Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent .
2 These will only appear after the final moult , except in damsel flies which take two moults , one very soon after the other , to bring their wings to perfection .
3 A further point is that although Piaget implies that explanations which combine two types of content are always inappropriate , this is not in fact the case .
4 Most cranes lay two heavily marked eggs which hatch two days apart , though usually only one chick survives .
5 NINETY drivers piled into each other in THREE mass crashes which closed TWO motorways yesterday .
6 I idly picked up one of the leaflets which had two pictures on its cover ; the first illustration showed a happy black family , all neatly dressed and reading books around a table that was filled with platefuls of food and with jugs labelled ‘ milk ’ .
7 Systems which employ two pushrods to the swashplate ( one in front and one behind ) are the ones to look for .
8 Censorship of writing , drama and film on grounds of morality is achieved by laws which apply two sets of standards .
9 It follows that this approach may also be applied for other types of space-times which contain two commuting Killing vectors .
10 Police in Paisley are investigating two late night incidents which left two men seriously injured .
11 Derek McLean , fund manager of Abbey Life Investment Services which provides two gilt and fixed interest unit trusts , said : ‘ We have included short dated index-linked gilts in our Capital and Reserve Trust .
12 We had to carry in in Winter we had the rainwater off the roofs which filled two brick cisterns for the livestock .
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