Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 2 | So far I have discussed two attempts to distinguish the different types of political system in terms of an evolutionary scheme ; one of them ( that of Spencer ) being so abstract as to have little value in establishing a precise historical sequence , while the other ( that of Marx ) possesses less of an evolutionary character than may at first sight appear and leaves unsolved many problems in the construction of an adequate typology of precapitalist and capitalist societies . |
| 3 | The first two illustrations show the normal appearances of the male and female external genitalia , the male being uncircumcised . |
| 4 | During the following two months came the first reports of Baghdad 's retaliation at the frontier town of Halabjah , in PUK territory , where aircraft were said to have dropped bombs containing poison gas . |
| 5 | In 1861 , as the result of the retirement of ( Sir ) John Kincaid [ q.v. ] he became , with his younger colleague Alexander Redgrave , one of two inspectors covering the British Isles . |
| 6 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 7 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 8 | ‘ Let them leave it another two weeks to make the two months , ’ he advised . |
| 9 | It may be necessary to have two organisations to separate the charitable activities from the non-charitable , but even this need not be costly . |
| 10 | Soon after the explosion the PLO headquarters in Tunis sent two officials to assist the Greek authorities with their investigations . |
| 11 | Two imponderables worried the British policy-makers : an American return to isolationism , and Soviet emulation of Tsarist imperialism . |
| 12 | After careful consideration of the complaints , I have decided that section 43 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 should be implemented and that the trade should be allowed two years to make the necessary changes . |
| 13 | Now version 1.2 introduces Mode 3 or ‘ loosely coupled multiprocessing ’ where the two machines support the same users and co-operatively run the same applications . |
| 14 | If space and time were properties of things in themselves , he argued , then if two things had the same properties , there would be no means of telling them apart , and Leibniz 's " principle of indiscernibles " would hold true . |
| 15 | Two things gave the Christian forces in Spain superiority over their Moslem foes : the weight of their armour and horses , and their possession of massive siege engines . |
| 16 | They needed two tables to accommodate the ten children . |
| 17 | We will now consider two slightly more sophisticated types of statistical comparison : an examination of the ‘ incidence-outcidence ’ relationship , and a more valid comparison of the two surveys using the adjusted figures for those agencies which were involved in both surveys . |
| 18 | We will adopt only two terms to describe the major functions of language and emphasise that this division is an analytic convenience . |
| 19 | From an examination of global hypsometry Wegener had noted the concentration of large areas of the Earth 's surface around two levels representing the continental platforms and the ocean basins . |
| 20 | One patient had stones cleared at a third stage , two patients had the remaining fragments removed at cholecystoscopy , and one patient by percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 21 | Directly below the blowhole are twin valves which separate and direct the incoming air into two streams to supply the two lungs . |
| 22 | Although all the endoscopic examinations were performed by two endoscopists using the same criteria , there is still the possibility that observer bias was present . |
| 23 | During their holidays the two men investigated the glacial deposits and Old Red Sandstone of Caithness , Orkney , and Shetland , publishing papers ( 1879–84 ) for which both received awards from the Geological Society . |
| 24 | The two modes have the same symmetries as the two derived from the internally symmetric PH 3 stretches , but they involve quite different types of motion . |
| 25 | Eventually these advantages were to tell against England in the war , but in its early phases such disparity was of less account , and the ability of the two kings to mobilize the financial resources of their realms and to command the support of the nobility was to be of greater consequence . |
| 26 | In the morning the two sides shared the four Foursomes matches but therein hides a tale of powerful enough to displace Neighbours at the top of the TV ratings . |
| 27 | The three-times Wimbledon champion is paying more than £8 million for two dealerships selling the luxury saloons and sports cars built by the German marque . |
| 28 | The Sheriff and coroner came to the village and held the Inquisicio Post Mortem but they found nothing except that two travellers fitting the dead persons ’ descriptions had passed through the village earlier in the day . ’ |
| 29 | The last two examples give the differential equations of commonly used descriptive models of polymer behaviour in which a Hookean spring and a Newtonian viscous element are coupled either in series ( Maxwell ) or in parallel ( Kelvin-Voigt ) . |
| 30 | For example , the first two chapters summarise the familiar subjects of EC social policy and programmes ; disappointingly , ‘ social Europe ’ is mostly concerned with employment affairs . |