Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RIO DE JANEIRO ( AP ) — Luis Sales , head of a Brazilian advertising agency , was freed unharmed after being held by kidnappers for two months . |
| 2 | Open daily C6 S5 V6 £58 for three courses ( lunch £13.50 for two courses , £14.90 for three ; set dinner £22.50 ) |
| 3 | The tent can be put up in as little as five seconds and has enough room to provide shade and wind protection for two adults . |
| 4 | Literary fiction may not be big in numbers but it will be big in promotions in preparation for two birthdays — 10 years for Black Swan in September , 12 for Picador in October . |
| 5 | Capital instruments may take the form of contracts between two parties ( for example a borrower and his bank ) as well as an issue of transferable securities . |
| 6 | Expert determination is found in contracts between two parties ; the only occasions when more than two parties are involved are found in the valuation of shares in companies , but there again the parties are bound together by arrangements analogous to contracts . |
| 7 | Discussions between two people provide good materials , but will be useless if words are mouthed , since , as ever , you need whole sentences at normal speed with normal rhythm . |
| 8 | It is not just a romantic attachment between two individuals to the exclusion of the world at large . |
| 9 | No other country in Europe possesses this sharp division between two sides of the same industry . |
| 10 | The division between two schools of thought is nowhere more apparent than in the field of Zambian foreign policy . |
| 11 | Prevailing Aristotelian philosophy also affirmed a fundamental division between two regions in the cosmos . |
| 12 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 13 | FIRE closed the main A19 Tees viaduct for two hours at Middlesbrough last night . |
| 14 | Her sister Harriet has had the cottage for two years . |
| 15 | Such a view tends to place less emphasis on the war between two countries and more on the internal conflict between the king of France and the duke of Aquitaine , a struggle between two blocks of territory and two rather different legal traditions : the ‘ Angevin empire ’ , once ruled by the English , representing the area of customary law and local independence , the other part of France the more centralising tradition based on Roman law . |
| 16 | struggle between two conceptions of the press : the one of a Fourth Estate , with proprietorship a form of public service and journalists a species of public philosophers ; the other of the press as an industry , with proprietors as businessmen and journalism a trade or craft . |
| 17 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 18 | Not until the battle of The Saints in 1782 ( see p. 345 ) did a struggle between two fleets of approximately equal size produce a clear-cut victory for one of them . |
| 19 | For the bigger part of the century , the world had witnessed a titanic struggle between two visions of the future … |
| 20 | I tell this story for two reasons . |
| 21 | Having councilled with the Nez Perce for two years , in July 1818 , he re-established a fort in their name in the region of the Cayuse and Walla Walla Indians . |
| 22 | The owners of 8 and 10 Millbank are seeking planning permission for two ground floor bedroom extensions and dorma bedrooms and bathrooms at the rear of their homes . |
| 23 | ‘ Glimmers of hope ’ after lowest jobless rise for two years |
| 24 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 25 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 26 | And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract . |
| 27 | For hanging clothes there was a slot behind the bedheads of about eight inches wide , enough in Filmer 's case for two suits . |
| 28 | I suspect the latter in your case for two reasons : |
| 29 | This is the case for two reasons : many signers report another sign for AMERICA which is disappearing ; the sign itself is not ‘ transparent ‘ , and there is no known link between the sign and any visual image . |
| 30 | A man on a donkey directed us to where the world began , pointing up a lane between two walls of durra . |