Example sentences of "two [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another room adjacent to one of his two bathrooms lies some weight-lifting equipment : the needs of the mind are counterbalanced by those of the body . |
| 2 | Give me two minutes to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 3 | The following two cases illustrate some of the work of the War Pensions Officer and the Area Welfare Officers : |
| 4 | We had some two hours sleep that night , then proceeded to align our position before first light . |
| 5 | We spent about two hours doing this before going swimming . |
| 6 | One N , so if we add those up , keeping the numbers and the Ns separate , we get two O two O add that |
| 7 | The two groups hate each other , and a High-Heel will refuse to speak to a Low-Heel . |
| 8 | ( This is quite consistent with some suppliers who face a relatively low level of demand producing below normal , while those who face a relatively high level of demand produce above normal , the two groups offsetting each other . ) |
| 9 | Most often the two groups ignored each other , but tension fizzed in the air around them . |
| 10 | Allowing each of two groups to choose some part of the law of abortion , in proportion to their numbers , is fairer ( in our sense ) than the winner-take-all scheme our instincts prefer , which denies many people any influence at all over an issue they think desperately important . |
| 11 | It is easy to escape this issue by saying that the discourses of the two groups have little in common ; but discourse analysis should teach us that it is as likely to be our attitude to what they say that categorizes them . |
| 12 | The first two groups covered those under sixteen and over sixty-five years of age and young persons under eighteen who had been resident with British families , or in an educational establishment prior to internment . |
| 13 | If natural selection eliminates half the population in each generation , complete specification requires two generations of selection , one to eliminate C and G , and a second to eliminate T. Thus it takes two generations to specify each base . |
| 14 | It was easy to claim , as did Thomas Sprat in his History of the Royal Society ( 1667 ) , that the two reformations had this in common : Each prized the original copies of God 's two books , nature and the Bible , bypassing the corrupting influence of scholars and priests . |
| 15 | You must , therefore , perform two operations to achieve this : one to read modules out of LIFESPAN and the other to enter modules into LIFESPAN . |
| 16 | Where two continents collide neither experiences significant subduction but some crustal thickening occurs and a mountain belt is formed . |
| 17 | The second one to present the petition of one thousand three hundred and seventy two signatures asking that , who are opposed to Brady Hospital being turned into specialised unit for adolescents and to ask the county council not to proceed with plans to develop a group three community home on the site , erm I ask it be referred to the social services committee . |
| 18 | Taken together these two indices yield much information about the abundance or scarcity of each bird , how widely or evenly it is distributed , and how numbers of any species compare with others , perhaps particularly with its near relations . |
| 19 | As two molecules approach each other , their electron clouds mutually repel . |
| 20 | If the Californian clubs progress it would be the first World Series — which starts on 14 October — between the two cities facing each other across San Francisco Bay . |
| 21 | Lowering of embankment heights and improvements to the design of the Musselburgh Bypass can be achieved if Mucklets Road is closed where these two roads cross each other . |
| 22 | Of course , the coexistence of these two meanings does little to help anyone puzzled by what exactly a social representation is . |
| 23 | ‘ The two signs complement each other , but you are the twin I want , not Dana . ’ |
| 24 | Two solicitors challenged this decision but the House of Lords held that since , in administering the scheme , the Society was acting in a public capacity in the interests of all solicitors and members of the public who employed them , the legality of its decision was to be judged according to principles of public law , not private law ; and so judged , what the Society had done was a proper use of its statutory powers . |
| 25 | Two reasons explain this low success-rate . |
| 26 | But there are two reasons to suspect this argument of being less than compelling . |
| 27 | The machines find them , or anyway , enough of them , so that the computers can often win despite an intrinsic quality of play that is so inane as to be comic , as is readily apparent when two computers play each other . |
| 28 | Since ApT , GpT and GpC are cut with similar efficiency in both ( AT ) n and ( GC ) n sequences we have examined the cleavage of two fragments containing both types of sites . |
| 29 | Two restaurants open this month on the sites of well-known Eighties eateries . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Mary , I had to journey two centuries to find such a lover ! |