Example sentences of "it [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
| 2 | It crosses two mountain ranges , 561 rivers , 124 km of permafrost and more than 1000 km of West Siberian bog and marsh on its journey through five time zones to Western Europe . |
| 3 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 4 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 5 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 6 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 7 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |
| 8 | It offers two schemes — one in which the benefits are guaranteed and another in which the benefits are notionally linked to an investment fund , and may , therefore , fluctuate . |
| 9 | It offers two options , Tessa with a Plus and Tessa Plus Income . |
| 10 | If these problems can be overcome , it offers two advantages that chained overflow record handling does not . |
| 11 | Underwritten by the Economic Insurance Company , it offers two levels of cover — gold card or silver — and three hospital bands — ranging from most private hospitals in the UK , including London , at Band A , to NHS provincial teaching and general hospitals , and lower cost private hospitals , at Band C. |
| 12 | It involved two satyrs and a woman and was very obscene indeed . |
| 13 | It moved two things which put it into operation , you know and er I could turn the knob and it 'd get the whole thing going , it 'd get you inside , it 'd register that it 'd been , when you shut the door , as soon as you shut , in the toilets , as soon as you shut the door the penny dropped down , see what I mean . |
| 14 | It needs two teaspoons of salt to every 2½ gallons . |
| 15 | It needs two teaspoons of salt to every 2½ gallons . |
| 16 | Above all , it highlights two aspects of the curriculum . |
| 17 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 18 | It looks two ways |
| 19 | It has two functions : |
| 20 | It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches . |
| 21 | According to Electronic News it has no OEM customers as yet , but it has two deals cooking . |
| 22 | Quite a sensitive species , it has two forms , the emerse and the submerse . |
| 23 | It has two positions . |
| 24 | Again it has two positions , labelled 0 and n on the Silver and Knitmaster and R and P on the Brother . |
| 25 | It 's not too tall , so you ca n't expect vast expansion potential — it has two 5.25-inch and one 3.5-inch free drive bays . |
| 26 | IF IT HAS TWO ENGINES , WHERE 'S THE OTHER ONE ? |
| 27 | The Bosch Cordless Screwdriver ( electric ) is easy to use ; it has two screwdriver bits ( flat blade and cross top ) and is rechargeable , so can be wall-mounted in its charging unit . |
| 28 | It has two magnifications 80× and 200× which allows you to view specimens with a combination of available and internal light . |
| 29 | It has two merits : it stops detergent from getting stuck in the dispenser and therefore wasted , and it allows a highly concentrated washing solution to engulf the clothes for the first ten minutes of a wash . |
| 30 | It has two components : a quoted margin above ( although sometimes below ) the reference rate , and a capital gain or loss element which is calculated under the assumption that the difference between the current price of the FRN and the maturity value is spread evenly over the remaining life of the FRN . |