Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] [art] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For example , Byrd [ 1989 ] solves the problem of matching word senses in different thesauri by computing a set of ’ sense property vectors ’ for each entry from the two thesauri , and then computing an ’ optimal ’ mapping of the two sets . |
| 3 | Now one of the jobs of the police force , and especially the CID , is to try to establish a pattern in crime , if this is possible , and in this instance both Sergeant Lewis and myself found it difficult not to believe there was some link between the two events . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There is an authentic parallel in this case of the two sisters chronicled by Kilvert : |
| 6 | So far as the theorizing and model-building enterprises of sociology are concerned , these also require some assessment with the two criteria of sociological visibility and social presence in mind . |
| 7 | The electoral law approved in October [ see pp. 37826-27 ] exceptionally allowed separate 5 per cent hurdles to be applied for this election in the two parts of the country . |
| 8 | Fitting the tee involves some manoeuvring of the two pipes this may mean removing some of the pipes from their clips |
| 9 | This was the work originally of the military order of Hospitallers , who established themselves here , at this confluence of the two valleys of Baréges and Gavarnie , in the twelfth century and built a miniature citadel , fortifying it as a defence against raids from across the mountains by Aragonese brigands . |
| 10 | This separation of the two pairs of voices is achieved by using longer ‘ holding notes ’ . |
| 11 | There is some correspondence between the two maps in the Mutoko District but the main correlation is between actual erosion and land tenure systems . |
| 12 | This divorce between the two elements is particularly marked among the salariat — the well-educated members ofthe professions and management — which has grown most in the past twenty years . |
| 13 | Only a small part of this difference between the two planets is due to the much longer night on Venus : the main reason is unknown . |
| 14 | This difference between the two atmospheres is largely a result of the large internal heat source in Jupiter , far more ( per unit mass of planet ) than in the case of the Earth . |
| 15 | This difference between the two structures accords very closely with the fact that while we can readily use nouns ( including even proper names ) in the prenominal attributive position to qualify other nouns , we seldom find the corresponding nouns distributed across subject and post-copular position : ( 3 ) the Atlanta flight his St. Francis medallion ( 4 ) the flight is Atlanta This medallion was St. Francis |
| 16 | This difference between the two archbishops was illustrated over the memorial requiem in York minster for Lord Halifax . |
| 17 | There is this difference between the two cases , that in Doe d . |
| 18 | This difference between the two types of slavery and the passage from one stage to the other is one which has been stressed again and again by anthropologists [ Goody , 1980 ; Bloch , 1980 ] . |
| 19 | Besides the fact that it is not always true — the bare infinitive has many uses where it is not in relation with an auxiliary — this distinction between the two infinitives is also purely distributional : Schibsbye simply lists the various contexts where each infinitive is found without developing any difference of meaning . |
| 20 | When we come to consider the activities of insurance companies as a form of financial intermediation this distinction between the two types of business will be crucial . |
| 21 | In fact I happened just to have spent the weekend with a dear friend and was well aware that at some point over the two days she had entertained everyone suspected of being concerned , and not a word of politics was discussed , nor a syllable about supplanting anybody . |
| 22 | Outside of London , too , generally over the South , the West and the South-east , a decline in real wages set in at some point in the two decades centred on 1760 , as money wages fell behind rising prices . |
| 23 | The problem was Ron Dennis and in a way , this clash between the two men is a microcosm of life in FI and deserves a brief aside . |
| 24 | This mismatching of the two causes of a rhythm can produce difficulties and these will be considered in detail in Chapters 10 and 12 . |
| 25 | However , this combination of the two signals does have one drawback ; it prevents pictures and sound from being erased and re-recorded separately during editing . |
| 26 | How shall we resolve this paradox of the two ways of looking at life ? |
| 27 | This similarity between the two prongs of the attack on classical foundationalism looks pleasing . |
| 28 | The study examines the application of this analysis in the two countries . |
| 29 | This arrangement might well have been satisfactory , with some accommodation between the two sides being not too difficult to achieve , but for the rancour that had been aroused in recent years . |
| 30 | Because the connection was not made exactly half way between the two caves , this dive actually involved some 3.5 kilometres of diving . |