Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been little enough to choose between the two killings , yet all the difference in the world between the fates of those responsible : the one retired with honours , the other shot by firing squad at the age of twenty-eight . |
| 2 | Catalogues will say , for example ‘ 40 coloured plates , other illus. in text ’ , sufficiently distinguishing between the two types . |
| 3 | John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women . |
| 4 | This can be best understood as the two hemispheres being engaged in a co-operative exercise , to which each contributes according to the task it is specialised to perform . |
| 5 | both sides are full of promising and talented men , and the present series could well become one of the best played between the two countries if good sense prevails . |
| 6 | Last year , only two salmon climbed Idaho Lower Granite Dam compared with 4,500 in 1950. 100 sub-species have already disappeared from the two rivers and the Shoshone-Bannock native American tribe , the National Marine Fisheries Service and conservation groups have petitioned to have the remaining species listed . |
| 7 | My 12 × 40 binoculars will just take in the two Pointers to Polaris , Merak and Dubhe , which are 5 degrees of arc apart ; the 7 × 50 pair will contain them very easily , while , naturally , 20 × 70 will not . |
| 8 | Just George , just to respond to the two points that have just been made . |
| 9 | A joint congressional committee drew up a common version of the two bills which was duly approved by the two chambers , and was signed into law on Sept. 22 by President Fidel Ramos . |
| 10 | This was quickly resolved by the two sets of genes agreeing to merge and run the cell jointly and then draw straws for the chance to enter each egg or sperm . |
| 11 | Where they do not coincide the coastal orientation usually lies between the two directions , being nearer to the one which is dominant . |
| 12 | Last night , a police spokesman said : ‘ We are still looking for the two boys , aged about 10-14 years … |
| 13 | There was a big double door kept permanently open between the two rooms , and it was as comfortable a place as you could imagine . |
| 14 | But the parties are also deeply influenced by the two ends of their operations , the one end being in the constituencies and the other in the Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet . |
| 15 | The INF treaty , agreed at Washington the previous December , was formally signed by the two leaders on 1 June , following its ratification a few days earlier by the US Senate and by the USSR Supreme Soviet ( the first Soviet rockets were destroyed , to some publicity , in early August ) . |
| 16 | In 1286 and 1290 , moreover , Pecham had no doubt been further reassured by the two statutes of Circumspecte agatis and Consultation , which respectively defined some boundaries of jurisdiction and allowed ecclesiastical courts to proceed where writs of prohibition had been inappropriately obtained . |
| 17 | The talks , which had begun in September 1990 with the objects of easing political and military tension on the Korean peninsula and of promoting greater links between the two states , had involved three meetings between delegations led by the premiers of the two countries , thereby representing the highest level of contact ever achieved by the two countries . |
| 18 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 19 | Slow sales will encourage Microsoft to innovate and IBM to hedge , which will make customers cautious , which will slow sales , which will encourage further tiffs between the two companies , and so on . |
| 20 | Although there has been some shift in the 1980s to the political right in the United States and West Germany , the socialist share of the vote has hardly changed over the two decades in Austria , Scandinavia , West Germany , and Italy . |
| 21 | There has of course been some criticism in the books of the decision in Stilk v. Myrick which is somewhat differently reported in the two sets of reports , but Campbell 's reports have the better reputation and what I have referred to as being the law on this point is referred to as ‘ the present ’ rule in Chitty on Contracts : see , also , Cheshire and Fifoot . |
| 22 | The truth probably lies between the two extremes . |
| 23 | Disraeli was later to talk of the Two Nations , the Rich and the Poor , who could exist side by side in the same country with no knowledge of each other 's way of life . |
| 24 | It was also agreed between the two Districts that if any courses were proposed within a zone extending about three miles on either side of their new , shared boundary the Districts would confer to determine how the demand might best be met . |
| 25 | Of these , three did not clearly differentiate between the two systems . |
| 26 | A letter of intent also calls for the two firms to cross-license and resell each other 's products . |
| 27 | The investigator 's overall assessments were also compared for the two treatments after adjusting for sex , initial disease severity , hospital centre , and treatment option at day 14 . |
| 28 | This happens because sodium ions ( Na+ ) are pumped actively out of the cell , while potassium ( K+ ) ions are pumped in until they are unevenly distributed between the two compartments . |
| 29 | Differences also emerge between the two sets of acridine-tethered complexes . |
| 30 | Philip , affectionately supported by the two women , got the hot water system working . |