Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No man has any reason to say that any two states belong to the same self unless he has a reason to believe them to be caused by the same body . |
| 2 | In the second place , even those people who have heard of the doctrine , and who accept it , do not , in far the greater number of cases , base their judgements that two states belong to the same self on a previous conviction that they are caused by the same body . |
| 3 | At least two reasons account for the latter . |
| 4 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |
| 5 | In class structure grammar ( see under grammar ) , most clauses have only one subject , but there are occasions where two subjects occur in the same clause . |
| 6 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 7 | The only way , in those circumstances , that relief might be obtained is to press the inspector of taxes to assess the vendor company under Sch A. But would that be self-defeating within two companies controlled by the same individual ? |
| 8 | The BBC , who did not wish to go live , will take recorded highlights , the two companies agreeing on the same commentators . |
| 9 | He noted , in his journal in October 1919 , that there had been an increase of 37 vagrants attending the institution as ‘ casuals ’ in the previous two weeks compared with the same period the previous year ; six of them were discharged soldiers . |
| 10 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 11 | There seems to be no sense in which the idea of the Commonwealth can be said to have developed from Indirect Rule , but the similarity of the language employed , and the fact that enthusiasts for one were usually enthusiasts for the other , would appear to suggest that the two ideas sprang from the same rich soil , composted over the years of imperial fact and imperial fancy . |
| 12 | In other words , we can make two pointers reference the same variable , or we can test whether or not two pointers point to the same variable . |
| 13 | Two lawnmowers going at the same time the neighbours must be annoyed . |
| 14 | Thirdly , material similarity , a relation referring to the degree to which two strings consist of the same characters . |
| 15 | Secondly , ordinal similarity , a relation referring to the degree in which characters in two strings occur in the same order . |
| 16 | When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing . |
| 17 | Let us determine now the mutual inductance between two coils wound on the same magnetic core ( Fig. 4.7(b) ) . |
| 18 | Would there be two bodies operating in the same field ? |
| 19 | Then , thinking of her own mother , she wondered how two sisters born of the same parents could be so different . |
| 20 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
| 21 | The reason the two items appeared on the same day is your Editor 's responsibility . |
| 22 | Two wyverns fell on the same night and after the Emperor 's death the aerial attacks gradually subsided and the siege settled down into a protracted stalemate . |
| 23 | We focused on the two newspapers owned by the same person , Rupert Murdoch , and which included the most rape reports — thirty-two in the Sun and seventy-two in the News of the World in which not one rape case in 1978 was covered by both newspapers . |
| 24 | The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family . |
| 25 | Like the case , some years ago , when two men died in the same way from similar stab wounds on the same day in the same street . |
| 26 | Two attributes come from the same domain of Political Parties . |
| 27 | Since visual field asymmetry and dichotic ear differences have both been claimed as indices of the same phenomenon — cerebral lateralisation of language — these two measures derived from the same set of subjects ought to correlate with each other . |
| 28 | To see what is at stake here , we can juxtapose this question with two others directed at the same problem . |
| 29 | ABA so that the calculation is correct and no two letters stand for the same digit . |
| 30 | In this calculation , I assumed that if two women worked in the same office and had the same surname ( provided it was not a very common one ) but different Christian names , then they were sisters . |