Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall also have to look at the electricity industry , where the Government produced two large generation companies solely to try to privatise nuclear power . |
| 2 | an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , having regard to all the relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it . |
| 3 | The complete statutory definition of obscenity is contained in s1 of the Obscene Publications Act : For the purposes of this Act an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , in all the circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it . |
| 4 | This recommendation was duly embodied in the 1959 statute , which provided that " an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt … |
| 5 | In Lithuania ( where the Pope appointed two new archbishops and a bishop in March ) the Constitution was amended in November 1989 to give greater religious freedom and to allow religious instruction in schools . |
| 6 | When the remainder was poured out , she noticed that the bottle contained two half-decomposed snails . |
| 7 | Or that the campaign has two objectives : an information and persuasion job , to be done in TV or press , and a reminder job which may best be done in posters . |
| 8 | Goldhawk has learned that the company had two classes of shares , with Smurfit subscribing for 10% of both ( at a total cost of £500,000 — not the £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) through his Isle of Man-based Bacchantes . |
| 9 | Ian Yarlott , business unit manager for Intuit 's UK arm , claims that the company spent two and a half years making sure it would be a genuine British product rather than a hastily localized version of the US product . |
| 10 | ‘ What appears to have happened is that the resident mixed two household substances , which should not have been mixed , ’ said the council spokesman . |
| 11 | The photographs also indicated that the original had two trains ( going and striking ) and indeed there were some interesting notes prepared by a Dr Byrom who was an enthusiastic amateur clock repairer , and who overhauled the clock in 1970 , but these were couched in very general terms . |
| 12 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
| 13 | Jane Rodin , prosecuting , told Kirkby magistrates that the trouble started two days before the incident , in which a 16year-old girl was shot . |
| 14 | Where the action of a vehicle causes two other vehicles to collide the Partial Indemnity Clause will apply as between Insurers of the colliding vehicles provided that the collision involved two vehicles only . |
| 15 | Er you say in your proof er Mrs that the site comprises two distinct parcels of land . |
| 16 | Most impressive of all to us children was the fact that the house had two staircases , the staircase we could see from the front door , and the back stairs , used by the servants . |
| 17 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 18 | At first , it is internal , just checking to see that the code to make two and two add up to four gets the right answer , but as more flesh gets put on the bones of the program , and it begins to look more like a real product , the first of the heavy testing stages starts . |
| 19 | This is probably the reason that the molecule forms two new bonds when it reacts with a hydrocarbon , one with carbon and one with hydrogen . |
| 20 | No statistically significant time structure is seen within the envelope of the pulse , although the shape suggests two wide pulses separated by 0.2 in phase . |
| 21 | However , if the clause contains two or more restrictions , the court may hold one unreasonable but still allow reliance on the other , provided that the two are severable . |
| 22 | They were rated as positive if the subject had two or more of : examination success ; a positive assessment of school work or relationships with peers ; or a clearly positive recall of at least three aspects of school life . |
| 23 | First overflow records do not add any additional time if the index has two entries per track , and if the index items point to the first record in the overflow chain . |
| 24 | 3.23 Exemplary damages will now only be awarded if the claim passes two tests : ( 1 ) It has to be in respect of a cause of action for which prior to 1964 such an award had been made ; and ( 2 ) It has to fall within one of the two categories identified by Lord Devlin in Rookes v Barnard [ 1964 ] AC 1129 namely , |
| 25 | It is as if the body had two hearts — one providing power to the lung circuit , and the other for the body circuit . |
| 26 | He married Sarah Lomax in 1983 and the couple had two sons , Tom and Freddie , seven and five . |
| 27 | He is married to Wendy and the couple have two young children , Peter and Timothy . |
| 28 | The Museum is on the eastern spit of one of the hundred islands that make up the city of Leningrad , and the spit links two of its six hundred and twenty bridges . |
| 29 | It is built of large blocks of travertine stone and the arch has two concentric rings of radiating voussoirs . |
| 30 | From the old team , David Mellor and Gillian Shephard have been wafted away on promotion , and the election left two more empty saddles in the Treasury corral . |