Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This story proves two features of Tory Britain I am constantly emphasising .
2 This sentence mentions two events , one of questioning and one of seeing .
3 This provision comprises two honours degrees and two diploma courses , ( one in conjunction with the NI Hotel and Catering College ) , offered under the aegis of the Department of Hotel and Catering Management .
4 This chapter uses two techniques to investigate media influence .
5 As industries continue to concentrate at the world level , the forces described in this chapter raise two possibilities .
6 This chapter proffers two theses : a general and a comparative thesis .
7 This chapter examines two aspects of organizational planning : the corporate plan , which usually covers a period of three to live years ; and the annual budget , which looks at one year of that plan in much greater detail .
8 Under the headings of ‘ academic ’ and ‘ public ’ libraries , this chapter examines two subjects .
9 This chapter addresses two questions : first , how important temporary jobs are as a step into employment for unemployed people ; second , to what extent the ending of temporary jobs is an important reason for becoming unemployed ?
10 This subsection creates two offences : robbery and assault with intent to rob .
11 This subsection covers two situations .
12 This figure assumes two craft in use , each running for 2000–3000 hours a year over an average 19 km route at 55 km/h .
13 This figure shows two examples .
14 This programme involves two years ( the first and last ) at college , and two years ' teaching in schools .
15 This entry contains two fields .
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17 This exercise took two days .
18 I would suggest that this exercise involves two stages — firstly defining those aspects of transport services which should be covered by such an audit , and secondly , attempting to devise measurable indicators which are appropriate to use in describing to what extent transport services meet aspirations in each area .
19 This work had two novelties .
20 This work took two directions .
21 This work demonstrated two things .
22 ‘ The reason , Ranulf , ’ Corbett announced softly , his face only a few inches from his servant 's , ‘ is that I am trying to find out if , from some eighteen months ago , the ale-masters and tavern-keepers along this highway remember two foreigners , a young woman and her male companion .
23 This circuit has two outputs ( one to represent each state ) called Q and ( pronounced Q bar ) .
24 This process entailed two stages :
25 This crisis takes two forms : the size of the prison population ’ ( combined with the lack of prison places and the running expenses of locking up and catering for such a large number of prisoners ) ‘ and the demands on the probation and after-care service ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 5 ) .
26 This group holds two seminars a year in different parts of Britain and brings together housing researchers and practitioners to discuss policy issues .
27 This quotation poses two problems :
28 This suspicion had two causes : he felt that many of the anthropologists underrated the significance of thought , and secondly he suspected the political motives of at least some of them .
29 This behaviour has two facets .
30 This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state .
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