Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A consequence of this technique of representing negative values is that some bit patterns have two interpretations ; thus " 100011 " represents the character " L " as well as 3 and a " minus " sign .
2 Any standard form of building contract incorporates two elements : the basic agreement between the parties that the contractor will carry out and complete the work and that the employer will pay the contractor for doing so ; and detailed conditions which define how this will happen and procedures which are to be followed .
3 THE FRENCH defence ministry spent two days last week trying to patch up poor relations with scientists .
4 Remarkably , the five-month build programme finished two weeks ahead of schedule , despite being dogged by bad weather .
5 The research programme has two aspects .
6 Manchester died a little and Morrissey retreated to the bedroom typewriter to produce two books .
7 Alton Cycling Club fielded two members : Jeff McGill recorded 25–33 and Stuart Willis 25–50 .
8 Ian Williams ( Australia ) and David Kirk ( New Zealand ) have gone , but the freshmen who face University College Cork include two US internationals , Gary Hein and Don James , Toshiyoki Hayashi of Japan , and two South Africans , David Curtis and Willem de Klerk .
9 Darlington Borough Council employs two wardens to deal with strays .
10 The expert intuition is not found in manuals so skilled maintenance engineers use two types of knowledge :
11 If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) .
12 In recovery the grief reaction takes two years to work through and the various components of grief have to be addressed and processed .
13 Maple is again the main wood used , the five-piece neck laminate utilising figured rock maple to sandwich two sections of Goncalo Alvez .
14 The scanner looks at different kinds of injury than the equipment which Darlington and North Tees health authority expect to receive from a national health department package announced two weeks ago .
15 Buchanan 's study group recommended two kinds of roads : distributors designed tor movement and access roads to serve buildings .
16 One maintenance organisation encountered two aircraft with cracked panels within a six-week period .
17 Why do the USR undergraduate statistics have two headings each for psychology and geography , one in the natural sciences and one in the social sciences ?
18 In the New Testament Jesus uses two images to convey God 's extravagant concern for the world : one is the shepherd who risks the rest of the flock in order to go searching for the lost sheep ; the other is the woman who turns a house upside down looking for lost coins .
19 This modified version of the IPR definition adds two dimensions :
20 Frank Rogers ' new girlfriend Lyn has two children .
21 Industry leaders say two salmon farms had to call in the receivers last week and others will have to follow suit unless the European Union takes action .
22 Industry leaders say two salmon farms had to call in the receivers last week and others will have to follow suit unless the European Union takes action .
23 A new purpose-built Pest Control and commercial Healthcare centre to accommodate two Rentokil branches in these specialist areas , was opened at Howletts Way on the Fisons Industrial Estate , Thetford in November by the Mayor and Mayoress of Thetford .
24 The observational data show that Easton 's neighbourhood police have two recipes for resolving this dilemma and its associated conundrum .
25 The Setting Studio delivered two copies of the typesetting — no apparent difference between them — and returned the disk .
26 At 12.30 a.m. the bite alarm on the worm rod emits its warble and the silver foil jumps two inches toward the rod and then stops .
27 The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month .
28 Each term students take two courses , each course being taught in a weekly two-and-a-half-hour session .
29 In a review essay written two years before ‘ Pornography and Obscenity ’ , Lawrence attacks the way we have ( allegedly ) come to think of ourselves in modern civilization .
30 CAR thieves wrecked two fences and ripped up lawns when they sped through a quiet residential estate yesterday .
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