Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Chlorine , though , already one of the main commodity businesses when ICI began in the 1920s , still accounts for a remarkable 12% of total sales ; the proportion will be reduced by last month 's decision to shut two chlorine plants at Hillhouse , Lancashire . ) |
| 2 | The reason for this curious approach is the author 's intention to fuse two books into one . |
| 3 | Nerina 's card showed two years of B pluses and A minuses in communication studies and sociology , and then a term of Cs and Ds , and then back up to straight As . |
| 4 | The tenant 's adviser has two approaches . |
| 5 | So CND 's future has two stages . |
| 6 | DSM 's work has two purposes : to attempt to solve some of the practical difficulties associated with successful restoration , such as dampness and the type of pigments used in the paintings ; and to judge some the hypotheses put forward by art historians on their scientific merit ( this is being done with the plasterwork from St Servatius ) . |
| 7 | [ That this House condemns British Coal for its closure of the Coventry Colliery at Keresely with the loss of 1,300 jobs , completed in a mere 13 days from the announcement of the decision to the working of the last shift ; believes that the pit is not abandoned but mothballed with 40 million tonnes of good quality reserves of medium sulphur content which will be kept on a care and maintenance basis until a link-up is organised by a privatised Daw Mill Colliery should the Government be re-elected ; condemns British Coal 's refusal to attend two meetings of local authority and parish councillors , local honourable Members of this House and church representatives and notes the absence at the meetings of 24th October and 11th November of the local Tory honourable Members ; and calls for a public inquiry into the methods of the closure and the false economics which talk of losses ' yet fail to take into account the future cost to public funds of lost production and taxes paid , and of dole and unemployment payments to be made . ] |
| 8 | Finally , suppose that the upstream firm 's product has two uses with very different elasticities of demand . |
| 9 | ‘ Fedorov 's wife died two years ago . |
| 10 | This date may be changed as Marion 's father died two days before Christmas and Chris 's father has recently been admitted to hospital in Greenwich . |
| 11 | Ceauşescu 's policy killed two birds with one stone : on the one hand , he began the process of ridding Romania of what he considered troublesome alien minorities and earned hard currency from their new countries for the privilege ; and at the same time , he gained a reputation in the West as a ‘ good ’ communist , a man to do business with — in this case , by bartering for human beings . |
| 12 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 13 | The best and worst day of Jenny 's life arrived two months later . |
| 14 | Mr Alton 's call follows two petitions signed by more than 700 parents demanding a security guard for the school and the renovation of a derelict bungalow on the site for use by a caretaker . |
| 15 | Mr Fitzwilliam 's acquittal came two weeks after Mr John Briggs , deputy chairman of engineering group Wheway , was cleared of allegations of illegal share trading . |
| 16 | Wolfgang Iser points out that Ingarden 's analysis implies two types of indeterminacy : that which is eventually eliminated in the process of ‘ realization ’ and that which is integral to the world of the text and a constitutive aspect of its status as fiction ( Iser 1978:173 ) . |
| 17 | David Stirk 's effort stopped two rolls short of forcing a third extra hole . |
| 18 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 19 | The formal presentation of the reshuffled Cabinet was cancelled , however , after a boycott by members of the CSR protesting at curtailed discussion of a parliamentary commission 's report implicating two Cabinet ministers in a previous failed coup attempt . |
| 20 | A great deal has been written , in the last few months , about the Institute 's ability to straddle two horses at the same time : can it serve the public interest while serving members ' interests ? |
| 21 | ‘ I find people 's ability to have two standards — one for advertising and one for programming — quite absurd , ’ he says . |
| 22 | Harris batted for 155 minutes and hit five fours in his innings while Puddle 's stay lasted two minutes less . |
| 23 | Panic 's visit followed two days of clashes in Pristina on Oct. 12-13 between police and unarmed Albanians demanding the right to education in the Albanian language and the reopening of Albanian schools . |
| 24 | Today 's professional has two assistants , reflecting an increased amount of teaching , shop sales , professional tournaments and playing requests . |
| 25 | Yesterday 's judgment raises two issues . |