Example sentences of "[adv prt] of two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This engineering work was the laying in of two cross-overs , one at Wolverton and one just North of Bletchley . |
| 2 | He saw this as being compatible with the crust being made up of two layers , the upper one of relatively low density , the lower layer of higher density . |
| 3 | Mr. Munday was notable for his large family of 130 descendants , made up of two sons , nine daughters , 38 grandchildren , 76 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren . |
| 4 | It will be headed as president by Willie Shen , who has been m.d. of Longman Group Far East for the past 18 years , and will initially be made up of two divisions : Longman Hong Kong and Longman Asia ELT . |
| 5 | The Institute is made up of two departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured , and Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods and products live up to the claims made by manufacturers . |
| 6 | The discomfort in uncomplicated male gonorrhoea is made up of two components . |
| 7 | It is a binary , made up of two components which are unequal in luminosity . |
| 8 | Delta is made up of two components , 6 minutes of arc apart ; the brighter member is white , while the fainter is orange . |
| 9 | Alpha is made up of two components of magnitudes 3 and 5 ; the separation is 231 seconds of arc , so that binoculars give a good view of the pair even though it is not in the least prominent . |
| 10 | Beta is made up of two components , separable with binoculars . |
| 11 | Nu is made up of two components , easily visible with binoculars . |
| 12 | " Goodwill " is made up of two components : trade connections and reputation . |
| 13 | The disturbance grant paid to employees at Norwich Union Insurance Group is made up of two elements ; one part taxable , the other non-taxable . |
| 14 | The dynamical development of a quantum system is , therefore , made up of two elements . |
| 15 | This story is really made up of two stories : A How Rima caught and caged the cassowary B How the Bower-bird tricked the Cassowary . |
| 16 | The account of the events at the sea is made up of two versions , quite distinct from one another , but cleverly intertwined . |
| 17 | The debate has again underlined the paralysis of a government made up of two parties which hold such opposing views on the resolution of the the occupied-territories question . |
| 18 | The band is made up of two men . |
| 19 | The CIS are probably the oldest team ever to play student rugby , but this composite side — made up of two Ukranians , nine Georgians , five Muscovites , six Kazakhs and Uzbeks — are unlikely to repeat their 1988 heroics and could well struggle against both Italy and Ireland . |
| 20 | The sample will be made up of two subsamples : those working full and part time and those not in employment . |
| 21 | The game was made up of two penalties and a try … |
| 22 | Her head was made up of two snakeheads and her sagging breasts bore witness to her eternal fertility . |
| 23 | Apple trees are made up of two parts , the fruiting variety and the rootstock . |
| 24 | Such an equation is basically made up of two parts : viz which indicates that business conditions are good , and which indicates business conditions are poor . |
| 25 | The British Coal Industry is made up of two sectors — the deep mines which are publicly owned and managed and the open-cast mines which are run by private companies on behalf of British Coal . |
| 26 | The labour movement in Ireland was made up of two organizations . |
| 27 | Erm , the idea is that letters are uniquely sep specified by different combinations of features , but certain letters would share more features than others So the idea is that you might consider that the letter X is made up of two features line going that way , whoops , yeah , and a line going that way , which when they 're viewed together make the letter X. The letter Y is made up of a line going that way and a line going that way . |
| 28 | ‘ The world is made up of two kinds of people — those who puncture their blisters and those that do n't . |
| 29 | This is made up of two words : pan , meaning ‘ all ’ , and rhe , the root of the word ‘ to speak ’ . |
| 30 | Joos 's " infinitive " is in fact made up of two words — to plus the bare infinitive — as can be seen from the possibility of inserting an adverb between them ( I want to really scare him ) and of finding to all by itself , something which is strictly impossible with inflections ( I do n't want to ) . |