Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
| 2 | Two projects commissioned by the European Commission — the competitiveness of the Community 's ‘ tradeable service sector ’ relative to Japan and the USA , and the ‘ identification of the technical devices that will lead to new service activities in the next 10-15 years and the role which these new services might play in European society ’ — were completed in 1985 . |
| 3 | In 1775 , for instance , there were extremely elaborate entries into each other 's capitals by the Russian and Turkish ambassadors charged with the ratification of the peace-treaty between the two states signed in the previous year . |
| 4 | Surrounded by snow and dressed in concert clothes , the two musicians played for a German television crew and a small audience of artists while Serb snipers perched only 150 yards away at the front line took pot shots . |
| 5 | There are two bells hung from a stout beam , thought to be from the old church , and eight tubular bells given in 1888 . |
| 6 | The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period . |
| 7 | Parliament is to be taken to have intended that the difficulties such a wide ambit may create will be sufficiently overcome by two safeguards built into the statutory scheme . |
| 8 | adult life was spent in South Africa , and erm I found a couple of years ago two books written by a remarkable while English-speaking South African called Donald Woods , who was a newspaper editor , who befriended and then championed a remarkable young black South African called Steve Beeko , who was killed in police detention . |
| 9 | The first two books produced by the new partnership of WWF with IIED and Earthscan Publications , dealing with major environmental questions , have just been published . |
| 10 | It was a thick , misty day , but when the two brothers got beyond the small market town of Thame , the fog gave way to bright sunshine . |
| 11 | For example , the psychological dilemmas of women 's two roles discussed in the late 1950s by Myrdal and Klein are said by them to affect only the minority of educated middle-class women . |
| 12 | This stretch is attractive at first , with Christ Church Meadow on one side and a cricket pitch on the other , but as it approaches the larger river the Cherwell divides into two channels separated by a flat overgrown island , deserted except for a row of college boathouses . |
| 13 | Neglected , possibly — there are only two recordings listed in The Classical Catalogue , and Alan Walker does not even mention the piece in his standard biography ( Faber : 1989 ) . |
| 14 | Police believe the two cars collided at a closing speed approaching a hundred miles an hour . |
| 15 | was one of two winners presented with a beautiful cut-glass bowl by TV personality Anna Souby . |
| 16 | Garling entered a total of sixteen drawings for the competition , omitting the block plan , but showing the two offices separated by a wide street . |
| 17 | ONE of two teenagers killed in a stolen car when it crashed into a tree in west Belfast will be buried on Saturday . |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied the launch last week of its first two servers built around the 7100 superscalar version of the Precision Architecture RISC with the latest release of its HP-UX Unix , HP-UX 9.0 . |
| 19 | Nevertheless the two parties collided in the dark antechambers of the Palace . |
| 20 | It had originally been intended to include the Independent Women 's Union , which had campaigned jointly with the Green Party , but the two parties split after the Independent Women 's Union unsuccessfully demanded a larger share of the eight seats the list had won . |
| 21 | Two mice immunised with the synthetic peptide conjugate showed serum titres to whole gliadin of 1:6400 and 1:12800 compared with a titre of 1:800 for a non-immunised mouse . |
| 22 | The only way , in those circumstances , that relief might be obtained is to press the inspector of taxes to assess the vendor company under Sch A. But would that be self-defeating within two companies controlled by the same individual ? |
| 23 | At Vladivostok , the station which rose on Nicholas 's foundation stone was a baleful prison-like building with two blocks linked by a single-storey entrance range . |
| 24 | Moreover , there are no counter-examples ; there are no limbs which start with two elements followed by a single one . |
| 25 | In fact , when metals or ceramics are prepared in single-crystal form , even the common materials such as iron , aluminium , alumina and rock salt — to name only a few — are anisotropic and so not adequately described by a single modulus such as Young 's modulus or even the two moduli required for an isotropic material . |
| 26 | A coroner has recorded an accident verdict on a nine year old boy who was killed when two chair-lifts collided at a Californian ski resort . |
| 27 | Amnisos ( Plate 5 ) appears to have had two harbours separated by a rocky promontory which was probably the heart of the town . |
| 28 | Although the two countries agreed to an unprecedented meeting of their Premiers in September , the negotiations quickly assumed a familiar pattern with each side seeming to make offers which it knew that the other would reject . |
| 29 | Second was the frontier agreement between the two countries signed at the 1975 OPEC summit in Algiers . |
| 30 | Whereas the way now seems clear for development at Colt Hill between now and 1995/96 , despite the lack of schools capacity , the two sites owned by the Regional Council , which the Local Plan will reaffirm for housing development ( viz. East Braehead and Listloaning ) , are to be denied until after 1995 ( well after the projected survival of the Regional Council — thereby constraining the prospect of capitalising on the full value of these assets ) . |