Example sentences of "two [noun pl] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're going to have to do something — because I simply ca n't tell you two imps of mischief apart , ’ Laura muttered , groaning as she levered herself up against the pillows . |
| 2 | In considering the issue of entitlement to access , my college would be required to look at two groups of learners hitherto excluded — students with profound or multiple disabilities and students with challenging behaviour . |
| 3 | The rapid alternate contraction of these two groups of muscles consequently raises and lowers the wings by their action upon the dorsal wall of the thorax . |
| 4 | Challis and Davies ( 1985 , p. 578 ) identified two groups of clients particularly suitable for life at home with social care planning as a cost effective answer for social service departments : |
| 5 | Shown here are the reptiles from which the two groups of dinosaurs probably originated . |
| 6 | At least two groups of bats then , two groups of birds , toothed whales , and probably several other kinds of mammals to a smaller extent , have all independently converged on the technology of sonar , at some time during the last hundred million years . |
| 7 | The two pairs of prisoners hardly noticed : they were too busy exchanging news . |
| 8 | Yet all these different forms are variations of one basic anatomical pattern : a body divided into three distinct parts — a head bearing the mouth and most of the sense organs ; a thorax filled almost entirely with muscles to operate the three pairs of legs beneath and , usually , one or two pairs of wings above ; and an abdomen carrying the organs needed for digestion and reproduction . |
| 9 | Two pairs of boots now . |
| 10 | Nevertheless Dr Neil encouraged Rose to help ; he said that he really needed two pairs of hands now that Effie was fully dilated . |
| 11 | The months rolled by and despite everything I did all my two pairs of fish ever produced were eggs which fungused . |
| 12 | These two views of style evidently concern the general properties of literary language more than the individual features of authors or texts , whereas it is to these features that the stylistics of representation and manner both give their attention . |
| 13 | These two patterns of behaviour both involve layers in which there is convection due to the driving component little modified by the presence of the other component . |
| 14 | The repressor is a dimer ( M r 23,992 ) of identical 104-amino-acid subunits , which binds two molecules of SAM non-cooperatively ; its three-dimensional structure has already been reported in the presence and absence of corepressor . |
| 15 | There were two cans of beer inside ; she took one . |
| 16 | Lyddy put the final touches to her hair and slipped two ropes of pearls carefully over the finished edifice . |
| 17 | One practical goal must be to marry these two styles of computation so as to gain the best of both . |
| 18 | Once the winter rains have passed , Delhi experiences two months of weather so perfect and blissful that they almost compensate for the climatic extremes of the other ten months of the year . |
| 19 | Then she went to look for Esther to make plans , for at least there would be Esther in these appalling two months of honeymoon ahead . |
| 20 | The tunnels were built in the reign of George the third … but engineers say they 've stood up to two centuries of wear remarkably well . |
| 21 | To illustrate the difference between the two schools of thought more clearly , it is useful to derive the aggregate demand ( AD ) curve and the aggregate supply ( AS ) curve . |
| 22 | The two schools of thought then do not diverge to the extent that has first appeared . |
| 23 | Here I focus on the genealogy of two aspects of discrimination already addressed by this study , namely displacement between the political and the sexual , and the idea of perversion as an inimical absence . |
| 24 | A lot of these were books written by moralistic females ; books which erm reflected various kinds of Victorian ideas , and much later on when I did some research in Oxford on Victorian literature I found a way of putting these two sorts of things together . |
| 25 | There are two sorts of sorrel commonly grown as herbs : the English and the French . |
| 26 | To keep our individual definitions as simple as possible we will define two sorts of program mutually . |
| 27 | As time went on , moreover , there was an increasing tendency for one of the two secretaries of state clearly to dominate the other and become in effect foreign minister . |
| 28 | Two tablespoons of oil so |
| 29 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 30 | The difference in focus between these two models of support inevitably generates a different set of criteria with which to evaluate them , since it is the aim of the work that determines the criteria required . |