Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] two " in BNC.

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1 For example , in a sample of 725 copulating pairs of two species of cicada , which are distinguishable but similar in appearance to the human eye , only seven contained members of two species ; the other 718 were matings of the same species .
2 Claire now works from home , coming into the office once a week and seeing clients on two more days .
3 Some items tested interpretation of the calculator display , and performance in handling sequences of two operations .
4 This will give me the pleasurable task of transcribing sections of two Zep tracks from the all-time classic album ‘ Led Zeppelin II ’ .
5 Defining relationships between two DataEase ‘ forms ’ or data file .
6 We are publishing pictures of two of these in each issue until January 1992 .
7 We will be publishing pictures of two of these in each issue from now until January 1992 .
8 ‘ He was seeking damages of two million dollars , ’ she says .
9 The assessment of the CytR-DNA backbone contacts , together with the genetically defined binding sequence , therefore , suggests that CytR lies across two adjacent minor grooves and recognizes its binding site by contacting bases in two neighbouring major grooves .
10 This may limit the ability of these hospitals to meet their pledges of maximum inpatient waiting times of two years .
11 A fine all-round games player , he was a dogged opening batsman , and played in four Cambridge University seasons , scoring centuries in two successive Varsity matches .
12 Police probe pub break-ins POLICE are investigating break-ins at two pubs in the Hartlepool area , when gaming machines were raided .
13 BY JUGGLING genes in two types of flu viruses a group of American investigators has produced a live-virus flu vaccine that shows every promise of being effective in humans .
14 BOMB squad detectives were early this morning investigating reports of two small firebombs at London 's Imperial War Museum .
15 Whenever possible use four parts of eating apples with two parts of cooking apples or crab apples .
16 Andrew Graham says a toxic waste incinerator owned by Re-Chem , was responsible for poisoning cattle on two of his farms .
17 Its composition — two pairs of highly stylized facing birds within two large vertically-arranged octagons — is very similar in general character and appearance to the rugs found in such paintings as the Virgin Enthroned by Fra Angelico ( c. 1387–1455 ) and the Annunciation by Carlo Crivelli ( c. 1430-c. 93 ) .
18 On her honeymoon Diana saw photographs of Camilla fall out of his diary ; later Charles appeared at dinner wearing cufflinks with two ‘ C's intertwined .
19 Thus Sir Archibald Geikie ( of the Geological Survey ) in an address at Birmingham in 1898 deplored the idea of splitting schools into two sides or sections ; but the trend towards specialization proved hard to control , and to some the sciences did seem to be all that needed to be known .
20 Job-sharing , splitting ministries between two individuals , is also supported .
21 Figure 15–1 ALLOCATING GOODS TO TWO PEOPLE .
22 When moving dancers from two feet to one in both open and closed sissonnes , the choreographer can make the movements dart over the floor as Aurora does in her final solo in The Sleeping Beauty .
23 For colliding plane wave solutions , we are considering space-times with two space-like Killing vectors .
24 The challenge was started with a drop of cow 's milk on the lips , whereafter milk was given in rising doses at two hour intervals .
25 Codding calls for two hook rigs armed with Cox and Rawle 3/0 crab hooks .
26 Admittedly there was only a single bed but that was fine by us ; we kept it warm for each other as we were doing shifts of two hours each .
27 By the 1840s naturalists were depicting relationships in two dimensions but without the orderly pattern of circles , producing images of relationships similar to geographical maps .
28 Suppose that a vector ζ is drawn in curved space–time linking points on two nearby geodesics at x and x + ζ .
29 Could de Valois have thought that it would be too much to risk giving chances to two hardly known South Africans in one production ?
30 The Huyghes immediately announced they were bringing charges on two counts because the communiqué constituted a violation of professional secrecy and because it could influence legal investigations .
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