Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NUS paper presented to Whitley led to the Group 's decision to allocate two re-assigned Model 30s for student computing use , as per item ( 2 ) above . |
| 2 | ( Chlorine , though , already one of the main commodity businesses when ICI began in the 1920s , still accounts for a remarkable 12% of total sales ; the proportion will be reduced by last month 's decision to shut two chlorine plants at Hillhouse , Lancashire . ) |
| 3 | mum Pauline 's mum had two in less |
| 4 | The reason for this curious approach is the author 's intention to fuse two books into one . |
| 5 | Nerina 's card showed two years of B pluses and A minuses in communication studies and sociology , and then a term of Cs and Ds , and then back up to straight As . |
| 6 | The tenant 's adviser has two approaches . |
| 7 | Souness 's side missed two great chances at the start of each half , when Don Hutchison and Michael Thomas failed to convert chances . |
| 8 | So CND 's future has two stages . |
| 9 | This is a useful starting point in that Bell 's work highlights two important themes necessary to understand economic support in families : gender and class ( in particular , the distribution of income and wealth ) . |
| 10 | DSM 's work has two purposes : to attempt to solve some of the practical difficulties associated with successful restoration , such as dampness and the type of pigments used in the paintings ; and to judge some the hypotheses put forward by art historians on their scientific merit ( this is being done with the plasterwork from St Servatius ) . |
| 11 | Doyle 's team won two out of the four Championship matches in ‘ 87 ( in hindsight , a herculean achievement ) but the team lost its way at the World Cup . |
| 12 | Curators feel that much harm has been done by the museum 's failure to articulate two indisputable facts . |
| 13 | [ That this House condemns British Coal for its closure of the Coventry Colliery at Keresely with the loss of 1,300 jobs , completed in a mere 13 days from the announcement of the decision to the working of the last shift ; believes that the pit is not abandoned but mothballed with 40 million tonnes of good quality reserves of medium sulphur content which will be kept on a care and maintenance basis until a link-up is organised by a privatised Daw Mill Colliery should the Government be re-elected ; condemns British Coal 's refusal to attend two meetings of local authority and parish councillors , local honourable Members of this House and church representatives and notes the absence at the meetings of 24th October and 11th November of the local Tory honourable Members ; and calls for a public inquiry into the methods of the closure and the false economics which talk of losses ' yet fail to take into account the future cost to public funds of lost production and taxes paid , and of dole and unemployment payments to be made . ] |
| 14 | Finally , suppose that the upstream firm 's product has two uses with very different elasticities of demand . |
| 15 | ‘ Fedorov 's wife died two years ago . |
| 16 | This date may be changed as Marion 's father died two days before Christmas and Chris 's father has recently been admitted to hospital in Greenwich . |
| 17 | Ceauşescu 's policy killed two birds with one stone : on the one hand , he began the process of ridding Romania of what he considered troublesome alien minorities and earned hard currency from their new countries for the privilege ; and at the same time , he gained a reputation in the West as a ‘ good ’ communist , a man to do business with — in this case , by bartering for human beings . |
| 18 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 19 | The best and worst day of Jenny 's life arrived two months later . |
| 20 | However , it does not take somebody with a great imagination to think of using someone 's invention to base two of the hatter 's obsessions upon . |
| 21 | Mr Alton 's call follows two petitions signed by more than 700 parents demanding a security guard for the school and the renovation of a derelict bungalow on the site for use by a caretaker . |
| 22 | Mr Fitzwilliam 's acquittal came two weeks after Mr John Briggs , deputy chairman of engineering group Wheway , was cleared of allegations of illegal share trading . |
| 23 | Wolfgang Iser points out that Ingarden 's analysis implies two types of indeterminacy : that which is eventually eliminated in the process of ‘ realization ’ and that which is integral to the world of the text and a constitutive aspect of its status as fiction ( Iser 1978:173 ) . |
| 24 | Soon after the publication of Barro 's studies it was pointed out by Leiderman ( 1980 ) that Barro 's model embodied two important but separate hypotheses — rational expectations and what is called structural neutrality — and that it was possible to test for rational expectations separately , and then , given rational expectations , test for structural neutrality . |
| 25 | David Stirk 's effort stopped two rolls short of forcing a third extra hole . |
| 26 | The traits which make up the individual 's personality have two main sources . |
| 27 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 28 | Newton 's letter contained two urgent messages : |
| 29 | The formal presentation of the reshuffled Cabinet was cancelled , however , after a boycott by members of the CSR protesting at curtailed discussion of a parliamentary commission 's report implicating two Cabinet ministers in a previous failed coup attempt . |
| 30 | Apart from the issue of reductionism , Comte 's scheme raises two other major problems . |