Example sentences of "two [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He flashed his security pass under the eyes of the two armed guards posted beside the exit door . |
| 2 | Within the pulse period of 102ms , the γ -emission forms a single broad peak , in contrast to the two narrow peaks seen in the other high-energy γ -ray pulsars . |
| 3 | Lane , whose two European victories came in the 1987 Equity & Law Challenge and 1988 Scottish Open , earned £25,000 plus a special £5,000-a-year-for-five years award from the host club . |
| 4 | The National Republic Convention ( NRC ) , the more right-wing of the two political parties created by the military government in 1990 , won 16 of the 30 state governorships and gained control of the assemblies in 13 states ; its opponent , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) won control of 16 assemblies , including those in three states — Lagos , Katsina and Cross River — where the NRC won the gubernatorial poll . |
| 5 | The bistable multivibrator or flip-flop shown in figure 10.14(d) has two stable states corresponding to the two possible saturated output levels . |
| 6 | Except for two strange items remaining in the flames — |
| 7 | His two strange secretaries slid into the room and , without a flicker of a glance at us , went to sit at another table . |
| 8 | The Vatican in December 1989 ordered the closure in Recife on the east coast of two progressive seminaries founded by the former Archbishop of Olinda and Recife , the Most Rev. Helder Câmara . |
| 9 | At a primary school , Joan , a teacher of five years ' experience , notices two 9-year-old pupils scuffling in the corridor . |
| 10 | Following the two multimeter add-ons described in the last two instalments of Circuit Surgery , several readers have suggested that a simple device for directly measuring capacitance would be extremely useful . |
| 11 | One of the girls got up to answer it and two well-dressed women came into the room . |
| 12 | So I took my knife and cut almost through the rope , then waited , listening to the sound of two loud voices coming from the cabin . |
| 13 | These two professional bodies continue to the present day , with their members enjoying an equal professional status . |
| 14 | Two strong themes run through the book . |
| 15 | Two strong furrows run across the back of the carapace of this crab , which is knobbly , and , on a fine scale , covered with minute pits . |
| 16 | As many as 18 executives from the two British companies implicated in the supergun affair ( Sheffield Engineering and Walter Summers ) were taken in for questioning by UK customs officials . |
| 17 | The UK had no direct representation in Tripoli , although two British officials worked at the Italian embassy to represent British interests . |
| 18 | Other equally valid fits might also be obtained by allowing the 18-day decay to depart from a pure exponential ; it would then be possible , for example , to obtain a solution in which the two asymptotic increases account for the whole of the increase in rotation rate . |
| 19 | TWO old stagers return to the boards on video this month . |
| 20 | Two old friends met in the street . |
| 21 | The French government disclosed on July 5 that it had decorated Lt.-Col. Alain Mafart , one of the two French agents convicted for the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship , Rainbow Warrior , in Auckland harbour in 1985 [ see pp. 33852-55 ; 34565-68 ] . |
| 22 | But as they did so , they unknowingly broke the invisible beam linking two electronic eyes set in the surrounding trees . |
| 23 | Admittedly two Gallic chronicles survive from the fifth century , and the Chronicle of Gregory 's own contemporary Marius of Avenches is a text of utmost importance with regard to the territories once ruled by the Burgundian kings . |
| 24 | Two further instances bring into the picture the various analogues to the Reeve 's Tale . |
| 25 | Two further programmes alluding to the resignation , due to be aired on Jan. 4 and 11 , had also been blocked . |
| 26 | Irritable bowel syndrome was diagnosed in patients with normal findings , but with abdominal pain relieved by defecation and at least two further symptoms featuring among the ‘ Manning criteria ’ . |
| 27 | The angles thus calculated for all frames are then used to produce the two rotational functions shown on the right of Figure 7.12 . |
| 28 | Edward II , however , gave a measure of active assistance to Louis X of France against Flanders in September 1315 , when he ordered two English admirals to sail towards the Flemish coast with their six ships , and issued a letter permitting Amaury de Craon , seneschal of Aquitaine , to serve Louis personally in Flanders . |
| 29 | He saw two German troopers spurring at the second Frenchman . |
| 30 | The two German leaders agreed on the Christmas re-opening in Dresden earlier this week . |