Example sentences of "[art] two [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alternative had been revealed to me ; with magnificent hardihood , I had ventured into the Other Side ; was I to suffer the fate of the two Dutch explorers ? |
| 2 | The biggest stars of the Portfolio by reason of the size of the holdings were the two Dutch publishers , Wolters Kluwer and Elsevier , which advanced handsomely by 59% and 36% respectively . |
| 3 | Honda immediately withdrew the two affected models — the HR-EL 171 and 172 and has contacted all its 4,500 owners warning them not to use the machine until a solution is found . |
| 4 | But I 've put the first hot foments on the two affected parts , ’ I explained . |
| 5 | In the days which followed the coup attempt , as police and Army units concentrated upon laying seige to the two occupied buildings , there was widespread violence and looting within Port of Spain . |
| 6 | He queued miserably outside the nearer of the two occupied lavatories for five minutes until it was vacated by a depressed-looking oriental , washed and shaved unhappily in cold water , put on his ridiculous uniform and ran down to breakfast . |
| 7 | I gagged and glanced at the two bald-pated twins : they did n't seem so terrible now but rather pathetic . |
| 8 | ( The TRAGEDIANS are in costume ( from the mime ) : A King with crown , ALFRED as Queen , the Poisoner and the two Cloaked figures . |
| 9 | The King — ( He pushes forward the POISONER/KING tormented by guilt — haunted by fear — decides to despatch his nephew to England — and entrusts his undertaking to two smiling accomplices — friends — courtiers — to two spies — ( He has swung round to bring together the POISONER/KING and the two cloaked TRAGEDIANS ; the latter kneel and accept a scroll from the KING. ) — giving them a letter to present to the English court ! |
| 10 | The two broad differences between accruals and cash accounting are the calculation of income and capital and the accruing of receipts and payments . |
| 11 | One can thus see gains and losses in the two broad approaches to the study of literature described by Welch ( 1987 ) . |
| 12 | The two broad movements which had won the June 1990 elections , Civic Forum in the Czech Lands and Public against Violence in Slovakia , had both split into competing parties , which , apart from Klaus 's Civic Democratic Party , generally failed to win the minimum of 5 per cent of votes in either part of the country needed to gain representation . |
| 13 | Second , the two broad types of research focused on different age-groups . |
| 14 | The two broad categories could be considered as rational approaches , often called rational/economic approaches , and political approaches . |
| 15 | The two broad categories of plants designated C 3 and C 4 differ in the biochemical pathways through which they fix carbon dioxide in photosynthesis and so differ in the degree to which they benefit from increased carbon dioxide . |
| 16 | In analysing the regulatory system it is probably useful to divide the concept of investor protection into the two broad categorisations as used by Gower — honesty and competence . |
| 17 | Where things have gone wrong the two typical queries are : ‘ My fish are ill/dying/dead/refusing to eat ’ and ‘ My fish are killing each other ’ , and many of these I find very distressing , as they are usually the result of the hobbyist having failed to do his or her ‘ homework ’ before setting up their tank or buying a particular species . |
| 18 | There was silence for a moment , punctuated only by the grunts and wheezes of the two ancient dames , until Gertrude said : |
| 19 | " Antiquity " for philological purposes was conceived primarily as the two ancient languages and the literature written in them ; and its " study " was , generally speaking , the province of learned individuals concerned , above all , with the restoration and exegesis of the ancient texts . |
| 20 | Start inland with Pompeii and Herculaneum , the two ancient cities buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 . |
| 21 | It represented the tenure after 1063 of the two ancient duchies of Gascony and Guyenne ( the Gallicized form of ‘ Aquitaine ’ ) by one ruler . |
| 22 | The annual rowing contest between the two ancient universities was a great London event with many ordinary families taking sides and wearing favours but it was hardly a matter of ‘ national ’ concern until the BBC included the Boat Race in the select band of truly British events . |
| 23 | Although the two external pockets are perfectly adequate , the absence of an internal pocket is noticeable , especially in a fashion garment when it 's preferable to keep wallet , chequebook and bank cards inside . |
| 24 | The two elderly Americans who squeezed past her chair ( 'Hey Harry , have you signed the bill ? ' ) knew who she was . |
| 25 | Marie turned , hearing noises behind her , then broke into a smile , bowing to the two elderly gentlemen who were passing in the corridor . |
| 26 | In all , the two full-time courses in the five centres catered for just over 1,300 students in 1980 . |
| 27 | The two superb features of Chartres are the remarkable coloured glass ( 457 ) and the exterior sculpture . |
| 28 | From the two wounded men Curtis had the full story of what had happened , but of the Prophet there was no sign . |
| 29 | He was , par excellence , both Pole and European , looking forward eagerly to the day of the creation of a united Europe — to him the ‘ motherland of motherlands ’ — free from the control of or undue influence from the two super powers . |
| 30 | By that time I had made drinking friends in the Hotel Cabo de Hornos with a couple of young American teachers down from Ecuador who had long wanted to visit the Towers of Paine , the very spot where — geologists had written — the two tectonic plates in which I was interested had come together . |