Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of settling Jews in Palestine , the British Foreign Office cabled two of its ambassadors in 1916 , ‘ might be made far more attractive to the majority of Jews if it held out to them the prospect that when in course of time the Jewish colonists in Palestine grew strong enough to cope with the Arab population they may be allowed to take the management of the internal affairs of Palestine … into their own hands … |
| 2 | This official search serves two vital purposes for a buyer : ( a ) it gives an assurance that no adverse entry has been made since the date searched from ; and ( b ) it gives the buyer priority for the registration of transfer ( or mortgage , when a prospective mortgagee is searching ) provided the buyer 's own transfer or mortgage is lodged in the Registry before 11 am on the thirtieth working day from the date of the certificate . |
| 3 | But this overall objective encompasses two quite distinct purposes . |
| 4 | This assumed consensus has two possible explanations , however . |
| 5 | This simple suggestion has two defects . |
| 6 | This second stage has two alternative gains of x20 and x200 selectable by 4016 switch . |
| 7 | In addition to the existence of these three preconditions , the English legal system requires two further rules in order to function . |
| 8 | This latter feature has two distinct negative qualities : first , that the patient must not be someone categorized as chronically mentally unfit , and second , that he must not be someone who is regarded as suffering from temporary unsoundness of mind . |
| 9 | However , even this bare summary raises two important questions . |
| 10 | This present family boasts two genera , each of which contains only one species . |
| 11 | Yet this very fact raised two serious problems for the structure of enterprise . |
| 12 | Other items of note in this important collection include two ‘ ushabti ’ statuary figurines in quartzite ( est. £50,000–80,000 ; $76,500–122,000 , and £15,000–25,000 ; $23,000–38,250 ) , bronzes and glazed statuettes . |
| 13 | This first edition has two chapters 28 owing to a mistake which occurred in the printing of the monthly numbers and remained uncorrected until the appearance of PP in the Cheap Edition . |
| 14 | The first very fascinating discovery a visitor to Alvingham will make is that this small village has two churches in one churchyard . |
| 15 | This particular dataset covers two years where RAWP used only one in their validation exercise , and was compiled for an article in the Lancet which was critical of the RAWP formula ( Forster 1977 ) . |
| 16 | Volume Two of a 10 volume series , this particular video contains two films , Watch and Ward in the Air a 1937 film showing the basics of air navigation for land based aircraft with special considerations given for flying boats . |
| 17 | This particular example highlights two additional shortcomings which afflict our conventional political institutions . |
| 18 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |
| 19 | English criminal law has two degrees of homicide , murder and manslaughter . |
| 20 | The ability of this young quartet to present two works from such different worlds so convincingly , led one to expect that Dvorak 's American quartet would be a powerful experience ; but what might have been hot-blooded came over as an indoor gypsy — more pretty than potent . |
| 21 | All that turbulence went on elsewhere for each and this third circle linking two others was its own territory . |
| 22 | The tall pure parental line had two tallness factors , the short line two shortness factors . |
| 23 | I tackled up with a simple running bullet stopped two inches from the size 6 hook . |
| 24 | So six four time means two dotted minim beats in every bar . |
| 25 | In one model of the mechanism of cleavage , R· Eco K is believed to make a single-stranded cut in the DNA molecule ; therefore , a complete double-stranded cleavage requires two endonuclease molecules [ 11 ] . |
| 26 | Consider Figure 2.2 where we illustrate the shifting by one bit position of a six-bit binary number using two 's complement representation . |
| 27 | A fourth taxi driver told the police he escaped a murder attempt in north Belfast a short time later , claiming he spotted a black Mini car carrying two men who pulled on masks and produced a gun when they approached his car on the Antrim road . |
| 28 | My poor old love died two years ago . |
| 29 | So the poor old boy had two major operations in three weeks , but he 's getting on fine now . ’ |
| 30 | The Eastern Daily Press awarded two prizes of £1,000 to Naomi Dines in Canterbury and Victoria Arney in Norwich . |