Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bitter weeping was heard from the two reeds that remained , and the king 's son thought , " I caused the death of that poor girl ; I broke off the flower and planted it in the garden of death . " |
| 2 | A football match was arranged between the two groups . |
| 3 | No endoscopic recurrence was diagnosed in the two patients with T0N1M1 tumours , but the died five and 10 months later from metastases . |
| 4 | The observations made so far may be summed up in terms of four historical phases throughout which Hellenic creativity was dominated by the two impulses . |
| 5 | The girl , identified only as Dominique K , was attacked by the two skinheads at her home . |
| 6 | Signs of Constantine 's new deal for the church were that the council petitioned and obtained from the emperor a degree of tax exemption for the sake of the church 's welfare for the poor , and that exile was imposed on the two bishops who withheld their signature to the creed and canons . |
| 7 | He was looking at the two Apaches . |
| 8 | Frequencies were then computed across contexts for each category in each observation and , for all adult-child interaction , a first-level comparison was made between the two settings of home and school , using the Z ratio of the difference between means . |
| 9 | The one fact which seems to emerge was that changes were taking place in British villas round about 360 and this was reflected in the two maps , figs. 6.1 and 6.2 , included in this 1969 study . |
| 10 | A Pakistan government spokesman confirmed on Nov. 11 that the talks had ended " with no forward movement " , saying that " the Indian side had introduced preconditions … [ that ] went beyond what was agreed between the two countries in June 1989 [ see p. 36736 ] " . |
| 11 | The deal , which was agreed by the two airlines in January after BA had pulled out of its original proposed $750 million link-up with USAir in December , confirms the strong negotiating position BA has always been in and puts its aim of becoming a global airline firmly back on course . |
| 12 | The deal , which was agreed by the two airlines in January after BA had pulled out of its original proposed $750 million link-up with USAir in December , confirms the strong negotiating position BA has always been in and puts its aim of becoming a global airline firmly back on course . |
| 13 | The histological scoring was performed by the two pathologists separately in order to assess reproducibility . |
| 14 | No agreement was reached between the two parties on this occasion , but discussions continued throughout 1924 and into 1925 . |
| 15 | The so-called Endeavour Accord , which provided for the immediate lifting of the blockade and for the restoration of communications , education , health and power services , was reached after the two sides agreed to set aside the independence question for further talks within the next eight weeks . |
| 16 | There was only a French text of the document , but it was initialled by the two ministers , and therefore involved a substantial degree of commitment on both their parts . |
| 17 | The motet was replaced by the two forms of anthem , the Mass by the Service . |
| 18 | No difference was found between the two groups with a lesion situated in the left hemisphere , but non-right handers , as a group , were significantly impaired on every test in comparison with right handers when the lesion was on the right side . |
| 19 | It is difficult , perhaps impossible , to establish exactly how much was spent on the two papers , Uhuru and the Nationalist , in the years between 1964 , when the Nationalist was launched , and 1972 , when it merged with the Standard to form the Daily News . |
| 20 | I believe that the spending levels that we are now seeing , through the new scheme that I announced in the summer , vindicate the judgment I made because the £17 million that was spent in the two years of the initial scheme represents an average spend of £8.5 million . |
| 21 | The killers apparently knew this and shot him while he was travelling between the two sites without a police escort . |
| 22 | He was staring at the two men at the nearby table . |
| 23 | One of my lasting impressions as an undergraduate studying at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s , dominated as it was by the Popperian conception of science and the quest for a Positive Economics , was of the great gulf that was fixed between the two worlds of social science and religious belief . |
| 24 | Alf Catholic , 21 , was charged with the two murders and one attempted murder following the weekend shootings in Kissimmee , Florida . |
| 25 | £500 was split between the two groups . |
| 26 | By 22 July , the date by which the military conspirators had hoped to be in control of the entire country , it was clear that the territory of Spain was split between the two camps ( see map on p. xv ) . |
| 27 | A stand-off agreement was struck between the two parties a couple of years ago but observers say the recent death of Savoy president Sir Hugh Wontner may have triggered a fresh attack . |
| 28 | A wheat supply protocol was signed between the two countries in November . |
| 29 | A bilateral tourist exchange agreement was signed by the two countries on Jan. 5 , 1990 , allowing tourist visas to be issued within 15 days of application . |
| 30 | A $600,000,000 trade agreement was signed by the two countries the previous month during a visit to Tehran by China 's Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade , Zheng Tuobin . |