Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 2 | Competition on the Leith-Newcastle-Hull route become particularly fierce as other companies tried to break the monopoly and prices for Leith to Hull around 1874 were as low as two shillings for the single journey . |
| 3 | Two of the reasons for this reputation came at the first two majors of the 1986 season — the US Masters and US Open . |
| 4 | The CDS , which is more right wing than the PSD , has two deputies in the Regional Parliament . |
| 5 | The curtain material is lovely , and there are two sofas in the sitting area — one red , which is also a comfy sofabed and one blue , which matches an armchair . |
| 6 | Other effective examples of such work are Esther Fuch 's two essays in the same volume , Feminist Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship , in which Furman 's essay appears . |
| 7 | The main building has a dining-room , kitchen , TV-lounge and reading-room on the ground floor , and a lecture theatre , two seminar rooms , bursar 's flat and two toilets on the first floor . |
| 8 | On the murder of the human rights lawyer , Griffiths Mxenge , in 1981 , the report noted that Nofomela 's statements were substantially corroborated by those of two co-members of the same unit , Captain Dirk Coetzee and Mr David Tshikalanga . |
| 9 | It was suspected that Alexander Peden was sheltering at Priesthill and Claverhouse hoped to ‘ catch two birds with the one stone ’ . |
| 10 | Two researchers at the prestigious Salk institute in San Diego , California have proposed an alternative theory : that the Spanish oil syndrome is a violent auto-immune disease ( that is , the body attacks itself ) triggered by an elusive bacterium called Mycoplasma pneumoniae . |
| 11 | Last December , however , he read a similar report from two researchers in the British Journal of Industrial Medicine . |
| 12 | Towards the date for closure of Banstead , in mid-1986 , two researchers from the national offices of MIND carried out a brief study of the closure process . |
| 13 | Our watch tells us we are about two minutes off the half-way point , which does n't coincide with any particular feature . |
| 14 | — MIDDLESBROUGH and Cleveland 's Kerry Matthew knocked two minutes off the intermediate girls 3,000 metre record but still finished outside the English Schools qualifying time . |
| 15 | The solemnly ticking grandfather clock by the door said two minutes to the half hour when Charles heard the Bishop approaching . |
| 16 | But , within two minutes of the second chance , Kanchelskis had scored his outstanding goal and the championship was back within United 's grasp . |
| 17 | Only in the first two minutes of the third round did we see Eubank looking anything like his best performances against Michael Watson and Nigel Benn . |
| 18 | Two minutes into the second half Elwood 's drop goal reinforced Ireland 's victory push and within minutes the same player was on target with a penalty to open up a six point gap . |
| 19 | Ballymoney got the game back on levels terms just two minutes into the second half when an accurate throughball from Michael Neill allowed Willie McNeill to race clear and neatly tuck the ball into the bottom corner of the Cookstown net . |
| 20 | He stretched the lead two minutes into the second half with his fourth kick . |
| 21 | Two minutes into the second half , Nigel Mott repeated his move and his cross shot which brought a goal in the first half , but the ball ran just wide . |
| 22 | After Richard Eaton had cancelled out a second minute opener from Kenny Morris on 20 minutes , John Stephens shot Annadale into the lead with a superb finish to two minutes into the second period . |
| 23 | We waited for two minutes before the combined strength of thirty-five pounds of EP-12 plastic explosive tore the car apart . |
| 24 | His playing partner , someone called Arnold Palmer , arrived only two minutes before the appointed time with a a veteran 's aplomb . |
| 25 | S. Willis recorded 1–7–25 , an improvement of two minutes from the previous week . |
| 26 | First they equalised in injury time , when Joseph tripped Johnson to concede a penalty , then they scored twice in two minutes in the first period of extra-time to win 3-1 . |
| 27 | In fact this solution reduces to either of the two cases of the degenerate Ferrari-Ibañez solution in the limit as which is the limit as the polarization of the approaching waves become aligned . |
| 28 | Onset of labour was spontaneous except in two cases in the regulated group , in which induction was performed for prolonged rupture of membranes . |
| 29 | It is rarely inherited , and there are rarely two cases in the same family . |
| 30 | Suppression of labour was attempted with ritodrine in four cases in the regulated group and two cases in the random group ; only one mother in each group received steroids antenatally . |