Example sentences of "two [noun] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 2 | Blanch these in boiling water for two minutes and drain well . |
| 3 | ‘ To see a hundred men in a circle reduced to sobs in two minutes and hear the woods echoing with the sound was extraordinary . ’ |
| 4 | The two cases that have been mentioned occurred about ten years afterwards , and these may have been removed against their will . |
| 5 | Tea with Madame Rochard sometimes , and walking to Miss Lucchesi 's and back , and those two hours that go by like water flowing through a sieve . |
| 6 | We demand that it changes , we beg of it to alter our lives , we leave it for two hours and assume it will be different when we get back . |
| 7 | Staff meetings take place once a week for one to two hours and rotate between Tuesdays and Thursdays to ensure maximum attendance by part-time staff . |
| 8 | The trouble with Quassia ( Letters , November 7 ) is that the extract is unstable , so you need to boil the dry chips for two hours and strain off the liquid each time you need to use it . |
| 9 | And we 'd shut them out shunt them out and then we 'd collect the two coaches and take them over to the main yard , and put them under a cleaning platform you see for the cleaners . |
| 10 | He wants to restore it to its original castellated glory to provide a home for wife Annie and two sons and realise a 15-year dream . |
| 11 | On an average Sunday , more people hear these two programmes than go to church in the whole of Britain . |
| 12 | There was no difference in the drop out rate attributed to lack of efficacy among the two groups but drop out because of side effects was slightly more common among patients taking tricyclic antidepressants ( tables II and III ) . |
| 13 | If men from different lineages in the same section were in dispute , their lineage shaikhs would meet as representatives of the two groups and try to bring the affair to a conclusion ; they could , if necessary , collect compensation from their members and receive it on their behalf . |
| 14 | If your list of suspect foods is very extensive , it may be better to split them into two groups and try eliminating each group in turn . |
| 15 | The young men split the cattle into two groups and head off to find pasture . |
| 16 | erm equally if you ca n't get any significant differences between the five different groups of five people you can try and split the stuff up , once you 've got the data you can try and split it up in other ways , divide them into two groups and see |
| 17 | The two will develop and qualify a general-purpose 0.35-micron CMOS technology by the end of 1994 for volume production the following year , which will involve shrinking the smallest feature sizes on logic chips by more than two times and increase the layers of metal interconnect , increasing the number of transistors that can be integrated on logic devices by a factor of 10 compared with products such as current-generation Am386 devices and Hewlett-Packard 's 99MHz Precision Architecture RISC — the Am386 devices are manufactured in 0.8-micron technology . |
| 18 | In brief , he has to step back two generations and undergo what one may call a painful cultural circumcision ( God 's Lively People , Fontana , 1971 ) . |
| 19 | It took Everton only 15 minutes to get their noses in front when Mark Ward made the opening for Matt Jackson to burst between two defenders and pull the ball back for Cottee to steer it wide of the helpless Mark Crossley . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly , there is a sectarian crank somewhere in Scotland who will count the references to the two clubs and imagine the book to be biased . |
| 21 | They recognise that not all interests in society are organised into groups and in order to explain this state of affairs they see it as important to consider two phenomena that tend to be ignored by pluralists . |
| 22 | Two interactions that have now become of critical importance are the effect of the ozone layer on the passage of ultraviolet radiation ; and the effect of carbon dioxide and various other gases on infra-red radiation . |
| 23 | But when Alex is shown two objects that differ in one of three respects : colour , shape or the material of which they are made and asked ‘ What 's different ? ’ , |
| 24 | The two roads that go by way of Anglet , a suburb which has accumulated to fill in the gap between the two towns , are no better than functional . |
| 25 | Former senior vice-president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California property market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible . |
| 26 | Former senior vice president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California real-estate market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible . |
| 27 | No definitive explanations have been worked out for the differences between the two concentrations that lie 3000 kilometres apart in Antarctica . |
| 28 | I am going to tell you of two glimpses that have retained their clarity for me over the years while important and famous things have faded . |
| 29 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |
| 30 | Under the resolution , the sanctions committee would review matters every two months and let Iraq import more if ‘ humanitarian ’ need required . |