Example sentences of "as [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tait , with William Thomson , had published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867 which became a standard advanced textbook because it treated physics from the point of view of conservation of energy — fathering the doctrine , as became two Cambridge men , upon Newton : the ‘ return to Newton ’ was for them the key to modernity . |
| 2 | As well as writing two novels , he wrote several books about church architecture and liturgy , the best known being The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century , and numerous pamphlets , essays and letters to the press . |
| 3 | Never mind the fact they were as comfortable as wearing two fibre-glass tubes filled with iron filings , and stank like an incontinent old sheep dog when wet , they were natural wool and so considered correct . |
| 4 | Just as regards two children , that was all agreed by the parties . |
| 5 | Changes designed to improve education can therefore be regarded as having two sources : those initiated by decision makers at local or national level ; those initiated by teachers . |
| 6 | A map is most easily conceived as having two co-ordinates , like longitude and latitude on customary human maps . |
| 7 | In 1892 it was offered for sale , as having two water wheels and two steam engines , driving eight pairs of stones . |
| 8 | We may think of consciousness as having two components : sensation and perception on the one hand and willing or agency on the other ; or input and output . |
| 9 | This maintenance of a working class Tory vote sufficient to return the party to office can be thought of as having two components : first the reproduction of relatively stable social collectivities having a principle of identification outside the conception of ‘ class ’ which prompted most ‘ working class ’ people to vote Labour , and second a more conjunctural conversion of voters . |
| 10 | In table 5.1 , ( h ) is treated as binary , that is as having two variants , [ h ] and [ ? ] . |
| 11 | For my purposes here it is convenient to regard Barthes 's work as having two phases ; the first in which he is concerned with semiology , the second in which he is concerned with discourse . |
| 12 | At the same time as running two homes , Laura was still combining many roles in the factory . |
| 13 | A person 's social life is seen as involving two kinds of performances . |
| 14 | Where first class post is used , the document is treated as served two days after it was posted . |
| 15 | I eat around 2000 to 2500 calories per day , have a sedentary job and my weekly exercise schedule is as follows two x 30 minutes , one x 6 miles , two x 30 minutes weight training . |
| 16 | Garrison Savannah who almost won the National two years ago appears to have returned to his old form if you take his Gold Cup run on board for he was always in touch before blundering and losing his chance late in the race , but he may not stay the trip as happened two years ago when he was beaten by Seagram . |
| 17 | When Alayn , for instance , rouses the miller , who he thinks is John , to brag of his success with a familiar and confiding jest : " " … thou swines heed , awake ! " " ( 4262 ) , the epithet is ironically appropriate to the miller , especially as sixteen lines later the clerk and the miller are fighting " " … as doon two pigges in a poke " " . |