Example sentences of "[verb] on two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 2 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 3 | But the arrangements are becoming a little more fulsome , drum machines ( the innovation of bass players Family Man Barrett ) appear on two tracks , and the band are getting more writing credits . |
| 4 | The Faculty is located on two campuses — at Belfast , where most of the staff , students and facilities are based , and at Magee College . |
| 5 | In this week 's journal Stern and colleagues report on two censuses carried out in 1979 and 1990 of elderly people in residential care in Leicestershire ( p 827 ) . |
| 6 | This led the team to concentrate on two aspects . |
| 7 | I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England . |
| 8 | From the start , the opposition negotiators decided to concentrate on two demands : that wages be indexed to the rise in prices and that increases in food prices be gradual . |
| 9 | He was , he says , approached on two occasions by search consultants about public sector work before he entered into discussions with the Prudential in 1987 . |
| 10 | Coalition-building was to be approached on two fronts ; the first involved horse-trading , the striking of deals or bargains in order to win support . |
| 11 | The drop in production was blamed on two cyclones early in the year and on unfavourable climatic conditions later . |
| 12 | The principal carers were to be interviewed on two occasions , firstly at or around the time of the sufferer 's first interview and secondly a year later . |
| 13 | A J Trevett and colleagues reported on two patients who developed acute respiratory obstruction from swallowing live fish . |
| 14 | No breaks in the cold chain were documented at the central storage facility , although vaccines kept at the study site were discarded on two occasions after power failures that lasted several hours . |
| 15 | Bingo is still enjoyed on two Mondays per month with members of the Village Association committee acting as callers . |
| 16 | Bingo is still enjoyed on two Mondays per month with members of the Village Association committee acting as callers . |
| 17 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 18 | Space limitations mean one can only select a little from what was a varied and highly successful programme , so I will concentrate on two areas . |
| 19 | Fade on two heads , shaking . |
| 20 | In 1990 the European parliament voted on two reports calling for action on age discrimination . |
| 21 | We continue to differ on two aspects . |
| 22 | Afterwards he wrote a book about his experiences , World Understanding on Two Wheels . |
| 23 | In the previous section we concentrated on two axes of the search space : time and level of abstraction . |
| 24 | They were scaly creatures , walking on two feet and they were out to conquer the Earth and every living creature on it . |
| 25 | Killjoy explains bipedalism — that is , walking on two legs — as a way of life that left the hands free for other things . |
| 26 | But later , from the end of the Triassic onwards , certain species within the genus began to drop down on all fours , although this does not mean that the quadrupedal forms descended from bipedal forms — or merely got tired of walking on two legs . |
| 27 | He was fined on two occasions for making abusive comments to referees , he caused a storm by branding his players as ‘ boozers ’ , and his name was mysteriously connected with a local Swindon bookie . |
| 28 | Although Walton J. referred on two occasions to the plaintiff being under a mistaken belief that they were bound to pay the duties it is clear from his findings that in relation to at least the last three payments they were in considerable doubt as to their liability and he said , at p. 745 : |
| 29 | The reserves remaining net to LASMO have been presented on two bases , on the relevant working interest and also on a net entitlement basis which takes into account projections of government share of production calculated in accordance with certain price and expenditure assumptions . |
| 30 | There was no yardage chart in those days , but I worked out very quickly that Arnold was two clubs stronger than me , so I just put myself in the same situation and added on two clubs . |