Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] 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 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the Senate resolved its position regarding notification of abortion for minors , on which it had adopted two contradictory measures in July . |
| 16 | On Dec. 12 a Swedish company , Brown Boveri , admitted that it had sold two presses used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons , to Iraq . |
| 17 | However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma . |
| 18 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 19 | It had taken two hours . |
| 20 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 21 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 22 | By July 1988 it had published two issues of a newsletter . |
| 23 | The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs . |
| 24 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 25 | The firm announced that it had suspended two of the managing directors responsible for the violations . |
| 26 | A jeep stopped just outside Brigade H.Q The two stretchers it carried contained two bodies , each wrapped tightly in an Army blanket . |
| 27 | It 's lost two senior partners to Yorkshire firms in little over a year . |
| 28 | It 's got two moveable walls to change the size and floating floors to change the depth . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's got two different reds . ’ |
| 30 | Look it 's got two legs and it 's got two plaits the same as me . |