Example sentences of "[verb] on two [noun] " 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 | All located on two lane roads when no bike has . |
| 5 | The Faculty is located on two campuses — at Belfast , where most of the staff , students and facilities are based , and at Magee College . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | But instead of scooting , the rider stands on two side plates , while a small petrol engine drives the rear wheel . |
| 8 | This led the team to concentrate on two aspects . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The drop in production was blamed on two cyclones early in the year and on unfavourable climatic conditions later . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A J Trevett and colleagues reported on two patients who developed acute respiratory obstruction from swallowing live fish . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Bingo is still enjoyed on two Mondays per month with members of the Village Association committee acting as callers . |
| 18 | Bingo is still enjoyed on two Mondays per month with members of the Village Association committee acting as callers . |
| 19 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This meant it could concentrate on two core businesses — security printing and heating and bathroom products . |
| 22 | The work will focus on two curriculum areas within the new reforms : mathematics ( which has national testing ) and environmental studies ( which does not ) . |
| 23 | Fade on two heads , shaking . |
| 24 | In 1990 the European parliament voted on two reports calling for action on age discrimination . |
| 25 | We continue to differ on two aspects . |
| 26 | Afterwards he wrote a book about his experiences , World Understanding on Two Wheels . |
| 27 | In the previous section we concentrated on two axes of the search space : time and level of abstraction . |
| 28 | It 's a traditional vintage type , with individually adjustable saddles mounted on a plate which pivots on two height adjustable posts . |
| 29 | They were scaly creatures , walking on two feet and they were out to conquer the Earth and every living creature on it . |
| 30 | Killjoy explains bipedalism — that is , walking on two legs — as a way of life that left the hands free for other things . |