Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few seconds the two birds stood facing each other , chests fully extended ; then Handlebar 's bird flew at its rival with a new and sudden violence . |
| 2 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the period the two parties began to produce competing plans to superimpose an earnings-related pensions scheme on top of the inadequate flat rate system . |
| 4 | ‘ Gorbachev sends troops to Georgia ’ was The Times headline that day and the hotel manager greeted us with news that one of the two helicopters had crashed last Friday , leaving three people in hospital . |
| 5 | On the signing in Malabo in February 1990 of a 12,000 million pesetas ( approximately US$110 million ) co-operation plan with Equatorial Guinea , Luis Yañez , the Spanish Secretary of State for International Co-operation , declared that relations between the two countries had overcome earlier problems to enter a more friendly phase . |
| 6 | Their comments , based on eyewitness accounts of bombing raids , followed persistent reports of substantial Israeli military assistance to Ethiopia ; the two countries had renewed diplomatic relations in November 1989 [ see p. 37035 ] . |
| 7 | Although the two countries had resumed diplomatic relations in 1956 , the outstanding territorial issue had frozen bilateral relations to the extent that they had not even signed a peace treaty formally ending the Pacific War . |
| 8 | On July 30 it was reported that the two countries had agreed new commitments to reduce the trade imbalance in a second follow-up report to the Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks . |
| 9 | The two countries had established diplomatic relations in January 1992 [ see p. 38741 ] . |
| 10 | The two governments agreed to terminate all litigation before the municipal courts between the nationals of either country and the government of the other . |
| 11 | In the background all this time was the knowledge on both sides of the Atlantic that one or two airlines had adopted anonymous reporting systems which had brought to light the most important and hair-raising incidents , some of which could be eliminated without difficulty by altering certain operating practices . |
| 12 | The two studies quoted giving positive results together with another positive major study not quoted were all of cognitive-behavioural therapy , in which a collaborative directive approach is encouraged . |
| 13 | Two things appeared to affect this assessment independently . |
| 14 | The two leaders agreed to establish diplomatic relations , and to co-operate in transport links , including civil aviation and the construction of a highway from Termez ( near the border , north of Mazar-i-Sharif ) through Afghanistan to Karachi ( Pakistan ) which would give Uzbekistan an outlet to the sea . |
| 15 | The two leaders promised to improve bilateral ties and to strengthen the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) . |
| 16 | The two girls had become firm friends ; they seemed to have so much in common , apart from their age . |
| 17 | The two men had known each other since their school days . |
| 18 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 19 | Voice of Lebanon radio reported on Nov. 27 that the two sides had discussed several issues relating to domestic Lebanese affairs , bilateral ties , the future of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon , and the situation in the south . |
| 20 | At the third round of preliminary talks for normalizing relations between Japan and North Korea , held in Beijing on Dec. 15-17 , the two sides agreed to begin full normalization talks in Pyongyang , the North Korean capital , in January 1991 . |
| 21 | Syrian Arab Republic Radio reported that the two sides agreed to establish joint security and administrative committees . |
| 22 | The two sides undertook to respect each other 's sovereignty and territorial integrity and not to assert any territorial claims against each other in the future . |
| 23 | The two women questioned had little knowledge and no inclination to learn about nablabs . |
| 24 | Two incidents had drawn public attention to the Directorate in October : the first on Oct. 9 concerned an armed relative of Khasbulatov who was arrested by the police but released without charge ; the second was a shooting incident on Oct. 20 , involving police and three members of the Directorate . |