Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there , he spent two hours outlining the new Japanese thinking to the Soviet president . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fire crews spent more than two hours tackling a severe blaze in an empty Middlesbrough house yesterday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although this title is not very appropriate , since Hilton never explicitly develops the metaphor , it nevertheless presents a view of the two books treating an overall development of an inner spiritual life . |
| 6 | TWO brothers running a second-hand car business had ‘ clocked ’ vehicles , Warrington Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 7 | Susannah Herbert meets two candidates putting a brave face on the prospect of certain defeat |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The two companies paying the highest audit fees remain British Petroleum £7.4m ( v £7.2m ) and BTR £7m ( unchanged ) . |
| 10 | These are issues which have been the subject of research and discussion in the last two decades reflecting the growing awareness of the existence of an unmet need for legal assistance with problems and the development of law centres and other agencies to meet it . |
| 11 | A visit to Tunis by President Mitterrand of France on July 11 was regarded as a gesture towards repairing relations between the two countries following the popular feeling in Tunisia against the anti-Iraq coalition during the Gulf war . |
| 12 | The visit marked the improvement in relations between the two countries following the 1988 ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq war [ see p. 36171 ] . |
| 13 | She said she saw the two defendants tormenting an elderly woman by prodding her from behind . |
| 14 | To stabilise the position of the tube , two balloons surrounding the anal canal were inflated ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ No , that 's actually two guitars doing the same part , but very tight and panned left and right . |
| 16 | Electrabel describes last year 's performance of the Belgian nuclear park as ‘ excellent ’ with the two plants achieving a high utilisation factor of 86% . |
| 17 | A particularly favoured combination is to have two detachments supporting a main body of halberdiers , one of hand gunners and another of swordsmen . |
| 18 | The initial contract will probably be for two years replacing the current pilot service . |
| 19 | At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon . |
| 20 | Just about all the first team squad on call for tomorrow … two problems facing the new manager Les Robinson is doubtful with a back injury … and skipper Jim Magilton is fighting for fitness after taking a knock in the Ireland game |
| 21 | Or whether mutually to reinforce their ability to perceive and understand this city — two viewpoints yielding a stereoscopic perspective . |
| 22 | I was expecting the usual French style of service , with an ice-bucket and a carafe of chilled water , and two glasses containing a small amount of Pernod at the bottom . |
| 23 | A representation of the Three Living and the Three Dead in both volumes is strikingly similar , and it is known that Amadeus , count of Savoy , bought two panels depicting the same subject when he was in England in 1302–3 . |
| 24 | Geraci looked warily at the folder Zen was holding up , his eyebrows working away like two caterpillars doing a mating dance . |
| 25 | However , in terms of formulating what happens next ( as required by a continuation study ) , the constraint is soft in that it only raises both the probability of the two characters playing the same role in an elaborated representation . |
| 26 | The English legal profession , therefore , is in effect split into two halves offering a complementary service . |
| 27 | Most of the fen drains for most of the time are somewhere in between these two extremes making the whole business a little undecided . |
| 28 | It seems to follow that just as the notion of the meaning of a single sentence is indeterminate , so the notion of two sentences having the same meaning is indeterminate . |
| 29 | They snatched two bags containing a large amount of cash and ran off to a waiting a white Vauxhall Nova GTE , registration number F235 BKM . |
| 30 | They were walking Patrick Lundy down Charing Cross Road , the two men supporting the younger man , who was ashen-faced and shivering . |