Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range has eight firing points on two levels . |
| 2 | We let the Pacer loose on two testers — one fast , one slow . |
| 3 | In 1990 the European parliament voted on two reports calling for action on age discrimination . |
| 4 | For a 3 month trial period Harlow Council have introduced Leisurebus running on two routes around the town . |
| 5 | Correlation between bidirectional reflectance and biomass depends on two relationships , the one between bidirectional reflectance and LAI and the one between LAI and biomass . |
| 6 | One July morning the sun shone on two figures climbing the hill leading out of the fine city of Wintoncester . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This plan failed on two counts . |
| 9 | As this process goes on two consequences will follow . |
| 10 | This led the team to concentrate on two aspects . |
| 11 | The year-to-year change in total number in a population depends on two pairs of components : |
| 12 | In a nearby room , there is yet another swastika meander arrangement , which encloses a small , radial " , geometric device bordered on two sides by chequers ( on view in situ ) . |
| 13 | Outside Parliament attention focused on two by-elections . |
| 14 | When Tate took his leave , Eliot stood at the door of the drawingroom leaning on two canes ; Tate waved goodbye , and although he was not able to raise himself from the canes he smiled and made a movement with one hand . |
| 15 | It calls instead for a negotiated settlement based on two principles . |
| 16 | The prices shown are per person based on two people sharing a twin/double room . |
| 17 | Price is per person based on two people sharing a room on the December 7 1991 departure and does n't include meals other than breakfast , holiday insurance , passport costs , optional excursions and any personal expenditure . |
| 18 | The essence of this programme was constitutional reform , but , in addition , de Gaulle committed the Rassemblement to a theoretically radical scheme of profit-sharing and worker participation in management ( which he termed " association capital-travail " ) and to a vaguely-worded economic liberalism , whose aim was clearly to capitalize on popular frustration with the continuing economic hardships ( 1947 saw the bread ration reduced on two occasions ) . |
| 19 | Judge Hand 's refusal to comply with the request addressed to him in the Mexico City case rested on two grounds . |
| 20 | They returned to Joan 's parents ' house and about four o'clock in the morning decided on two steps . |
| 21 | The unfairness argument operates on two levels . |
| 22 | More exactly , since these five writers differ not only from other New Critics but also among themselves , I shall for the sake of clarity and simplicity concentrate on two texts , Wimsatt 's The Verbal Icon and Brooks 's The Well-Wrought Urn , referring to the work of the others only insofar as it corroborates or develops what is said there . |
| 23 | He knew that his life depended on two letters , one to Lanyon and one to Poole . |
| 24 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 25 | Survival of the host mistletoe depends on two factors : its age and the severity of hyperparasite attack . |
| 26 | The advocate general found the British government lacking on two counts : failure adequately to enshrine in UK law the 1980 EC directive on drinking water , and the presence of excessive levels of nitrates in drinking water in 21 supply zones in East Anglia , and seven zones in the Severn Trent region . |
| 27 | The notion that arts education should become more ‘ gender aware ’ in a general sense rests on two assumptions : |
| 28 | In the second half of the month Turkish troops entered Iraq in a large-scale air and ground operation concentrated on two fronts , with the objective of trapping the PKK in a pincer between hostile Iraqi and Turkish forces . |
| 29 | This versatility rested on two bases : first , the structure of the rights set up by trusts ; second , the procedural system by which they could be enforced . |
| 30 | DOSFax Lite relies on two TSRs to give you the fax functions , but these consume a huge 63Kb and 10Kb of RAM each . |