Example sentences of "that [noun] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But if I told you that Harvey borrowed two paperback books from me last night . ’ |
| 2 | He argued that inventions have two parts : the product itself , which must be ‘ startling , unexpected and come to a world which is not prepared ’ , and the ‘ gestalt ’ in which the product is embedded : |
| 3 | Remember that Ireland lost two tests in Windhoek just the year before and both Wales and France ‘ B ’ have escaped with marrow wins . |
| 4 | Mark gives the extra detail that Simon had two sons called Alexander and Rufus . |
| 5 | Remember that economists mean two things by efficiency : first , that firms are on the lowest possible cost curve ( absence of slack and waste ) ; and , second , that the balance of activities in the economy is Pareto-efficient : resource reallocation would not increase social welfare . |
| 6 | Todd 's detailed analyses relate the distribution of these family types to cultural development processes , leading to the conclusion that development involves two processes : the first is ‘ self-generated take-off ’ ( p. 176 ) and there is ‘ a geographical coincidence between the distribution of these family types and that of the literacy take-off ’ ; the second is the outward diffusion of development from the initial poles , which ‘ occurs all the faster , the more receptive to it is the anthropological terrain' . |
| 7 | We know from the Domesday Book that Hailing had two ministers . |
| 8 | When you saying , you saying that people had two points in their lounge |
| 9 | What she did not know was that Freddie had two children by his other woman . |
| 10 | As a preliminary , we must note that Thai has two forms to correspond to the English word old ; one is ( with superscript 2 indicating low tone ) which is used of animate beings , and the other is , applied to inanimates . |
| 11 | It is often forgotten that trainees have two genders . |
| 12 | Some people dispute the use of the phrase ‘ one-parent ’ on the grounds that children have two parents but are being raised by a ‘ lone ’ parent . |
| 13 | Buck Finnegan was going to take 7 , which meant that Stevie had two strokes to force a ‘ sudden death ’ play-off . |
| 14 | ( previously the independence of the Broadcasting Company of Northern Nigeria , BCNN , at Kaduna and its use of powerful short wave had meant that Nigeria had two voices in international broadcasting . ) |
| 15 | Difficulties are posed for the review process by Oxford Polytechnic 's version of modularity , but most of these are not intrinsically produced by modular design : for example , the requirement that students study two subjects inevitably complicates review , but is not an essential feature of modular courses and frequently exists in non-modular systems . |
| 16 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 17 | And yet ii is true in a way that women have two jobs … ’ |