Example sentences of "[to-vb] on two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This led the team to concentrate on two aspects . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We continue to differ on two aspects . |
| 6 | Any test of the implementation of policy of more delegation , therefore , needs to focus on two factors in the standing of DHAs . |
| 7 | We could dwell at length on problems of access , ignorance and prejudice and the inequities of the benefit system , but I wold like to focus on two areas — legislation and provision . |
| 8 | Editor , — We wish to focus on two issues raised by the editorial on screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy . |
| 9 | As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts . |
| 10 | Germany 's principal problem at the outbreak of the war was to avoid having to fight on two fronts , east and west , at the same time . |
| 11 | Also , the more likely Austria would be to avoid Germany 's fate of having to fight on two fronts if neutral Italy entered the war on the Allied side . |
| 12 | If France remained without an ally who could force Germany to fight on two fronts she would find it impossible to match German numbers because of the difference in the birthrate of the two nations . |
| 13 | As in 1923 , Labour had to fight on two fronts ; as in 1923 , the Liberals were , in many ways , a more dangerous enemy than the Conservatives . |
| 14 | Jet pump trials are to start on two wells early next year . |
| 15 | Adorno 's mistake here seems to rest on two aspects of his position , which in fact turn out to provide the two central explanations for the flaws in his argument . |
| 16 | However , the justification for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts would appear to rest on two grounds , both of which may be open to question in the light of the foregoing analysis . |
| 17 | Afshar suggested , " Your Majesty , time will tell , but you could say to him " If you try to sit on two stills , you will fall between . " " |
| 18 | It seems hardly realistic for Palestine to exist on two sides of Israel . |
| 19 | Marx argued that capital owners left the nobility in control of government in order to force the proletariat to battle on two fronts , against capital directly in every factory and against an apparently separate state in the political sphere . |
| 20 | These authorities , be they judges , constitutional lawyers or senior political scientists , have come to this view as they have been forced to ponder on two things . |
| 21 | Now if like me , if somebody asked you how much it costs , you 're going to give them an approximation , it 's quite adequate to add on two pounds . |
| 22 | ‘ I like the idea of a child being able to take on two adults and win . ’ |
| 23 | In the old days the boys learned to step on two bricks . |