Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE and fire officers were last night still investigating the cause of a fire which badly damaged two car workshops in farm outbuildings . |
| 2 | Topped with the typical cynical yet liberal chorus , ‘ William It Was Really Nothing ’ appeared as a complete condemnation of the ‘ Glenda Brownlow ’ approach towards marriage ; simply another of Morrissey 's attempts to dispense with a traditionally Northern , working class system , an assault on an institution which effectively freezes two people into whatever mundane existence they live , as a blindly accepted method of halting all ambition . |
| 3 | Of the new species , which only arrived two weeks ago , the H . |
| 4 | The saloon , which only has two doors and is not sold in Germany , will account for just a tiny fraction of the 37,000 cars Volkswagen intends to export to Britain during 1991 . |
| 5 | The rent for our house , which only has two small rooms , is 250 colones . |
| 6 | It is a collection of those countries which generally have two things in common : they abut on to the ocean , and they are in some positive — always positive — way economically or politically vibrant . |
| 7 | This was Hinkley Point , an industrial complex on the Somerset coast which already housed two nuclear power stations , and which proudly boasted in its publicity that it was ‘ Britain 's biggest ’ . |
| 8 | The operation , which normally takes two and a half hours , lasted twice as long , allowing the surgeons and systems engineers to mix the robot technology with traditional procedures . |
| 9 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 10 | In the old method , barley grain was swollen by soaking in water for two or three days , then spread out on floors and exposed to air at a constant temperature to induce germination , which usually took two to three weeks . |
| 11 | IN 1989 Hannah achieved a long-held ambition when a new friend , Mrs nancy smith , who has a farm in Stokesley , took her to Stokesley Show — an event which usually merits two full pages of text and pictures in the Darlington Times and Echo which are always read with deep interest by Hannah , who loves flowers , particularly roses . |
| 12 | The French team was a scratch combination which included players from the Albion Cricket Club , a sporting club for expatriates living in Paris which still flourishes two years after its centenary . |
| 13 | They knew of a fourth case , later confirmed to be that of Keith Parchment , and believed the fifth referred to the Brown case , which technically involved two separate trials . |
| 14 | Fine china and investment banking inevitably er , er er er er suffered from the economic conditions so did entertainment er , which also brought two extra burdens er , firstly the er marked reduction in tourism and , er , for the first time , a three and a half million pound er , bill for Alton Towers ' loss-making winter quarter which I think we , we 've flagged er , quite consistently . |
| 15 | The players and officials enjoyed a cold buffet lunch in a marquee which also took two hours but included a number of speeches and a Loyal Toast . |
| 16 | Yet more decisively , it is not all of the general property , including that part or whatever that is involved in the soup tureen , which also weighs two pounds , that is flattening the napkin . |
| 17 | Santa Clara , California-based Software Publishing Corp has been hit by a shareholder class action lawsuit alleging securities violations between January 21 1993 and April 2 1993 , which also names two of the company 's officers as defendants : the company says the suit has no merit and will fight it vigorously . |
| 18 | The American delegation , which also includes two businessmen and the editor of New York newspaper Irish Voice , arrived in Belfast after spending yesterday meeting political leaders in the Republic . |
| 19 | They belong to the family Monodactylidae which also contains two species of Schuettea and one species of Psettias . |
| 20 | In this sense , the description of themselves as ‘ ordinary ’ was an identity which simultaneously expressed two things : it indicated their own class position , between the extraordinary highly placed and the extraordinarily lowly placed , and at the same time , by its yearning to transcend class identity , it expressed the tensions of that position . |
| 21 | The frontage was subsequently occupied by a building ( 3a ) on lias and Hamstone footings , measuring 18 by 6.5 m ( 59 by 21 ft ) , which originally comprised two rooms to which a third was added on the north . |
| 22 | A fresh sheet of snow had fallen in the night which now lay two or three inches thick , the cold wind freezing it hard . |
| 23 | Small as his or her influence may be — and it may not be small — the situation is one which now involves two people instead of one , a triad instead of a dyad , a family-plus-an-outsider rather than a family on its own . |
| 24 | Completion of the new extension , which now connects two factory units into one much larger complex , has meant considerable reorganisation within Lyle Carpets . |
| 25 | Also dropped was Industry and Energy Minister Augusto Montesdeoca Galagorri , who was replaced by Eduardo Ache of the Colorado Party 's Unión Colorada y Batllista faction ( which now held two portfolios , the other being Tourism ) . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most dramatic example is our vdiff product which simply compares two files . |
| 27 | Johnson disliked the riding he had experienced on Skye , complaining of its ‘ unsocial ’ nature , owing to the usual narrowness of the way which never permitted two abreast ; and , he said , ‘ you can not indulge in meditation by yourself , because you must be always attending to the steps which your horse takes ’ . |
| 28 | They have said the planned 44 disabled parking spaces in the Abbots Yard car park , which currently has two , will be strictly controlled to prevent the able bodied using them . |