Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact of its presence was all I was going to learn , however , as it had revolving combination locks which were easy enough to undo , but only if one had two hours to spend on each lock , which I had n't . |
| 2 | He says two sons called on these fellows to leave the field . |
| 3 | Two probes situated on each side of the deletion zone were used : the srRNA probe and the CO III probe ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 4 | As it is not obvious that fluctuations in the galaxy distribution should exactly match those of the mass density field ( for example , if galaxies form at the peaks of the mass-density field they will be more correlated than the mass ) , we allow the variance of the two distributions to vary on large scales by the square of a bias factor , b , defined as |
| 5 | The difference between the two factions touches on basic questions of the National Front 's ideology . |
| 6 | The agreement calls for the two companies to co-operate on continued development of Citrix products that provide multi-user and network extensions for future Microsoft operating systems , notably Windows NT . |
| 7 | The two companies combined on 1 January to form one of the world 's biggest publishing groups . |
| 8 | She gained her Queen 's Award after spending two years working on several community projects including talking to young people about drug abuse and helping with conservation . |
| 9 | A print by Stockdale , in the year 1810 , of the rear of the Church certainly shows two figures engaged on some work , possibly carpentry . |
| 10 | The chiefs of staff of the two powers decided on 23 October 1950 that the Nato Standing Group would be supplemented by Anglo-American staff " conversations in the event of global war " . |
| 11 | At this point the two villages started on different paths . |
| 12 | Two games fit on one disk . |
| 13 | The brass represents a woman sitting up in bed with two females standing on each side of the bed . |
| 14 | " Now , " he continued , not looking at them , " the two men standing on either side of the gate in front of us have been there since morning . |
| 15 | Used for example to indicate the connection between two modules used on different computers for the same purpose . |
| 16 | Richard and the two Kings met on 7 October at Châtillon-sur-Indre , on the border between Touraine and Berry . |
| 17 | The first real brush between the two sides came on 17 December when Cumberland 's horsemen approached the rear of the baggage train between Shap and Penrith , but it was not till next day that a more serious encounter occurred . |
| 18 | When the two sides re-convened on 7th May , the non-treaty ranks had been swelled by the arrival of the Palouse under Hahtalekin and Husishusis Kute ( Little Baldhead or Preacher ) , described by Howard as ‘ bright-eyed and oily ’ whose ‘ manner of extreme cunning inspired distrust ’ . |
| 19 | So the two dictionaries differed on another dimension . |
| 20 | The Youth Club has two sections meeting on different nights — Junior Section 11–14 years and Senior Section 14–16 years . |
| 21 | The Youth Club has two sections meeting on different nights — Junior Section 11–14 years and Senior Section 14–16 years . |
| 22 | Observations from the only two grammarians to comment on this aspect of the meaning of let ( Cotte 1982b and Mittwoch 1990 ) put us on the trail of the explanation . |
| 23 | Nigel Briers , the Leicestershire captain , thereafter persevered with his slow bowlers , Peter Hepworth and Laurie Potter , and the remaining two wickets put on 89 runs . |