Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do think that you 're , when you 're doing it , thinking of doing two bits , |
| 2 | In order to fit the result of selecting two decimal digits ( a maximum value of 99 ) into a range of twenty storage positions , 20 is subtracted repetitively from the two digits until the result is less than 20 . |
| 3 | She had also decided to invite Louise and Miriam , whom she wanted to impress with her domestic abilities , but only after a struggle in which she was torn between the pleasure of impressing them and the displeasure of having two more women and thereby disturbing what she considered to be a favourable balance of the sexes . |
| 4 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 5 | Other transformational rules have the effect of combining two or more simple sentence structures into a single more complex unit : [ 5 ] Night fell The wind freshened ) Night fell and the wind freshened . |
| 6 | In Riga they paid Hughes the compliment of putting two defenders on him but that merely created space for the other Northern Ireland players . |
| 7 | In this way , the trick of using two cores has performed the seemingly impossible task of isolating the tiny wanted signal from the comparatively huge unwanted one . |
| 8 | His unsuccessful serious plays had drawn on the Harold Pinter trick of having two different conversations continuing at the same time , and they were often returned with the comment that he had copied the playwright . |
| 9 | First , the fairly simple trick of separating two component parts of a clue by a number of pages . |
| 10 | We discovered the trick of working two watches together — 4 p.m. till midnight and midnight till 9 a.m. , and then taking the morning train to Scotland . |
| 11 | Children who have , for example , a Jewish , Hindu , Welsh , or Irish home in an English town or city often have the advantage of sharing two or more cultures that can enrich each other and that can help to spread understanding in the community . |
| 12 | Mochlos had the advantage of possessing two harbours , one facing east , one west : if strong winds put one harbour out of commission , the other could be used instead . |
| 13 | IRISH international Noel Graham , who came to Dublin yesterday in the hope of winning two Irish National championships , goes home today empty-handed . |
| 14 | I had the privilege of leading two teams of Council of Europe observers to elections in east Germany and , recently , Poland , and I have spoken to Bulgarians , Hungarians , and Czechs — the last two are now full members of the Council of Europe . |
| 15 | The debate arises from the obvious difficulty of avoiding two types of police relationships in the community , each of which is undesirable for different reasons . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a case of killing two birds with one stone , with the added advantage of the contractor providing unified management for the entire chain of planning , acquisition and processing , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It is notable that even when the young Rogers was inspired by the direct experience of discovering two moths in nearby woods , he turned immediately to books to find out about the life-cycle , and learn the lepidopterists ' terminology . |
| 18 | The common clinical experience of diagnosing two ( or occasionally more ) affected boys simultaneously in a single family has to be weighed against the availability of prenatal diagnosis in future pregnancies once the first case has been identified . |
| 19 | In fact , his chances will not alter at all because he has had the valuable opportunity of leading two A tours and the grey matter of his leadership on the field is well known . ’ |
| 20 | A politician with sufficient interest , moreover , was not above contemplating forcing out of their posts political enemies holding university appointments , as the Duke of Montrose clearly intended when expressing the hope that ‘ wee might have ane opportunity of makeing two empty sadles ’ in the university of Glasgow , namely the professors of law and medicine . |
| 21 | A lot of Mr Wilson senior 's liberal attitudes had not stood the test of having two converted Muslims living in the house . |
| 22 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 23 | But North Road station in Darlington has the honour of having two . |
| 24 | There were not many of us in the group to begin with , and so the issue of having two separate groups for lesbians and gay men was n't considered to be organizationally viable . |
| 25 | sort of try two or three styles then sort of how well you got ta think about your headdress and that first , have n't you ? |
| 26 | So indirect pressure , that one then is the feneral and that 's the breaking , they 're the only two we worry about , okay , the feneral and if they ask where it is do n't sort of put two hands over and hang on to your crutch like mad because that is n't really where the feneral artery is |
| 27 | Produced for 20th Century Fox by Elmo Williams , the film crews had the daunting job of recreating two air forces and two navies in numbers sufficient to depict the massed Japanese attackers and , for lack of a better phrase , the massed American targets . |
| 28 | He had hit on the ‘ aim of combining two different modes of enquiry — oral history and psychoanalysis — to uncover the past in as many of its layers as possible ’ . |
| 29 | Marx is concerned here with the dynamic implication of the contradiction of combining two systems . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman has said that it is in the process of acquiring two incredibly beautiful works and the point is that it is acquiring them even though they cost much more than the nominal amount of Government grant available . |