Example sentences of "in pairs " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tested children in pairs so that each child in the pair observed visual illusions from different angles such that one child saw one kind of illusory view and the partner saw an opposite but equally conflicting view . |
| 2 | Sanger duty is particularly boring because there is nothing else to do but look out of the window , and since it is rarely done in pairs social interaction provides no compensation . |
| 3 | The observational data was collected at a time when the men went in pairs , but they expressed concern over how this latest development worked against effective community policing : |
| 4 | Four teams deploy in pairs for a VCP task . |
| 5 | While this ambitious adolescent completes his long path of challenge and conquest , he terrorises everyone in his way — including researchers , who have to observe the chimps in pairs . |
| 6 | At times the foxes work in pairs , one distracting the sow , or ewe , while the other grabs the offspring . |
| 7 | At November 's ‘ Caring for the Carers ’ day , Joe Campbell put youth workers in pairs to talk and pray together about their need . |
| 8 | Hallucigenia 's tentacles appear to be singletons ; if they are in fact legs , they should come in pairs . |
| 9 | In pairs marching side by side , or one behind the other ? |
| 10 | The awful prospect of dropping a priceless Ming vase , everyone 's idea of a nightmare , is minimised by working in pairs , with one person observing the necessary details from a safe distance and the other handling the object . |
| 11 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 12 | In anthropomorphic terms , we should not ask why complex organisms have found it beneficial to be diploid , but why genes living in pairs should have found it beneficial to construct complex bodies to protect and replicate them . |
| 13 | Besides , the other girls were already walking along in pairs . |
| 14 | The men 's rowing trials were all in pairs and the racing for every place in both the men 's pairs A final and the B final , to settle seventh to 12th places , was very fine . |
| 15 | In the wild they live in forests in the eastern Himalayas and western China at an altitude of 2,000 to 4,000 metres , living in pairs or small family groups , or more usually alone . |
| 16 | In pairs one partner assumes the role of any one of the people in the photograph and tells the other ( a colleague , friend or relative ) why he is tempted to go on the journey . |
| 17 | The relatively unchanging conditions of forest life ( i.e. K conditions ) suggest that the adult population is near the food limit at all times and that adults have difficulty in rearing young ; they therefore need to collaborate in pairs . |
| 18 | They have bodies divided into segments , and their legs and jaws are arranged in pairs . |
| 19 | Seeds of the maple family are typically in pairs , joined at the base , with flat ‘ wings ’ that help the seeds to disperse . |
| 20 | The theoretical wheel load was about 20 tons , but since the wheels were in pairs , and not suspended on flexible bogeys , unless the rails were level , the wheels on the higher level might be carrying the load for the pair . |
| 21 | When boats were travelling on improved sections they would go in pairs . |
| 22 | Six mobile offices were even stacked in pairs across the college lawn to accommodate some of the dozens of people employed by the Board especially for the event . |
| 23 | in pairs compare and discuss lists and compile a new agreed list ; |
| 24 | In pairs then in fours and finally as a whole staff mark the performance of your school as a point laying between each pair of opposites . |
| 25 | We were to jump in pairs . |
| 26 | It is usually solitary and occasionally found in pairs , except for the breeding season when schools are formed . |
| 27 | With the final diagnostic criterion that depends on the gonococcus 's propensity for going round in pairs as ‘ diplococci ’ we have the microscopic finding that enables the diagnosis to be made in cases of suspected gonorrhoea — Gram-negative intracellular diplococci . |
| 28 | When Hanns wrote an article for the London magazine Ballet Today about South African achievements , he described it as having ‘ all the qualities which a good valentine should possess … the girls flit , skip and drift hither and thither in pairs or threes , giggle coyly and point with gloved hands , while the sentimental , romantic Pierrot searches among them for his true love . |
| 29 | Toys were shown to the child in pairs , one a particularly attractive and interesting toy , of the kind most children would want to touch , the other with much less appeal . |
| 30 | In this study one group of children learned to choose the less attractive of two toys in pairs where the forbidden toy was always of one colour and therefore easy to identify . |