Example sentences of "[verb] on two counts " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 2 | defence insurers argued against the order 14 summons on two counts ; first the plaintiff could not obtain summary judgement because there were two defendants and one might escape liability ; secondly the first defendant sought leave to amend his defence to argue contributory negligence because the plaintiff had not worn a seat belt . |
| 3 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 4 | Gough , writing from a Marxist perspective , finds the de-industrialisation thesis wanting on two counts . |
| 5 | The advocate general found the British government lacking on two counts : failure adequately to enshrine in UK law the 1980 EC directive on drinking water , and the presence of excessive levels of nitrates in drinking water in 21 supply zones in East Anglia , and seven zones in the Severn Trent region . |
| 6 | What is beyond dispute is that the portfolio valuations benefited on two counts : firstly through translation of foreign share holdings into sterling at more advantageous rates , and secondly through the appreciation of the shares of those companies whose large overseas involvement made them beneficiaries of a lower pound . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom government was criticized on two counts , for detaining 90 Arab nationals during the Gulf war and for allegedly ill-treating suspects in police custody in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | Branded a " police spy " by Thorez , Nizan was pilloried on two counts : first , for spreading the pernicious doctrine of " National Communism " , that is , communism in word and nationalism in deed " secondly , for enacting in the reality of his life the treachery and cowardice portrayed in the fiction of his literature . |
| 9 | After two hours , Mitchum , Ford , Leeds and Vicki Evans were indicted on two counts : possession of marijuana and conspiracy to violate the State Narcotics Act . |
| 10 | Lightman ordered that Kruger be publicly reprimanded on two counts . |
| 11 | The head of a childrens home has been arrested and charged on two counts of rape . |
| 12 | But these experiments have been criticised on two counts . |
| 13 | The Field Marshal was to be tried on two counts : the first , that he had been responsible for the killing of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome and the second that he had incited his troops to act with unnecessary force against the partisans . |
| 14 | His wife , Jane , who had been convicted on two counts of extortion and conspiracy , was sentenced to three months . |
| 15 | The farm stockman Phillip Luff waso convicted on two counts of breaking a five year ban on keeping livestock , and fined two hundred pounds . |
| 16 | This plan failed on two counts . |
| 17 | Britain , he said , had failed on two counts . |
| 18 | However even before it came under attack from conservative administrations it had failed on two counts . |
| 19 | The defence that an " offer of amends " had been made failed on two counts : it had not been made " as soon as practicable " ( seven weeks had elapsed since publication ) and " reasonable care " had not been exercised , because a check with current stage directories would have revealed that the name chosen for the fictitious actress was the same as that used by a leading West End lady . |