Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
| 2 | So brief is the note , and couched in such general terms , that it is difficult to base much upon it , but worth noting are the facts that he clearly saw his choice as lying in the normal way between tedris and kaza , which he calls two paths or careers ; that a signal disadvantage of teaching was that it was unremunerative ; and , not least , that , unable to contemplate either alternative , he was able to find a home for his talents and interests in the bureaucracy . |
| 3 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 4 | In the same way , when Conrad Aiken sent him a copy of Ushant in which he described two incidents which displayed a streak of sadism " in Eliot 's nature , Eliot denied any recollection of such events . |
| 5 | Frank Malton , 77 , of Acacia Street , Darlington , has called for action on a dangerous broken grating on Brinkburn Road which he reported two months ago but found yesterday that nothing has been done . |
| 6 | His last literary project was a verse translation of Oppian 's Halieuticks , of which he completed two books , published posthumously ( 1722 ) . |
| 7 | On which he makes two statements : first , that we are unmoved by it ; second , that it is a tragedy , especially to the eight-year-old son . |