Example sentences of "of two [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospect of a radical overhaul of US banking legislation was confirmed on Feb. 5 when the US Treasury announced proposals including the abolition of two laws dating from the 1930s which were widely blamed for the fragmented character of US banking . |
| 2 | We may now compare the costs of two firms producing with the costs of one . |
| 3 | With efficient management , you can be one of two teams promoted at the end of the 14-game season . |
| 4 | This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ . |
| 5 | They comprised a great hall of two storeys open to the roof timbers , solar , storage accommodation and bedchambers . |
| 6 | Just a little later Mitchum caught sight of two faces peering through the window . |
| 7 | The collision of two continents leads to the eventual cessation of subduction , whereas other types of collision may cause a change in the location of the subduction zone . |
| 8 | On one occasion in Belfast , at a launch of two ships built for the Bombay Steam & Navigation Co , he used coconuts instead of champagne at the ceremony and made sure that the Indian Swastika — which symbolises good luck — was marked on the side of the vessels . |
| 9 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
| 10 | The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Weldon was the beneficiary of two memorials presented by the 401st Bombardment Group over 30 years apart . |
| 11 | No. 76 , in page 40 , line 42 , at end insert — ( 2 ) For a period of two years commencing from the first transfer date , a member ( whether elected or appointed ) or an employee of a local authority , shall not be eligible for appointment as chairman , but , after that time has elapsed , no such restriction shall apply . ' . |
| 12 | branching to one course of action out of two possibilities depending upon the result of a mathematical , textual or logical condition |
| 13 | The guitars go wibbly wibbly wibbly splang , Bruce goes ‘ Urg urg screeeeek ! ’ and ‘ Wasting Love ’ is a bold , ballady effort played with all the subtlety of two rhinos shagging in the back of a Mini Cooper . |
| 14 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 15 | The funeral of one of two firemen killed in the fire which destroyed a meat processing factory will be held this Friday . |
| 16 | This is the first of two volumes devoted to the library 's Netherlandish drawings ; the second will deal with Dutch drawings of the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 17 | The point F is one of two foci possessed by the ellipse . |
| 18 | Although emphasis was initially upon recognition of the variety of landscape features , sediments and structures that could be developed under periglacial conditions , the potential subsequently arose of developing a greater knowledge of phases of periglacial landscape development , and in Poland and other countries in Europe this emphasis was clearly evident in research in the 1960s and much of the research was reflected in Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1975 ) which was one of two books to derive from the earlier Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) . |
| 19 | Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol . |
| 20 | → Bi-amping is the use of two amplifiers to work upon the different frequency bands of a single signal . |
| 21 | There was a brief impression of two men stumbling down the track as though they had been hit in the leg , while the man with the pinned arm , having broken the arrow that held him , hurtled off in to the undergrowth . |
| 22 | A witness at the trial of two men accused of the murder of a police informer has claimed that one defendent drove the victim to a meeting with the other , who them killed him . |
| 23 | It was actually of two men smiling into the camera against a chunky city skyline . |
| 24 | Théodore was one of two candidates proposed by the parliament , the other being the conservative Marc Bazin who had been comprehensively defeated by Aristide in the December 1990 presidential elections [ see pp. 37911-12 ] . |