Example sentences of "two [adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He flashed his security pass under the eyes of the two armed guards posted beside the exit door .
2 Within the pulse period of 102ms , the γ -emission forms a single broad peak , in contrast to the two narrow peaks seen in the other high-energy γ -ray pulsars .
3 The National Republic Convention ( NRC ) , the more right-wing of the two political parties created by the military government in 1990 , won 16 of the 30 state governorships and gained control of the assemblies in 13 states ; its opponent , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) won control of 16 assemblies , including those in three states — Lagos , Katsina and Cross River — where the NRC won the gubernatorial poll .
4 The Vatican in December 1989 ordered the closure in Recife on the east coast of two progressive seminaries founded by the former Archbishop of Olinda and Recife , the Most Rev. Helder Câmara .
5 Two strong themes run through the book .
6 Two strong furrows run across the back of the carapace of this crab , which is knobbly , and , on a fine scale , covered with minute pits .
7 The UK had no direct representation in Tripoli , although two British officials worked at the Italian embassy to represent British interests .
8 Two old friends met in the street .
9 The French government disclosed on July 5 that it had decorated Lt.-Col. Alain Mafart , one of the two French agents convicted for the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship , Rainbow Warrior , in Auckland harbour in 1985 [ see pp. 33852-55 ; 34565-68 ] .
10 But as they did so , they unknowingly broke the invisible beam linking two electronic eyes set in the surrounding trees .
11 The angles thus calculated for all frames are then used to produce the two rotational functions shown on the right of Figure 7.12 .
12 The two German leaders agreed on the Christmas re-opening in Dresden earlier this week .
13 The clash between Kuhn 's views , on the one hand , and those of Lakatos , and also Popper , on the other , has given rise to a debate concerning two contrasting positions associated with the terms ‘ rationalism ’ and ’ relativism ’ respectively .
14 The purpose of the excursion was to examine the relative influence of lithology , deformation and burial conditions on low-grade metamorphism in two contrasting terrains generated by the closure of the Iapetus Ocean in the Lower Palaeozoic .
15 He noted that there were two contrasting myths attached to the symbol : the myth of Einstein as the Brain and the myth of Einstein as the Human Being .
16 He suggested that there are two different approaches based upon the basic perceptions that the manager had of the workforce .
17 Thus , playing to the Germans ' appeal for order , these two brave Frenchmen secured for the trade a buffer in the form of the CIVC which took on the day-to-day unpleasantries of dealing with an alien administration .
18 The EuroGateway Project — the first of only two Scottish projects supported by the EC RECITE programme — has scored its first success .
19 It has been frequently noted that two separate streams run through the history of the development of African primary school curricula in the last fifty years of the colonial period .
20 In two separate attacks attributed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and the National Liberation Army ( ELN ) near the towns of Villavicencio , 75 km south-east of Bogotá , and Santander , some 300 km south-west , 14 police officers were killed and five more wounded .
21 However , on the IBM 370 , the fields are held in two separate accumulators specified by the instruction .
22 The Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Appeal , which is one of two official charities nominated by the 1991 IAAF ADT London Marathon , is appealing to clubs for support in raising funds through sponsorship .
23 Two additional patients seen by the recruiting centre refused to participate because they had restarted treatment with animal insulin and would not take human insulin again .
24 A title " Rodent control:rats and mice " must not be assigned a higher weight than " Rats in the European Economic Community " , although the first contains two additional terms linked to the sought term in a see also relationship .
25 In September 1990 a Japanese delegation visited North Korea [ see pp. 37714 ] The visit was a success , a communiqué was signed calling for negotiations aimed at the restoration of diplomatic relations , and two Japanese seamen detained in the North since 1983 were released in October [ see p. 37779 ] .
26 This is in a fine state of preservation and still retains two male figures carved in the tufa forming the head of the side parapets of the auditorium ( 147 and PLATE 19 ) .
27 They describe the historical development of consciousness in relation to material activity and mention two crucial stages marked by the division of mental and manual labour .
28 The stage is empty save for two cloaked FIGURES sprawled on the ground in the approximate positions last held by the dead SPIES .
29 In addition to this course students will take two one-term options selected from the following list : Early European Cinema ; From Eisenstein to Renoir ; Italian Cinema ; Neo-realism and its Modulations ; French Cinema ; The Nouvelle Vague and Contemporary Trends ; The New German Cinema ; Concepts and Film Style .
30 It was the last match for Underwood and Halliday and maybe others — and what about Jonathan Webb 's two personal records created during the match , or the potential for Championship records for Morris and Underwood ?
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