Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] two [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the case study of Channel Four ( see below ) amply demonstrates , concerned groups and individuals attempted to keep these services out of the competitive struggle between the two giants of broadcasting in the hope that they would be better able to serve previously excluded minority groups in society . |
| 2 | What is more probably recalled in the myth with the conflict of Horus and Seth is an early struggle between the two kingdoms in which the ruler of Lower Egypt ( Horus being a local god from the Delta marshes ) conquered the ruler of Upper Egypt ( Seth being the local god of Ombos near Naqada ) . |
| 3 | All subjects were asked not to take any drug during the two days before the study . |
| 4 | The information from the general descriptions condition in Figure 7.1 shows an interaction between the two types of risk . |
| 5 | The " Dresden manifesto " , approved unanimously at the end of the conference , ( i ) stressed the importance of forging genuine unity between the two parts of the country ; and ( ii ) called for an end to the constitutional ban on using German troops outside the NATO arena and for their use in UN peacekeeping forces or in a future European force . |
| 6 | It was illuminated by a small bulb between the two thicknesses of the bulkhead . |
| 7 | Passenger traffic was never profitable , but it was a link between the two towns to be used by the sparse population as and when required . |
| 8 | The physical link between the two sides of the brain , known as the corpus callosum , has the ability to transfer information from one side to the other , so that the two aspects of mental function should not operate in isolation , but potentially have the capacity for interaction and interplay . |
| 9 | Refurbishment is a top priority , but for the moment the only S-Bahn link between the two halves of the city is at Friedrichstrasse , where dozens of western companies have offices . |
| 10 | I SEE that hysteria about the two bombs in London last weekend is prompting police and security services to press once again for national identity cards which will be compulsory at all times and forgery-proof . |
| 11 | The coincidence between the two representations of person ( in passing , both are representations of the same extra-linguistic entity ) is what calls for the use of the bare infinitive . |
| 12 | Community work is essentially concerned with affecting the course of social change through the two processes of analysing social situations and forming relationships with different groups to bring about some desirable change . |
| 13 | From his investigations into the divisions that the fighting produced within the village communities of Wiltshire , Somerset , and Devon , David Underdown concluded that ‘ the distribution of support for the two sides in the western counties shows how strongly Church and King were associated with the old festive culture ’ . |
| 14 | Although this represented no more than 4–5 per cent of their combined nuclear arsenals , it was nonetheless the first significant agreement of this kind between the two powers since the ABM treaty of 1972 , and was held by both sides to presage the conclusion of an agreement the following year which would make cuts of up to 50 per cent in strategic nuclear arms . |
| 15 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 16 | Blanche forced the screwdriver up into the crevice between the two halves of the sash window and heaved . |
| 17 | In order to sustain price discrimination between the two sets of purchasers , it may decide to integrate into the area of relatively elastic demand and charge a high price to the other . |
| 18 | The object was to examine the effect of view angle on discrimination between the two subjects at two angles of ( solar ) illumination . |
| 19 | Constant friction between the two nations at sea led , on 23 October 1739 , to the British government declaring war on Spain , the resulting conflict being known as ‘ The War of Jenkins 's ear ’ ; Robert Jenkins was the master of a British ship who had had his ear cut off by a Spanish officer during a search . |
| 20 | And perhaps most interesting of all : ‘ The great contrast between the two divisions of the Archipelago is nowhere so abruptly exhibited as on passing from the island of Bali to that of Lombok , where the two regions are in closest proximity . |
| 21 | The contrast between the two sets of definitions , the traditional and lexical on the one side and the current scientific usage on the other , is basic and obvious . |
| 22 | The contrast between the two men of near-identical appearance is shown in a less formal , more novelistic manner in the character of the King , depicted in The Prisoner of Zenda as a weak , pleasure-loving young man trying to equip himself for his destiny and in Rupert of Hentzau as a man ill in body , weaned by matters of state , gradually coming to resent his obligations to the man whose courage and energy have twice saved his position for him and burdened by jealous suspicions of his wife 's fidelity . |
| 23 | The contrast between the two men in this matter points to one last difference of outlook between them , to add to those already discussed . |
| 24 | One of the techniques now employed in many laboratories to assess differences in function between the two halves of the brain entails simultaneous presentation of competing information to the left and right ears . |
| 25 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 26 | Herodotus was able to establish some kind of time-sequence for the two centuries before his time , but he was a more diffuse writer than Thucydides , who was concerned with many events occurring in a shorter time interval . |
| 27 | Many in the legal profession hoped that the Committee would help heal the rift between the two branches of the legal profession . |
| 28 | OS/2 was the cause of a rift between the two rivals in 1991 . |
| 29 | the opposition between the two sorts of reason is relative , not absolute . |
| 30 | However , ensuing tension between the two countries over Kashmir , leading to threats of war , delayed its ratification . |