Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in the need for institutional change study it was clear that need for change has two distinct components : the deficiency level of some institutional subsystem , and its importance to the system as a whole . |
| 2 | The debates that accompanied the passage of this Bill through Parliament reflected two themes which constantly recur in discussions about local government reorganisation . |
| 3 | The company has applied for permission to drill two more holes in the nearby Lake District National Park , but this drilling permission has thus far not been granted . |
| 4 | A THEATRE group putting together props for its main summertime show is appealing for help to find two vital items . |
| 5 | POLICE last night issued an appeal for help to find two schoolgirls missing from their homes since Sunday . |
| 6 | The gong for lunch sounded two floors down . |
| 7 | This method of assessment matches two key aims in our new curriculum . |
| 8 | I have tried a similar method with my Hague Linker by using a small piece of thread to join two pieces of yarn but , unfortunately , the knots were still too big to go through the eye of the needle . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Defence says two Hercules planes are now waiting for orders at Zagreb and they may be recalled back to Lyneham , if flights into Sarajevo prove to dangerous to risk . |
| 10 | As early as 1968 steps were being taken by the Ministry of Agriculture to conserve two of them ( the Bazadais and the Aubrac ) , while a national commission was set up in 1976 to consider the need for wider conservation measures . |
| 11 | It is , even , a bit of an act of faith comparing two concurrent campaigns ' performance . |
| 12 | To do a complete job would of course require two rings and three pickup coils . |
| 13 | In order for Split-type working , you must of course have two different types of media available . |
| 14 | D/BOs find many advantages in ‘ dealing with one man ’ , especially when they find this type of contract eliminates two of the most ‘ controversial ’ areas of construction dispute . |
| 15 | It was read out in parliament to persuade the commons in the euphoric aftermath of Crécy to grant two subsidies and publicly proclaimed at St Paul 's to arouse popular enthusiasm for the war . |
| 16 | Can this be the Arthur Wellesley who set aside a sum of money to educate two of the slain Tipu Sahib 's sons , whose letters of gratitude I still have ? |
| 17 | These two types of action reflect two different styles of playing the piano . |
| 18 | This measure of effect has two virtues : it is simple and intuitively appealing . |
| 19 | Those majoring in English take three core units , and those taking English in a joint programme of study take two . |
| 20 | These principles of correspondence articulate two fundamentally different ways of conceptualizing racism . |
| 21 | You feel like er , that 's whose , like ex soldiers throughout the company , and he said to Colin er , he said , how many people are you thinking about employ , our Colin seems to think there 'd be enough work to keep 'im going , like , he says , he says , well how many people are you thinking about employing , he says , only only me and me like , it 's oh , oh , he says , there 's plenty of work to keep two of going , he said , I thought you employed about six . |
| 22 | In the version with dependent parameters , once Bacon has found a form of law relating two inputs while others have particular settings , it will expect that these two are always related by a law of the same form in which only the values of c and k vary . |
| 23 | For example , one molecule of oxygen contains two atoms of oxygen . |
| 24 | The neck itself is a sturdy five-piece laminate , three pieces of maple sandwiching two of walnut , finished off with a plain ebony fretboard containing wide oval nickel-silver frets . |
| 25 | SCOTTISH international Joss Kirby , who hung up her racing spikes two years ago , came out of retirement to win two gold medals at the Championships . |
| 26 | More recently , Atkinson ( 1989 ) has calculated the rate of tax to finance two proposed social dividend/tax credit schemes , and he suggests a range of 47.5–51.3 per cent but warns that it is a difficult figure to calculate . |
| 27 | A treaty of guarantee incorporates two distinct and separate obligations for the parties : the obligation to respect the terms of the treaty themselves and the undertaking to compel third parties to do likewise . |
| 28 | The use of procedure involves two groups of time-consuming operations : saving or restoring registers on each call or return and passing parameters and results to and from the procedure . |
| 29 | The first count of the declaration stated that the plaintiff had commenced action against the defendant in the Court of Exchequer to recover two sums of £700 and £1,300 , respectively , issue had been joined and the hearing was to take place on December 7 , 1844 ; that the defendant , on December 6 , 1844 , promised the plaintiff that , if he ( plaintiff ) would forbear prosecuting the proceedings until December 14 , the defendant would on that day pay the money with interest and costs ; that the plaintiff , relying on this promise , forbore prosecuting the action until the day named but that the defendant did not pay the money or costs . |
| 30 | I also gave one feed of brineshrimp nauplii ( 0.5 ml of brineshrimp eggs hatched in 0.5 litres of water containing two 5 ml spoons of salt . |