Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I here is nothing odd in that , for the two activities call for separate sets of accomplishments . |
| 2 | At the time the two solicitors worked for different law practices in Kirkwall . |
| 3 | In other words , every two pixels accounts for one byte of information . |
| 4 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 5 | Two implications arise for modern state forms . |
| 6 | You can tell how preoccupied they are , when two dykes settle for old chestnuts by the seventeenth-century male metaphysicals . |
| 7 | However , the two seats reserved for Unionist MPs were not taken up because of Unionist opposition to the 1985 Agreement ( provision for the existence of the Body , first mooted in 1980 , having been made in the Agreement ) ; Molyneaux dismissed the meeting as a " social occasion " . |
| 8 | Currently the Tories hold twenty three seats , Labour seventeen , and twenty two for the Liberal Democrats , and it 's hard to see tomorrow 's vote allowing any party to take the thirty two seats needed for outright control . |
| 9 | PRISON conditions for two Britons jailed for illegal entry to Iraq have improved . |
| 10 | The figures for the London Boroughs present several problems of comparison : the estimates for both education and socio-economic deprivation refer to the entire Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) , rather than to the individual Boroughs ; the estimates based on population density and for transport and recreation redistribution should be the larger of the two figures presented for comparative purposes , in order to include the provisions for the Metropolitan Police ; finally , where relevant , we have added average expenditure assessments for the Greater London Council ( GLC ) to each London Borough , in order to obtain total figures . |
| 11 | Hurricane-force winds as two lifeboats search for missing divers |
| 12 | The two partners tendered for several workplace nursery projects but in each case found themselves losing out to competitors who were already running nurseries . |
| 13 | Although that struggle brought about changes in the formal relationship between the press and politicians , it did not fundamentally alter the natural attraction that these two spheres had for each other . |
| 14 | Twenty two patients referred for liquid stool incontinence were considered . |
| 15 | Or fifteen men working for two hours , two men working for fifteen hours . |
| 16 | ( ii ) Two children qualifying for reduced price holidays ( but not free holidays ) count as one full fare paying passenger . |
| 17 | There are two burnets grown for herbal use : great burnet , Sanguisorba officinalis , and this one , formerly called S. minor , or lessor burnet . |
| 18 | It might mean that the same ten pupils were absent for the whole week ; or it might mean that overall , five pupils were absent for a whole week , plus two pupils absent for two days , plus 21 pupils absent for one day . |
| 19 | As a result , when the two women went for that walk — which was followed by several others — the topic Sarah was so anxious to discuss just never came up . |
| 20 | As soon as a post 's routine was established it would be attacked : Sergeant James and two sappers lay for two days watching a post before deciding that breakfast-time was the right moment for such an attack . |
| 21 | She sat at the window , looking out on the gardens , not wanting to be reminded of her ordeal as her two companions searched for any clues that might have been left . |
| 22 | INDIAN police surrounded a housing estate in a Bombay suburb yesterday to flush out two gunmen wanted for last Friday 's series of bombings in the city in which at least 250 people died . |