Example sentences of "two [noun pl] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Occasionally overlap may have the opposite effect due to the ‘ falling between two stools ’ phenomenon , two operators at the same level or at different levels may each assume that the other has taken a particular action which they both know is required . |
| 3 | For example , in the study of older people in Aberdeen , younger ( 60–74 ) middle-class men and older ( 75+ ) working-class women were the two groups at the extreme ends of the income distribution . |
| 4 | This is a good song because it not only has actions but can also be sung by two groups at the same time . |
| 5 | Homesplan : Permission is being sought to build two houses at the former St Stephen 's vicarage in Reservoir Road , Prenton . |
| 6 | It was strange to be filling in the two forms at the same time . |
| 7 | They spent £100 on recording the two songs at the tiny Billiard Room studio , which is housed in a garage connected to a large house in a residential part of Leeds . |
| 8 | United , leading 3-0 at the time , conceded two goals at the final whistle . |
| 9 | Two subjects at the same level in the hierarchy ( for example , both subdivisions of the same parent or superordinate subject ) are said to be coordinate . |
| 10 | Death by soap Those naughty TV people have upset Sharon Griffiths ( Echo March 24 ) by having football on two channels at the same time . |
| 11 | As expected ( UX No 393 ) , Data General Corp last week rolled out eight-way , high-end versions of its Motorola Inc 88000 RISC-based symmetric multi-processing AViiON servers , plus two models at the low end . |
| 12 | The case had taken two weeks at the Old Bailey , the first devoted to legal argument before the jury was sworn . |
| 13 | In conversation at Corry , Johnson heard the stories he longed for — of men seeing visions , of examples of ‘ second sight ’ on Skye ; Mrs Mackinnon 's father had once met some women who , while working in a field , heard ghostly voices , signifying imminent death ; he later met two funerals at the predicted place . |
| 14 | Mr Endara , looking drawn from a 16-day-hunger strike in protest at the government refusal to recognise his victory in May 's annulled election , was unharmed but two aides at the Liberal Party office , which serves as the opposition coalition headquarters , were arrested . |
| 15 | Nobody can be in two places at the same time . |
| 16 | You see , ladies and gentlemen , whatever happens in life , no person can ever be in two places at the same time , for the laws of the Universe forbid it . |
| 17 | You do n't mention him , except to say that he was a biologist and that he went to England to work for two years at the chemical weapons experimental establishment at Porton Down . |
| 18 | REPUBLIC of Ireland defender Mick McCarthy took charge of Millwall yesterday when former Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch resigned after two years at the Second Division club . |
| 19 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 20 | James Beveridge , 36 , unemployed , of no settled address , was jailed for two years at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday after admitting making a hoax bomb call to Gatwick airport . |
| 21 | I was going to say as long as you do n't both have two days at the same time . |
| 22 | Seeing there were only two seats at the small table , she plumped down on my lap . |
| 23 | Its impact can be compared to the way in which the Tories in Scotland managed to turn a predicted disaster into an additional two seats at the last UK elections . |
| 24 | IF Gidon Saks has been in the last year the bovver boy of Scottish Opera , singing splendidly but speaking out of turn , he has surely redeemed himself this week directing the RSAMD Opera Class in two productions at the New Athenaeum . |
| 25 | This could be described as a hybrid Bill and , in a sense , we are considering two questions at the same time . |
| 26 | It 's very difficult to do er two things at the same time . |
| 27 | By a horizontal merger we mean the union of two firms at the same production stage in the same industry , for example the merger of two steel producers or two motor car manufacturers . |
| 28 | She took only 16 , about two pounds at the black market rate . |
| 29 | Those are the three chords for the chorus , but the melody and harmony represent 4ths on the first two strings at the fifth fret , third fret and then open . |
| 30 | Indeed , the savagery of the two figures at the right-hand side of the painting ( which is accentuated by the lack of expression in the faces of the other figures ) would justify its classification as one of the most passionate products of twentieth-century Expressionism . |