Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another of my theories was strengthened there too for on the bottom of the swim lay two large pieces of rotting heavy timber . |
| 2 | The main house of the villa had two heated rooms with a tessellated pavement , part of which survived . |
| 3 | Asking questions as part of the presentation serves two functions . |
| 4 | The policy adopted for the conversion involved exploiting to the full the high , undivided volume of the interior to create two storeys of living accommodation . |
| 5 | The scene on the other side of the beaker includes two armoured men facing each other , only one is complete , wearing a helmet and sleeve-buckler , but appearing to have only a whip , while his opponent seems to be wielding a short spear ( fig. 14.15 ) . |
| 6 | The left wing of the symbol contains two figures , the early start time on the left and the late start time on the right . |
| 7 | The left wing of the symbol contains two figures , the early start time on the left and the late start time on the right . |
| 8 | Earlier releases of the software used two relatively simple ways to provide fault tolerance . |
| 9 | The investment management division of the firm took two out of the five distinctions among 618 candidates in the UK . |
| 10 | The full results of the attack included two Hurricanes burnt out and three damaged , plus three groundcrew wounded . |
| 11 | The reasonableness of the guarantee has two aspects . |
| 12 | Erm you already had , er , the opportunity to read my letter of the eighteenth of April er , circulated with the report and accounts , which fully explains the proposals being put forward and which are for firstly increasing the authorized share capital of the company creating two new classes of preference share er , renewing the board 's authority to allot shares renewing the board 's power to modify preemption rights authorizing the company to purchase its own er , ordinary shares reducing the company 's share capital by repaying the existing preference shares er , making certain amendments to the company 's employee share schemes increasing the aggregate sum available for directors ' fees and authorizing the company to issue summary financial statements . |
| 13 | The use of the contractual conception of the company to give legitimacy to the vesting of managerial power in the directors of the company encountered two difficulties . |
| 14 | In the centre of the room sit two small , wizened figures , playing chess with unusual wooden pieces . |
| 15 | The failure of the bid followed two months of bitter rivalry , claims and counter-claims between executives of both groups . |
| 16 | Chalky footprints in the back of the car suggest two men joined Mr Abberley , occupying the rear seats . |
| 17 | The new fiction of the age revived two contrasting types of English hero . |
| 18 | The implementation of the interactivity involves two key issues . |
| 19 | Between 1958 and 1970 trade among the Six increased five times over , exports to the rest of the world expanded two and a half times , and Gross Domestic Product grew within the EEC at an average of five per cent per annum . |
| 20 | Bathtime Bear fixes quickly and easily to the side of the bath using two suction pads . |
| 21 | After his reforms a French 12-pounder gun could be drawn by only six horses and an 8-pounder by only four ( in each case about one-third of the number needed two centuries earlier ) while the interchangeable parts which he introduced made it possible to carry out repairs and replacements with hitherto unheard-of speed . |
| 22 | Then the roof of the grotto glowed two times lighting the water and the company a little , nothing was to be seen of the keeper or his coffin , as though it did not happen . |
| 23 | Scotland I found to most Peruvians who had heard of the place meant two things : whisky and Cubillas . |
| 24 | Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is . |
| 25 | We live in a world in which one third of the population consumes two thirds of the world 's resources . |
| 26 | Liverpool were distracted from the main business of the evening scoring two goals and the tie was gone . |