Example sentences of "[prep] the two [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Yeltsin made an official visit to Italy on Dec. 19-20 , signing with the Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti a joint declaration establishing the basis for the two countries ' relationship . |
2 | It stokes up the pressure for the two teams ' clash in East Anglia on 5 April . |
3 | the convictions of ( 1 ) the person who took off his clothes in one of the fountains in Trafalgar Square ; ( 2 ) the persons who shouted ‘ Remember Biafra ’ during the two minutes ' silence at the 1969 Remembrance Day ceremony in Whitehall ; and ( 3 ) the person who painted the word ‘ Jews ’ in two foot high letters on the garden wall of a house occupied by a Jewish family , the father of whom had been a prisoner at Dachau . |
4 | Music had been important to her and the shelves held a catholic collection of records with which he could refresh or console himself during the two weeks ' holiday . |
5 | Remarkably , their table I shows that the median symptom scores for episodes of hypoglycaemia during the two months ' treatment are higher with porcine than human insulin for seven of the nine items and identical only for the remaining two ; the scores at the onset of attacks show the greatest difference . |
6 | But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell . |
7 | In an interspecies cross like the mule one would always expect marked differences between the two parents ' white cell antigens , and on the analogy with humans , habitual abortions should be rare . |
8 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
9 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
10 | Talks were also held between the two countries ' Foreign Ministers , who discussed the Cambodian question , and between the Ministers of Economic Relations and Trade . |
11 | The Washington Post of Feb. 12 reported that Arens made a request for greater US-Israeli co-ordination , including sharing of so-called " friend-or-foe " recognition codes to avoid conflict between the two countries ' military aircraft in the event of Israel entering the conflict . |
12 | The contrast between the two artists ' studios — one neat and methodical , the other more haphazard — pointed up the differences in their natures : Vaughan , cautious and stubborn ; Minton , flamboyant and easily derailed . |
13 | With rain keeping both teams off the pitch for long periods , the ‘ corridor of uncertainty ’ took on a new meaning as Keith Fletcher commuted between the two teams ' dressing-rooms , unsure of where his priorities as coach lay . |
14 | The North Korean Premier also proposed the installation of a communications link between the two sides ' military commands , the formation of a joint military group to discuss border disputes and the provision for on-site inspections to ensure that the arms agreement was observed . |
15 | All payments between Kazakhstan and Russia have to pass through the two countries ' central banks . |
16 | He convened a group within the cabinet to wrest control of Japan 's end of the two countries ' Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks from the civil servants . |
17 | This envisaged , among other things , the connection of the two countries ' electricity grids , giving priority to providing direct telecommunications links , joining railway lines at the border , and joint agricultural and water conservation projects . |
18 | The new National Front government 's foreign policy objectives , as outlined in the President 's address on Dec. 20 , 1989 , were for a strengthening of links with India 's neighbours and co-operation through the medium of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) , continued dialogue with China leading to a resolution of the two countries ' border dispute , development of the traditional friendship with the Soviet Union and of a new relationship with the United States , and economic co-operation with Japan and the European Communities ( EC ) . |
19 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
20 | The Chairman of Vietnam 's Council of Ministers , Senior Gen. Vo Van Kiet , hailed the visit as an " important event " in the normalization of the two countries ' relations . |
21 | The way in which the crisis of 1839 – 41 was resolved persuaded him that Britain might welcome an exploration of the two countries ' thoughts on the future of the Near East . |
22 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
23 | It was accepted , however , that the rationalisation of the two companies ' development of the System X telephone exchanges would be an advantage . |
24 | In particular , the combination of the two companies ' technologies is said to result in wide area network architectures that are highly scalable , simple to administer , and cost-efficient . |
25 | The combined forces of the two firms ' IT departments boast a strong mixture of computer experience and accounting knowledge , and they 're planning to provide standard spreadsheets for use throughout the company . |
26 | In the area of defence , the foremost claimant for government funds in time of war , the picture available of the two belligerents ' military machines , like that of their finances , is not always very clear . |
27 | Underneath some fairly violent anti-war protest , the interaction of the two students ' lives are played against each other and include some explicit sex . |
28 | FIG. 1 Pre-operative magnetic resonance images of the two infants ' brains ( T2-weighted axial images ) . |
29 | Dynastic concord and family harmony were , however , bought somewhat at the expense of the two princes ' subjects . |
30 | The period of the two painters ' great intimacy and of their unique collaboration was about to begin . |