Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration . |
| 2 | Elements other than in the uth , vth columns and rows are unaltered from those in A ; at the intersections of the uth , vth columns an rows the new elements are given by ( 3 ) ( with Buv = 0 ) , while the remaining elements Biu , Biv in the uth , vth columns and rows are unc We may make two deductions . |
| 3 | A pair of swallow-tailed cotingas , for example , may build two nests , laying eggs in both . |
| 4 | Larger containers may need two water bottles . |
| 5 | We may wait two hours in the cold or dark , but when the show starts , it 's a moment of magic , ’ says Gertrude Holle-Suppa , 44 , a veteran of 20 years on the circuit . |
| 6 | At the very least you should consult two historians whose views you know to be opposed or at variance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mum do you reckon I should make two paddles ? |
| 9 | John was due for leave in June and Maureen suggested that Anne and John should make two rooms in the Fitzgerald house into a flat . |
| 10 | So far as section 3 is concerned , the Committee now proposes that the maximum penalty upon conviction should remain two years . |
| 11 | If a company is to become enduringly successful , says Mr Chandler , it must make two kinds of what he calls ‘ first-mover ’ investments . |
| 12 | I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah . |
| 13 | For a pair of next year 's Centre Court tickets at Wimbledon you must buy two £500 debentures costing approximately £4,500 each . |
| 14 | On a first reading it seems puzzling that the ‘ Poorer Growth ’ camps should be those of five or six of our best camp managers whose experience of diet is exceptional , and that the ‘ Good Growth ’ camps should include two Managers whose catering has constantly to be reviewed as not up to our standard . |
| 15 | The preface should include two types if study guides . |
| 16 | Last week American/British manipulation of the UN Security Council produced yet another ‘ high noon ’ deadline by which Libya must surrender two men accused of the Lockerbie bombing , or face sanctions and worse . |
| 17 | In practice the employer must show two things : ( a ) the existence of trade connections which are to an extent " special " to him ; and ( b ) that the employee is or will be in a position to take advantage of those special trade connections . |
| 18 | We must do two things together ( Cameron found his thoughts concentrating to a point at last ) . |
| 19 | To work , any Soviet economic plan must do two things . |
| 20 | To answer a relevant costing question we must do two things : |
| 21 | What I felt was quite different from what I decided I should feel two days ago . |
| 22 | A careful scrutiny of existing policies and their implicit and explicit assumptions should do two things ; it should enable choices to be made at the level of general strategies , as to what is most conducive to equity or equality , it should also enable individual teachers in individual schools to compare their circumstances with those of others and learn which innovations seem to suit what circumstances and to take heart from the struggles and successes of their colleagues . |
| 23 | Therefore I suggest to him that he should give an undertaking to do two things er first that he should do two things . |
| 24 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 25 | The " Islay Parliament " agreed in 1755 that the local people should do two days work repairing the road from Kintra to Kenobus Mill . |
| 26 | In some cases ( for example if children may inherit ) you should choose two executors , not just one . |
| 27 | ‘ You think I should keep two establishments and sneak furtively from one to the other like some sort of guilty adulterous cad ? ’ |
| 28 | If education is to be responsive and supportive to all children 's needs then schools must provide two things : |
| 29 | Once the sale is agreed , the salesperson should follow two rules . |
| 30 | The Adjuster should provide two values : — one relating to the value of the building in an undamaged condition , the other relating to the value of the building in its present damaged condition . |