Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start the music and record one or two minutes to begin the all-important process of deep relaxation . |
| 2 | While the male of one of these species constructs the nest alone ( as in other weavers ) , in others the female also involves herself in this activity and in two cases receives the active assistance of additional apparently adult birds . |
| 3 | Pathological examination of the resected specimens in two cases showed the typical appearance of Dieulafoy 's lesion . |
| 4 | While there , he spent two hours outlining the new Japanese thinking to the Soviet president . |
| 5 | County workers travelled in less technological gritters , snow ploughs and snow buckets and spent two hours dragging the expensive machine back on to the road . |
| 6 | By insisting that the two groups have the same distribution of some extraneous variable(s) we may be introducing unreal constraints , e.g. smokers and non-smokers do not have the same age distribution in the population . |
| 7 | At a signal from Azar , the two contestants unhitched the front gate of the cage ; the two cock partridges strutted out . |
| 8 | In solid waste , 75% of which is still handled by local municipalities , two giants lead the private sector , Waste Management and Browning-Ferris . |
| 9 | This may suggest that the re-working of the bracteates and their loops , both together and separately was common and emphasises that contemporaneity need not be demonstrated by two objects having the same metal composition . |
| 10 | This traditional curtain-raiser to the horse trials season attracted a star-studded line-up , among them former world champion Ginny Leng , who was one of only two riders to take the direct route at the computer horse link V rails . |
| 11 | Two riders approached the small cottage of Mrs Barnes , the local midwife . |
| 12 | The precise disposition , organisation and arrangement of these two discourses constitutes the basic fabric of Nizan 's fictional technique . |
| 13 | So the two investments generate the same return if both PPP and the international Fisher effect hold , in which case exchange rate risk is unimportant . |
| 14 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 15 | In the future , if ever my old feelings about Mr Rochester began to return , I would only have to glance at the two pictures to see the great difference between us , and in this way common sense would destroy my foolish dreams . |
| 16 | The two pictures show the same flow at different instants , at which respectively an ‘ eruption ’ and an ‘ inrush ’ were occurring . |
| 17 | The two guards spotted the blue Ford Transit van pull up 20 yards from the 800ft tall Canary Tower , the showpiece of the development , at about 8pm . |
| 18 | ( b ) What two variables determine the average velocity of the molecules of an ideal gas ? |
| 19 | This approximation obviously extends to problems with more than two variables provided the objective function and constraints are separable , that is , they are sums of functions of individual variables , for example , . |
| 20 | Those two words emphasize the key importance of the technology and the ‘ receivers ’ . |
| 21 | This occurs when two words have the same vowel sounds in conjunction with different consonantal sounds : A stitch in time saves nine . |
| 22 | It is sometimes easier to hear that two words have the same pattern . |
| 23 | Two considerations point the other way . |
| 24 | ( b ) Lift the two lapels to show the green cambrium layer beneath . |
| 25 | In practice , with an electoral system like Britain 's , and with more than two parties dividing the popular vote , a government is elected by , and so represents , only the single largest minority of those who vote . |
| 26 | As foreseen under the peace agreement , officials of the two parties began the first meeting of their Joint Political and Military Commission , together with Soviet , US and Portuguese representatives , in Luanda on June 17 . |
| 27 | A conference held by the two parties discussed the general election which was due in mid-1992 and called for an " independent , national body " to oversee it . |
| 28 | Just two judges had the enviable task of testing the 49 Ciders and Perrys in the competition at the Cider Museum in Hereford . |
| 29 | The two companies paying the highest audit fees remain British Petroleum £7.4m ( v £7.2m ) and BTR £7m ( unchanged ) . |
| 30 | The surface curves in two directions to form the hyperbolic paraboloid , with a positive parabolic section in one diagonal of the rhombus and a negative parabola in the other . |