Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pathological examination of the resected specimens in two cases showed the typical appearance of Dieulafoy 's lesion . |
| 2 | At a signal from Azar , the two contestants unhitched the front gate of the cage ; the two cock partridges strutted out . |
| 3 | Two riders approached the small cottage of Mrs Barnes , the local midwife . |
| 4 | During the following two months came the first reports of Baghdad 's retaliation at the frontier town of Halabjah , in PUK territory , where aircraft were said to have dropped bombs containing poison gas . |
| 5 | The two guards spotted the blue Ford Transit van pull up 20 yards from the 800ft tall Canary Tower , the showpiece of the development , at about 8pm . |
| 6 | This approximation obviously extends to problems with more than two variables provided the objective function and constraints are separable , that is , they are sums of functions of individual variables , for example , . |
| 7 | As foreseen under the peace agreement , officials of the two parties began the first meeting of their Joint Political and Military Commission , together with Soviet , US and Portuguese representatives , in Luanda on June 17 . |
| 8 | A conference held by the two parties discussed the general election which was due in mid-1992 and called for an " independent , national body " to oversee it . |
| 9 | Just two judges had the enviable task of testing the 49 Ciders and Perrys in the competition at the Cider Museum in Hereford . |
| 10 | Rude , but true , because not for another two decades did the Scottish capital get around to paying for proper effluent disposal into the River Forth . |
| 11 | In addition , Atkinson and Egeth ( 1973 ) found that responses were faster for the left visual field on a matching task in which subjects had to indicate whether or not two lines showed the same orientation . |
| 12 | The two joyriders abandoned the stolen car and ran off . |
| 13 | The two joyriders abandoned the stolen car and ran off . |
| 14 | Two imponderables worried the British policy-makers : an American return to isolationism , and Soviet emulation of Tsarist imperialism . |
| 15 | ‘ The fact that Business Post achieved the award within two years highlighted the high value management have placed on training and staff development in both the company and the franchises . |
| 16 | If space and time were properties of things in themselves , he argued , then if two things had the same properties , there would be no means of telling them apart , and Leibniz 's " principle of indiscernibles " would hold true . |
| 17 | Two things happened the next day . |
| 18 | Two things gave the Christian forces in Spain superiority over their Moslem foes : the weight of their armour and horses , and their possession of massive siege engines . |
| 19 | In the event the first two centres demonstrated the dual approach to much advisory work in that one was set up by a local authority ( in Lambeth ) and one by voluntary bodies ( in South Kensington ) . |
| 20 | Taken together , the two quarters showed the weakest rate of growth for a six-month period since March 1972 . |
| 21 | According to a report on Arab Republic of Egypt Radio , the two presidents reviewed the Middle East peace talks and other " Arab issues and events " . |
| 22 | One patient had stones cleared at a third stage , two patients had the remaining fragments removed at cholecystoscopy , and one patient by percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 23 | Two attackers entered the British base and had set detonators on the bombs before they were discovered by a 64-year-old German maintenance worker . |
| 24 | than to decide that the following two sentences had the same meaning : |
| 25 | The snub came against a background of smiles as the two leaders signed the first treaty between Britain and Russia since 1766 . |
| 26 | During their holidays the two men investigated the glacial deposits and Old Red Sandstone of Caithness , Orkney , and Shetland , publishing papers ( 1879–84 ) for which both received awards from the Geological Society . |
| 27 | The two men shared the same business address in Essex Street , and were joint founders of a number of periodicals , including the Critic and the Field . |
| 28 | These two men did the same sort of job . |
| 29 | Accompanied by rolls of the drum , the two showgirls used the whole floor to tumble — running , somersaulting , back-flipping — while the whip cracked threateningly around their ankles . |
| 30 | Emma and Roberta , two ten-year-olds devised the following advertisement , which , along with several others , were on prominent display when candidates visited the school . |