Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb mod] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mute them so that I can switch two wirelesses on at the same time , because if you have two on together they screech . |
| 2 | I put the receiver down for a moment so that I could take two hands to the strawboard . |
| 3 | I 'd just like to say that you can have two mothers and that you can two mothers quite happily , and that when you talk about women having the right to reproductive technology that includes single women , lesbians , not just heterosexual women . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Gaitskell did not think that the issue of public ownership was ‘ sterile ’ and during the heated debates on Clause IV he stated : ‘ I conclude that we should make two things clear to the country . |
| 5 | The behaviourists insist that we can observe two things : first , what an animal does , and second , its previous environmental history . |
| 6 | Not at all , I thought you might , you remember you had a quick preview of that , a few months ago , and you 'll be pleased to know that the Chief Officers have now decided that the best way of dealing with it is for each , no first of all they decided that they 'll recommend two members for the signing of the charter , that 's the first step , it 's quite a step forward , remembering they . |
| 7 | HULL officials are travelling to South Wales this weekend ‘ to talk , not to watch ’ and are confident that they will sign two players , one believed to be the 26-year-old Bridgend wing Glen Webbe . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As a contribution to the reconciliation process , the FMLN announced that it would release two combatants on March 16 to stand trial locally ( rather than in the USA , as the US government had previously insisted ) on charges of murdering two US advisers whose helicopter was shot down in January 1991 [ see pp. 37956-57 ] . |
| 10 | A standard monetarist prediction of that decision would have been that it would produce two years of boom , followed by growing inflation and balance of payments deficit . |
| 11 | Starting with 30 monitoring points , the system offers massive flexibility due to the fact that it can substitute two wires , punctuated by individually programmed chips , for the massive bunch of wires which would be needed by a conventional system . |
| 12 | What , thus , may we infer exactly from Johnson 's remark that he would go two miles out of his way to meet Monboddo ? |
| 13 | It 's bad enough that he should get two things wrong about what is perhaps one of the best known poems in the English language . |
| 14 | There was a flash and a deep roar , followed by utter silence … a silence so profound that the Collector was convinced that he could hear two parakeets quarrelling in a tamarind fifty yards away . |