Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] of two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caroline looked back at him and suddenly she thought of an old fable , the one in which a traveller had to choose which of two doors to open , knowing that behind one lay safety while behind the other crouched a tawny black and gold tiger . |
| 2 | When subjects are asked to judge which of two simultaneously displayed numbers is numerically the larger , irrelevant variations in the physical size of the digits influence response times when the numbers are printed in figures ( e.g. 9 ) but not when they are printed alphabetically ( nine ) . |
| 3 | Even when we are balancing one consideration against another in a quite particular case , to decide which of two conflicting prima facie obligations is the more stringent , we are trying to reach such an intuition , but the wealth of detail which determines the relative degrees of stringency in this case will make it inexpressible in a formula mechanically applicable to other cases . |
| 4 | ‘ My advice is to learn lots of two letter words to bump up your score . |
| 5 | I am going to tell you of two glimpses that have retained their clarity for me over the years while important and famous things have faded . |