Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially pupils often find it far easier to compare a past picture and a present picture than to compare two pictures from different periods of the past . |
| 2 | Of course , this does n't stop a Mob squabbling amongst itself , but at least this only halts one unit for a turn rather than bringing two units to a standstill and inflicting casualties . |
| 3 | Dot wondered why it was braver to jump out of a plane than to lose two fingers in a factory . |
| 4 | Now , if you had an opportunity of glancing at the leaflet already you will have seen that the leader for this July 's er , weekend is is Mr Henry and , I do n't think I can do any better than to spend two minutes of the time that we 've got in asking Henry if he would say a word or two of introduction to the theme for this year . |
| 5 | McIntosh is too much the diplomat to say what he really thinks about the firm 's three year spell inside the TSB empire , except to say two things — firstly that he doubts whether it either made or lost much money on its investment , and secondly that Hill Samuel was very supportive once the decision to sell had been taken in principle . |
| 6 | The abolition of the Wages Councils will not nothing less than rob two point seven million workers , mainly women workers , on minimum wage protection . |
| 7 | We would register our management system in its entirety rather than have two systems running parallel — QA on the one hand and Standard Management on the other . |
| 8 | If applying two coats , lightly rub down the first coat when it is dry to form a good key for the second coat . |
| 9 | I almost got away with it until saw two letters |
| 10 | They are likely to snap it up — unless wearing two watches becomes fashionable , the market for digital timepieces is pretty well saturated . |
| 11 | Mr Milburn said he had spoken to an 81-year-old lady from Harrowgate Hill who has got steadily more blind while waiting two years for treatment for cataracts . |
| 12 | Since the thrice-weekly visit of the ferry brought all the island 's mail and supplies , and the post office was very small , the place was crowded , and the postmistress , busily sorting through a pile of mail and newspapers , while exchanging two days ' news in Gaelic with the ferry 's master , had no glance to spare for me . |
| 13 | Such men would recognize the traditional ability of the agricultural labourer to tip his cap to the employer while raising two fingers behind his back . |
| 14 | Whilst dredging two steam winches on the deck are used to move her along on wire ropes the ends of which are attached to the canal banks . |
| 15 | Then comes the second part of the double whammy — after say two years BA would announce that it was withdrawing from Belfast City Airport in order to consolidate their operations at Belfast International whose superior facilities interface more readily with their corporate image ( or similar doublespeak ) . |
| 16 | Whether to study two half-syllabuses in place of one whole one is a rational procedure is extremely dubious . |
| 17 | Tait , with William Thomson , had published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867 which became a standard advanced textbook because it treated physics from the point of view of conservation of energy — fathering the doctrine , as became two Cambridge men , upon Newton : the ‘ return to Newton ’ was for them the key to modernity . |
| 18 | This is especially noticeable ( now you know to look for it ! ) when multiplying two polynomials in the usual manner . |
| 19 | As well as writing two novels , he wrote several books about church architecture and liturgy , the best known being The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century , and numerous pamphlets , essays and letters to the press . |
| 20 | Though having to go via Le Touquet , Biarritz and the French Congo when hampered two furlongs out , Elizabeth Bay finished so strongly that she was beaten only a couple of lengths by Wixon . |
| 21 | Though having to go via Le Touquet , Biarritz and the French Congo when hampered two furlongs out , Elizabeth Bay finished so strongly that she was beaten only a couple of lengths by Wixon . |
| 22 | Never mind the fact they were as comfortable as wearing two fibre-glass tubes filled with iron filings , and stank like an incontinent old sheep dog when wet , they were natural wool and so considered correct . |
| 23 | A family of four can travel for £234 return , when buying two Superpex returns . |
| 24 | Just as regards two children , that was all agreed by the parties . |
| 25 | Unbeaten last term , he has run well in good races this term , notably when finishing two lengths second to the ill-fated Mr Brooks in the Group One Prix de L'Abbaye at Longchamp last month . |
| 26 | Changes designed to improve education can therefore be regarded as having two sources : those initiated by decision makers at local or national level ; those initiated by teachers . |
| 27 | A map is most easily conceived as having two co-ordinates , like longitude and latitude on customary human maps . |
| 28 | In 1892 it was offered for sale , as having two water wheels and two steam engines , driving eight pairs of stones . |
| 29 | We may think of consciousness as having two components : sensation and perception on the one hand and willing or agency on the other ; or input and output . |
| 30 | This maintenance of a working class Tory vote sufficient to return the party to office can be thought of as having two components : first the reproduction of relatively stable social collectivities having a principle of identification outside the conception of ‘ class ’ which prompted most ‘ working class ’ people to vote Labour , and second a more conjunctural conversion of voters . |