Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] two " in BNC.
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1 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
2 | It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider . |
3 | Yamamura said it may take two or three years until the positive effect of the yen 's rise appears . |
4 | If the wood is very badly stained , it may require two applications of bleach . |
5 | If the warren system is a big one it may require two guns to do the killing . |
6 | Yes yes right I 'll see what I can do by September I should be able to do a fair bit by then Yeah well I say I 've done the doll , that 's for August that 's for the er Beckley fete but it 's for , Friends of Beckley Church and it 's guess the doll 's birth date which as you said as you said it should have two |
7 | In order for the market segmentation process to provide a valid input to company planning for products and markets , it must fulfil two basic requirements . |
8 | If a company is to become enduringly successful , says Mr Chandler , it must make two kinds of what he calls ‘ first-mover ’ investments . |
9 | You said it might make two sheets . |
10 | He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements . |
11 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
12 | Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done . |
13 | 10,000 homes will be built to the North of Swindon and it 'll create two thousand jobs . |
14 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
15 | IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’ |
16 | And it could move two of the biggest races of the flat and jumping seasons , the Derby and the Cheltenham Gold Cup , from their hallowed mid-week slots to a Saturday . |
17 | It also became clear it could take two or three days of fierce ministerial talks to sort out the division of the £244.5 billion public spending cake . |
18 | It might go on f it , it , it could take two or three years . |
19 | The idea of using two microphones appeals to me because it could stimulate two ears . |
20 | but to , to go abroad three times , it 'd be a hundred and , it 'd cost two hun two hundred pounds |
21 | Hope , ho hope , write properly , if it was hoop it 'd have two Os would n't it ? |
22 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
23 | Why do you think it did n't fail er early on as a strike , er a as the fact it was only predicted it would last two or three weeks but it was obvious at the time it was gon na go on . |
24 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
25 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
26 | It would require two million for the costs to be covered , so the Spanish government has to make up the shortfall . |
27 | That would be more expensive per aircraft , certainly , but it would recognise two realities . |
28 | It would have two elements , combining the rates and the poll tax . |
29 | It would have two minutes at the end ! |
30 | THE TOWN of Nagasaki said yesterday it would earmark two million yen ( £12,000 ) in its 1993 budget towards aiding Korean survivors of the 1945 US atomic bombing of the city , but the Koreans , who were working in Nagasaki as imported labourers , must come to Japan to receive the free medical treatment . |