Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the two activities have no obvious relationship . |
| 2 | Some explanation is perhaps needed for the fact that the same phrases also sound more normal in ( 18 ) than the corresponding phrases in ( 15 ) : ( 18 ) the heir is a lawful one her cousin is a distant one Possibly we should accept that , even when used in a context of heirs and cousins respectively , these two adjectives occupy an intermediate position in the sense that they can be construed either way without any significant difference in the non-linguistic phenomena that can be designated thereby . |
| 3 | Start the music and record one or two minutes to begin the all-important process of deep relaxation . |
| 4 | While the male of one of these species constructs the nest alone ( as in other weavers ) , in others the female also involves herself in this activity and in two cases receives the active assistance of additional apparently adult birds . |
| 5 | Pathological examination of the resected specimens in two cases showed the typical appearance of Dieulafoy 's lesion . |
| 6 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |
| 7 | While there , he spent two hours outlining the new Japanese thinking to the Soviet president . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 10 | Fire crews spent more than two hours tackling a severe blaze in an empty Middlesbrough house yesterday . |
| 11 | If the two contracts have an equal maturity , then r L = r S and the spread basis becomes F L - F s = ( S L - DsubL ; - S s + D s ) ( 1 + r ) . |
| 12 | A few years ago I and my two sons made an amazing discovery — a discovery we shared with a few of our colleagues here . |
| 13 | Booth , who had played in a reserve match 24 hours earlier to prove his fitness , scored with two headers to conclude a remarkable night . |
| 14 | These two groups shared no common thing except that they were all young boys . |
| 15 | On Dec. 18 the two groups ratified a 12-point peace plan negotiated through the mediation of the National Council of Churches in Kenya . |
| 16 | By insisting that the two groups have the same distribution of some extraneous variable(s) we may be introducing unreal constraints , e.g. smokers and non-smokers do not have the same age distribution in the population . |
| 17 | Although the Fisher/Clark thesis does not entail the post-industrial argument , the two accounts offer a similar explanation for shifts in patterns of demand . |
| 18 | April 20 : statement by Popov and Yugoslavian Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar in Sofia that the two states had no territorial claims in the Balkans . |
| 19 | Soviet-Egyptian relations remained close even after the death of Nasser in 1970 , and the following year , under his successor Anwar Sadat , the two states concluded a fifteen-year friendship treaty , the first of its kind to be made between the USSR and an Arab government . |
| 20 | when any two states have a common descendant goal , so choosing a child which is not optimal does not matter too much . |
| 21 | At a signal from Azar , the two contestants unhitched the front gate of the cage ; the two cock partridges strutted out . |
| 22 | In solid waste , 75% of which is still handled by local municipalities , two giants lead the private sector , Waste Management and Browning-Ferris . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This traditional curtain-raiser to the horse trials season attracted a star-studded line-up , among them former world champion Ginny Leng , who was one of only two riders to take the direct route at the computer horse link V rails . |
| 25 | Two riders approached the small cottage of Mrs Barnes , the local midwife . |
| 26 | I have , perhaps rashly , elsewhere published the baldly provocative claim that ‘ postmodernism is only heterosexuals catching up with camp ’ and I think the relationship between the two discourses remains a fruitful area for further study . |
| 27 | The precise disposition , organisation and arrangement of these two discourses constitutes the basic fabric of Nizan 's fictional technique . |
| 28 | So the two investments generate the same return if both PPP and the international Fisher effect hold , in which case exchange rate risk is unimportant . |
| 29 | He survived an outstanding Pathfinder tour as a group captain , was snatched by the AOC No 6 Group to become his SASO and got a " thick " un " hut chucked it all ill to drop two ranks to command No 617 Squadron , wherein he finished the war . |
| 30 | So far I have discussed two attempts to distinguish the different types of political system in terms of an evolutionary scheme ; one of them ( that of Spencer ) being so abstract as to have little value in establishing a precise historical sequence , while the other ( that of Marx ) possesses less of an evolutionary character than may at first sight appear and leaves unsolved many problems in the construction of an adequate typology of precapitalist and capitalist societies . |