Example sentences of "comprise two " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two countries would share equally the costs of building the 17-km link , which would comprise two bridges and a tunnel , and which was provisionally costed at DKr12,000 million ( US$1,000 million ) . |
| 2 | To von Uexküll ( 1909 ) , the Umwelt of an animal comprised two parts , the world as sensed and the world of actions . |
| 3 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 4 | They comprised two operatic arias sung by the tenor Jean de Reszke , which are known to have been recorded in Paris on 22nd April 1905 . |
| 5 | On the day I went the team comprised two practising barristers , a QC who is a Recorder of the Crown Court and a Circuit judge . |
| 6 | If one accepts ( and not everyone does : there are some vocal Soviet opponents of the idea ) the theory of continental drift propounded by Alfred Wegener , then the present configuration of the planet derives from the break-up of a single super-continent which he called Pangea , which comprised two lesser continents called Gondwanaland and Laurasia , and a shallow marginal sea named the Tethys . |
| 7 | Cradock 's force , based in the Falkland Islands , comprised two obsolescent armoured cruisers , Good Hope and Monmouth , which were heavily out-gunned by Spee 's formation ; a modern cruiser the Glasgow ; and the armed merchantman Otranto . |
| 8 | It comprised two main elements , professional and academic , each sub-divided . |
| 9 | Aggregate demand comprised two basic elements , investment and consumption . |
| 10 | One lay in the junction between streets 1 and 2 , fronting onto the former , and originally comprised two rooms built of lias limestone , Hamstone and Pennant Sandstone with flint gravel floors . |
| 11 | It comprised two rooms each c. 4 m ( 13 ft ) square , laid out on either side of the alley ( 3 ) , which presumably served further rooms and a yard to the rear . |
| 12 | The frontage was subsequently occupied by a building ( 3a ) on lias and Hamstone footings , measuring 18 by 6.5 m ( 59 by 21 ft ) , which originally comprised two rooms to which a third was added on the north . |
| 13 | The original installation provided in the 1960s comprised two main passenger lifts , together with an adjacent baggage lift . |
| 14 | A ‘ community ’ of bats in Queensland comprised two subunits : four species in the closed canopy and five in gaps , while three other species used both . |
| 15 | Unlike the former however , the latter probably comprised two workshops , one of which was composed of itinerant craftsmen ranging over much of southern England . |
| 16 | Externally the palazzo is severe and a little dull — though you should look for the symbol of the Viscontis , the snake eating the saracen — but inside it is exquisite , comprising two courtyards which are occasionally open to the visitor ; as the palazzo now houses private offices , visiting is not unrestrained . |
| 17 | There are two monasteries on the site comprising two cloisters and three churches dedicated to St Francis , St Saviour and St Barbara . |
| 18 | A road link comprising two artificial islands at the edges of the main shipping lanes joined to shore by bridges and to each other by an immersed tube tunnel . |
| 19 | DNA molecules , comprising two separate strands twisted into a spiral , monitor how cells function . |
| 20 | Comprising two lakes , each of about three acres and generally from 12 to 18 feet deep , the fishery is set attractively on the edge of the Breckland forests and adjacent to the River Lark . |
| 21 | Like the 107 , the 103/4 employs a dual bass driver configuration comprising two 160mm drivers in a double coupledcavity configuration . |
| 22 | Around 10 May 1945 , comprising two divisions , the Corps withdrew into Austria in front of the Bulgarian army in the south-east of the 5 Corps area , hoping to surrender to the British . |
| 23 | The shell-shape patterns reviewed here ( and more fully by Crothers , 1983b ) coupled with the chromosome variation , can be " explained " by envisaging the N. lapillus populations of the British Isles as comprising two main groups ( Fig. 33 ) . |
| 24 | The original , redundant infant school comprising two flat-roofed , one-storey blocks subsequently became the home of the city 's first disruptive pupils ' unit , the Delphi Centre . |
| 25 | We could therefore make a rule that ‘ melodies should begin with two sentences , each comprising two phrases etc. ’ , but we must refrain from doing so . |
| 26 | It was certainly suppressed by the late third or fourth century when the stone building was provided with a corridor 4 m ( 13 ft ) wide along its western side , comprising two and ultimately three rooms . |
| 27 | Though only its rough foundations survived , the west gate turned out to be an impressive and imposing structure , comprising two towers with semicircular fronts , flanking a dual carriageway . |
| 28 | It is at the core of our proposals that single-person households should pay less than households comprising two or more adults . |
| 29 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral National Congress consisting of a 400-member Federal Chamber of Deputies elected every three years ( 300 by majority vote in single-member constituencies and the remaining 100 by proportional representation from minority parties ' lists ) and a 64-member Senate ( comprising two senators from each state and two from the Federal District ) elected at the same time as the President . |
| 30 | On finance , Heseltine conceded that the public had " not been persuaded that the [ community ] charge is fair " , and he stated that it would be replaced by a new local tax under which there would be a single bill for each household comprising two essential elements : the number of adults living there and the value of the property . |