Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now of course he has two failures to build upon .
2 AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent .
3 At its highest point , a turn to the right up a pathless incline leads to the subsidiary height of pike which has two cairns ; from here the route , still pathless , heads due south , passing the three Whernside Tarns and rises to join a wall coming up from the left , this being kept alongside to the summit .
4 In those days we would always start the hay-making at Hury , a parcel of land we owned two miles down the road .
5 It follows that this approach may also be applied for other types of space-times which contain two commuting Killing vectors .
6 From the stratigraphical point of view we have two formations .
7 From the functional point of view you require two types of working ferrets .
8 Only 3% ( 4/129 ) of patients with dementia who attended two neurology outpatient departments were not admitted to psychiatric hospital .
9 During her 12-year career with BNFL she spent two years as a business manager in Fuel Division 's Commercial Department and this experience should prove invaluable in her new role .
10 In addition they had two camel guns , small cannons which could be mounted on saddles and fired from the backs of camels ; for the circumstances these had been mounted on the back of a plush sofa which had been recovered from the rampart where it had served during the rains .
11 In practice it overlooks two things .
12 In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted .
13 In Trautenau they have two churchyards ,
14 No from Asda you bought two Duplo things , well
15 In fact it becomes two articles — one for punchcard machines still called ‘ Simply Silver ’ and one for electronics featured separately as ‘ Silver Scene ’ .
16 In June he gave two performances in Taipei .
17 Not without difficulty he undid two spring clips and lifted the lid .
18 The rest is history , but one which records her pivotal work with the Ordinary Life initiative more than ten years ago , from which so much else has flowed ; working with Maureen Oswin on bereavement which culminated two years ago in the latter 's Am I Allowed to Cry ? , helping to get the Campaign for Mentally Handicapped People ( now Values into Action ) off the ground ; respite care ; and the initiative to get children out of long-stay hospitals .
19 There is wide variation in the size of men 's testicles , but on average they measure two inches long , an inch across and one-and-a-quarter inches in width .
20 ‘ I said I said it to Arnie we had two choices : that file on the committee table or Crocus had never happened and surely was n't happening now .
21 Martin Parr was not a hasty man , but before he went to sleep he made two phone calls .
22 at Mansfield which had two stations then , Great Central and the old London , Midland , Scottish , which was one of my delights anyway , engines were , er they were to me .
23 The suggestion that there might be a ‘ precoeliac ’ state was first made by Weinstein who described two patients with dermatitis herpetiformis and normal jejunal biopsies in whom typical coeliac like enteropathy developed some weeks after 20 g gluten was added to their already gluten containing diet .
24 It only shows itself if by mischance you get two haemophilia genes , two recessives , at that point in your , in your erm you 're in very serious trouble .
25 Censorship of writing , drama and film on grounds of morality is achieved by laws which apply two sets of standards .
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