Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 5 | Guar gum is a complex polysaccharide which can not be digested or absorbed and it appears to have two effects . |
| 6 | Enough of it survived to show two canthari , one of which ( pI . |
| 7 | It aims to answer two basic questions : How much should be ordered and when ? |
| 8 | Sometimes it helps to produce two or three alternative structures , embodying quite different approaches to the same material . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When I was filmed wearing a bikini , it had to have two lower halves . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To make the offer especially palatable it proposes to accept two now and the other two later . |
| 15 | Would it help to buy two more , given the fact that they are shoaling fish ? |
| 16 | This does separate members of a run of keys , but it fails to separate two or more records that randomize to a particular storage position . |