Example sentences of "[prep] [art] two [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Smith is begging for help and you are concerned about Amy ; you feel that you have something to offer ( and you have responsibility for the two pre-school children ) . |
| 2 | The 18-year-old Bishop Auckland bowler is in the squad of 14 from which Durham will pick their sides for the two one-day matches against Essex at Chelmsford . |
| 3 | SOUTH AFRICA 's preparations for the two one-day internationals in Trinidad this weekend were disrupted when the Queen 's Park Oval 's net wickets were ruled unfit . |
| 4 | Abercrombie followed Unwin in advocating the second alternative for the two outer rings , and in fact his plan put great store on both the scenic aspect of regional open space and the detailed design which would knit the whole together into a continuous system by footpaths , riverside walks and bridleways . |
| 5 | If planning a set of three pictures , you could arrange the flowers in curves for the two outer pictures , and create a solid design for the middle one ( see p. 81 ) . |
| 6 | No talks with Bosnian Serb , Muslim or Croat leaders were scheduled , and Fred Eckhard , spokesman for the two international mediators , Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen , painted a bleak picture of prospects for agreement . |
| 7 | As everywhere , labourers ( and of course many artificers ) virtually accounted for the two lowest levels of assessment . |
| 8 | Blufton laughed , revealing a line of white teeth , regular except for the two upper canines which had grown forward over the teeth in front . |
| 9 | The form for the Two Thousand Guineas kept them going . |
| 10 | Two vector units will have four million apiece and there will be four to eight million for the two million bits of on-board RAM . |
| 11 | The view of to proposed here allows one , furthermore , to account for the two major uses of the to infinitive . |
| 12 | IRA terrorists were probably responsible for the two successive nights of blasts on Tyneside , a police chief said today . |
| 13 | The recording quality for standard 8mm is at least equal to VHS , and the comparison also holds for the two competing super-formats of Hi8 and S-VHS . |
| 14 | Registration of membership for the two political parties set up by the government to participate in the transition to civilian rule , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) , closed on May 5 , 1990 [ for their creation in October 1989 see p. 36968 ] . |
| 15 | Significant budget measures included a 26 per cent increase in foreign exchange made available at auction , a measure expected to stabilize the naira ; the end of state funding for the two political parties ( the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention ) ; and a doubling of the minimum wage ( from the level of N125 per month set in 1981 ) for public-sector employees . |
| 16 | They demonstrate this partially by their support for the two nationalist parties , Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party , though support for the latter does not necessarily imply nationalism . |
| 17 | But in between these two groups ( and ironically double Provincial Insurance Cup champions of the last two years , Bradford Salem , are amongst them ) there rest 47 Yorkshire clubs who have no opportunity , although competing in the Courage Leagues , of entering a national knock-out competition , because the qualifying regulations for the two existing competitions do not encompass them . |
| 18 | Mujaheddin sources said that the soldiers were returned on humanitarian grounds ; there was no indication of an exchange of prisoners despite earlier reports that the Kabul government was prepared to exchange 73 mujaheddin prisoners for the two Soviet servicemen . |
| 19 | It was the first week of work for the two new directors , Monsieur Armand Moncharmin and Monsieur Firmin Richard . |
| 20 | Provision for the two other groups defined under South Africa 's system of racial categorization , the ‘ Coloureds ’ ( people of mixed race ) and Asians , was also separate . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend 's second criticism of the way in which the scheme has worked is that the £24 million budget which was set aside for the two financial years — and I emphasise two years — 1989-91 was underspent . |
| 22 | The profit and loss accounts and balance sheets of the Vendor relating to the Business for the two financial years ended on the Balance Sheet Date give a true and fair view of the financial position of the Vendor and of the Business during and at the end of such years . |
| 23 | That was the best way of controlling Gesner for the two remaining acts — through the orchestra . |
| 24 | Eventually the Head of Customs authorised our documents so it was back to Gate One for the two remaining stamps to allow us into Austria . |
| 25 | In addition to the closure of two military bases , the USA also agreed to continue military aid to Greece at the level of US$345,000,000 for the year from October 1990 as rent for the two remaining bases , and promised Greece 62 aircraft and four naval destroyers , together worth over $1,000 million . |
| 26 | John had made a few 1st Division appearances with Charlton , but undoubtedly the climax of his career came when he captained Palace to promotion to that premier division of world soccer at the end of 1968–69 — and then maintained his high level of performance by helping to keep the Palace in the top flight for the two remaining seasons in which he stayed with the club . |
| 27 | Before an item is recorded in a computer 's memory , the memory is in a disordered state , with equal probabilities for the two possible states . |
| 28 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 29 | With some advice from his acquaintance , Maitre Perreyve , Anthony ordered the plat du jour , a boeuf en daube â la mode , for the two young mesdemoiselles . |
| 30 | This approaches the highest transverse velocity so far directly measured ( PSR2224+65 ) but is less than velocities of 1,700 and 2,300kms -1 inferred for the two young pulsars PSR1800–21 ( W30 ; G8.7–0.1 ) , and PSR1757–24 ( G5.4–1.2 ) , respectively . |