Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 2 | Between them the two major planks of the strategy had yielded £5,264,500 . |
| 3 | Pat was infinitely available to Alice , helping with painting and cleaning ; between them the two women accomplished miracles , dingy caves being transformed one after another to fresh and lively rooms . |
| 4 | These do not reflect activity from the eyes individually , but between them the two channels will record an eye movement in any direction . |
| 5 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 6 | He then joined his brother at the Brighton works of the London , Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1871 to 1875 , working under the direction of William Stroudley [ q.v. ] , after which the two brothers moved to the North British Railway works at Cowlairs and in 1882 to the neighbouring works at St Rollox of the Caledonian Railway , where Peter was appointed assistant locomotive engineer and works manager . |
| 7 | The plant had been criticized as being " in very poor condition " by an IAEA inspection in 1991 , after which the two oldest reactors had been shut down [ see pp. 38350-51 ] . |
| 8 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 9 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 10 | The smaller the change the longer is the time for which the two solutions remain close , but they never do so indefinitely . |
| 11 | In his Liber Revelationum , Book I , chapter 6 , he gives some account of his father 's character , and he relates stories concerning his grandfather Ailsi and his uncles , Jordan 's brothers , of whom the two eldest , Bernard and Nicholas , were scriptores in the royal chapel in the time of Henry I. Peter also mentions his kinship by marriage to Reginald de Dunstanvill , Earl of Cornwall ; whence it has been conjectured that Peter 's mother was a sister of the earl 's wife , Beatrice , daughter of William Fitz Richard of Cardinan , the most important of the local nobility . |
| 12 | They were carried on four pairs , of which the two middle ones were fixed , whereas to move sideways in a radial direction when going round a curve , though normally they were held in a straight line with the fixed wheels by a pair of springs in compression . |
| 13 | e.g. " As late as 1911 only 59% of Britain 's adult male population ( some eight million out of a total nearing forty one million ) had the vote , and there were seven different types of franchise , of which the two major ones related to ownership or occupation of land , or of any house defined as a separate dwelling . " |
| 14 | Menem visited Paraguay on Nov. 27-28 , 1989 , for talks with President Andrés Rodríguez , at the conclusion of which the two heads of state signed a joint declaration covering economic and hydroelectric co-operation and border integration . |
| 15 | In front of him the two men had separated , reacted to the shout , and then to the sight of the gun . |
| 16 | On the face of it the two seats should split evenly between the two big parties — North east to the Conservatives and South West to Labour . |
| 17 | Ahead , I could see the twin towers of the Severn Bridge , beneath which the two rivers meet before completing their journey to the sea . |
| 18 | Behind her the two seats were empty , a troublous reminder of where Eddie and Laura had sat side by side when the coach had first set off from Heathrow Airport … had first arrived at the eastern outskirts of Oxford . |
| 19 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 20 | The astonishing speed with which the two brother radicals developed their Pantisocratic scheme was testimony not only to the transforming effect they had on one another , but to the very weak foundations upon which the whole enterprise rested . |
| 21 | Secondly , the bitterness and resentment with which the two expressed themselves could not , in my view , have been simulated . |
| 22 | The critical values for χ 12 above which the two polymers will phase separate , calculated for various mixtures with , are shown in table 8.4 along with the corresponding differences in δ . |
| 23 | US West Inc , which last week was talking about the multimedia database system it is developing with Oracle Corp ( CI No 2,166 ) , is stepping up its commitment to infotainment by agreeing to pay $2,500m for a 25% stake in Time Warner Inc 's Time Warner Entertainment affiliate — in which Toshiba Corp and Japanese trader Itochu Corp each has a stake — to seal a deal under which the two companies will collaborate to develop electronic superhighways — full-service cable networks offering interactive programming , entertainment and information . |
| 24 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week announced an agreement with Intel Corp under which the two will develop a chip set designed specifically for the HP 700/RX family of Intel 80960 RISC processor-based X-Window System stations . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 26 | Ghana signed a communiqué with the transitional government of TOGO on Oct. 4 under which the two countries agreed to " promote close and mutually beneficial co-operation " ; land , sea and air borders were opened on Oct. 5 for the free movement of goods and persons . |
| 27 | On March 8 Ovlyakuli Khojakov Minister of Agriculture , announced an agricultural agreement with Iran under which the two countries agreed to exchange experts and students . |
| 28 | In the long opening mime section Bocca 's graceful arrogance was eloquently coupled to the desperate impatience to meet Nikiya ( Viviana Durante ) , and once dancing with her the two qualities sparked into a heady ardour . |
| 29 | Indeed , by incorporation into him the two have become one new humanity . |
| 30 | There is a touch of the actor in every good schoolmaster , but it must be doubted if there was ever a man in whom the two professions were so evenly balanced . |