factors : ( a ) The public interest that requires the evidence to remain secret . |