Example sentences of "[prep] two [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been passed on to Marie after two of the other trainees on the Community Care Course had failed to ‘ get on ’ with her . |
| 2 | The Trees reached down to Balor with their branches and spread him flat on the ground , unlashing the ground roots that had held him , replacing them with the strong , clutching roots of two of the largest Oaks . |
| 3 | This is only about the possible er partnership of two of the largest unions in Britain . |
| 4 | Our modified schedule was then applied to each of the subjects by one or other of two of the present authors ( either GW or RP ) . |
| 5 | And he believes that the success of two of the fastest-growing markets , network management and disaster recovery , is because ‘ they meet clearly-defined business needs ’ . |
| 6 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |
| 7 | The initial treatment of two of the major characters in the book , Bodser Brown and Audrey Parton , provides an interesting contrast . |
| 8 | Nicholas Payne is one of the inspirational architects of two of the major achievements of post-war British music — the Welsh National Opera and Opera North . |
| 9 | Within three months , the refugee from England had become the known and acknowledged assistant of two of the greatest powers in the land . |
| 10 | This young lady , Mr Bodenland , is the product of the union of two of the great minds of our time , the philosopher , William Godwin , and Mary Wollstonecraft , one of the great philosopical female minds to rank with my friend , Madame de Stael — who lives just across the lake , as you may know . |
| 11 | On 23 April 1991 , information which satisfied the requirements of two of the four precepts in issue was produced . |
| 12 | Phonetics and Phonology : — An extension of the core course to include a detailed consideration of two of the following topics : Allophones and allophonic transcription , with reference to dialectal varieties of English ; further work on supra-segmental features ; the nature of orthography ; introduction to acoustic phonetics . |
| 13 | Normally intended for Honours graduates in an appropriate subject who wish to study one or a combination of two of the following subjects in a Scottish context : traditional tales and songs ; ethnomusicology ; social life and history ; custom and belief ; material culture ; place-names . |
| 14 | We featured dramatic pictures of two of the masked boys pulling a replica gun on our front and centre pages . |
| 15 | The video records of two of the 30 drives were incomplete following equipment failures , thus those measures requiring the complete video record are reported for 28 subjects only . |
| 16 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
| 17 | Captain of the Thorhavn , Olaf Peterson , tells me there were men aloft fitting aerials up the sides of two of the three masts and there was talk that the gun deck of this maritime relic , renovated just before the war as a museum ship , was nov equipped with the very latest in electronics . |
| 18 | Sympathetic refereeing also kept matters within tolerable bounds until late on , the side-effect being that the visiting all-stars could be relieved that Welshman Derek Bevan , the World Cup final referee , has charge of two of the three internationals . |
| 19 | Instead they had offered unspecified cuts in troop levels , the disbanding of rural civil defence forces and the demilitarization of two of the three police units — to be placed under civilian ministries , if the guerrillas agreed to a ceasefire . |
| 20 | Cut 4cm ( 1½inches ) off the ends of two of the rectangular cakes and sandwich all four cakes together with some of the buttercream , the shorter ones on top , centred widthways but aligned at one end . |
| 21 | Taking a firm hold of two of the upright bars , he shook the gate vigorously , then gave it one last sharp forward thrust . |
| 22 | The immigration status of two of the arrested suspects was also being investigated last night . |
| 23 | The Mezey Report 's general recommendations were accepted by the Redbridge and Waltham Forest AHA , whose officers had responsibility for management of two of the psychiatric hospitals , Goodmayes and Claybury . |
| 24 | Members of the Rainbow ( Duha ) environmental movement have ended their blockade of two of the seven gates of the Temelin nuclear power plant . |
| 25 | One of two of the visiting psychiatrists were brought forth in a psychiatric chorus , singing in psychobabble : Bob Saxby was presented giving a learned discourse on the nature of the pot , insisting reassuringly in a phrase that needed no exaggeration , so frequently was it heard from him in real life , that ‘ a few irregularities add charm to a pot ’ . |
| 26 | Aimed at electronic publishing , software engineering and document imaging applications , it is pitched as a cheaper alternative to Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstation IPX — Hewlett says that at $18,480 , an HP 9000 Model 705 with two of the new stations gives a three-user configuration that is 20% more powerful at 37% less cost than three IPXs — Sun does n't go much on X-stations . |
| 27 | It is surprising that he attended Hall 's conclave as he had a well-known dislike of competitions , but it is less surprising that he was selected to be a judge in view of his connections with two of the other judges and the probability that he would not wish to enter the competition himself . |
| 28 | In an effort to boost agricultural exports , the Economy Minister reached a " fiscal pact " with two of the main farmers ' organizations , the Argentine Rural Society ( SRA ) and the Argentine Rural Confederation ( CRA ) , on March 18 . |
| 29 | Constructive and destructive waves correspond closely with two of the main types of breaker recognised today , namely spilling and plunging breakers . |
| 30 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |