Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the river from Hawes is Hardraw with its much-visited waterfall , while further down the dale lie two bonny villages , Askrigg and Bainbridge . |
| 2 | I 'll come , ’ she said and put down the receiver to meet two pairs of eyes that looked so astonished that she burst out laughing . |
| 3 | In this case l is 1 and s is ½. , and so the atom has two distinct states , as j , the vector sum of l and s , may be or ½ . |
| 4 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |
| 5 | The bookkeeping for this inter-fund transfer is a potential source of difficulty because strictly the transaction generates two double-entries . |
| 6 | Edwina Currie and Simon Hughes not only have the same face , voice and mannerisms — they are in fact the same person : creations of a con- and drag-artist who dreamed up the idea to draw two salaries , and now wishes he had n't . |
| 7 | Ward opened up the paper to reveal two tiny clay figures interlocked , the woman with her head bent over the man 's huge phallic erection . |
| 8 | Centuries later the light brought two of the shepherds , |
| 9 | Last night his distraught sister Margaret Blaze , 49 , said : ‘ Now the murderer has two deaths on his conscience . |
| 10 | The 1987 and 1992 figures are not strictly comparable because five years ago the Alliance had two separate leaders — David Owen and David Steel — who could each be named . |
| 11 | For example , even the hedgehog has two somatosensory representations in its cortex , while monkeys have up to seven ( Merzenich and Kaas 1980 ) . |
| 12 | As has been explained earlier , if the grounds of referral are denied by either parents or children , then the Panel has two choices . |
| 13 | When Ormondroyd sent Oldfield clear he forced Nixon to make a low save , then the goalkeeper needed two attempts to parry Thompson 's fierce 25-yard free kick . |
| 14 | How the disease has two such different symptoms I do not profess to explain … ’ — W. Cumming , London Medical Gazette , 1849 . |
| 15 | It did not amount to a commitment for full compensation for pensioners but it was a long way from where the Chancellor started two days earlier . |
| 16 | It began to rain steadily as they stopped the jeep where the track met two barely discernible footpaths . |
| 17 | The debate resumed on 18 November , when the Cabinet had two more papers before it dealing with capital punishment and the role of government . |
| 18 | The market received added impetus on 11 January 1990 when the Bank made two further moves : the maximum maturity of paper was extended to five years ( it was previously one year ) , with paper of a maturity between one and five years designated " medium-term notes " ( MTNs ) ; and issues could be in any currency , not just sterling . |
| 19 | Afterwards the girl told two other supervisors , one of whom said McConville was ‘ not like that ’ . |
| 20 | In other words the branch is part of the parent and therefore the requirement to hold two lots of reserves is really contrary to the spirit of the directive . |