Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 2 | Twenty trainee drivers , moustaches bristling , risked a backward glance at the two lovelies at the fare stage , before riveting their attention once more on the words of wisdom being spouted by the clean-shaven official in command of the steering handle . |
| 3 | On 3 March the heads of the two universities spoke by phone , and discussed the importance and complexities of the test-tube fusion research at the two institutions . |
| 4 | The proliferation of industry alliances and more recent consolidations is said to have induced a state of panic at the two firms about the logic of what they are trying to achieve with the common interface — bandied about in some quarters as Systems Application Architecture II — and whether there are sound business reasons behind it . |
| 5 | By stereophonic means a situation was created such that each ear heard the same two virtually simultaneous messages but , due to a very small difference in the time of arrival of a given stimulus at the two ears , one message appeared to come from the subject 's left while the other appeared to come from the right . |
| 6 | If you have anything to offer please make contact at the two addresses at the end of this newsletter . |
| 7 | She came to his side and stared along the alley at the two men who were standing unwarily outlined in the light of a held lantern . |
| 8 | After that Albert was content to live in squalor , taking most of his refreshment next door at The Two Pheasants to save cooking . |
| 9 | Here we show that , in the absence of strong historical evidence , field data do not support the existence of variations in the duration of sympatry at the two areas where the distributional ranges of the cuckoo and its hosts overlap . |
| 10 | Richard Butcher , prosecuting , said the charge arose from an incident at The Two Brewers , Chelmsford , on Christmas Eve , 1991 . |
| 11 | But as soon as the two poles are put into relationship by a " power conductor " the relative potential at the two ends of the connector generates a power flow . |
| 12 | Follow the path down to the tramroad at the two gates . |
| 13 | Quite honestly I have no particular erm preference there for you except let's have a look at the two products shall we ? |
| 14 | A Cun walked over to take a closer look at the two travellers . |
| 15 | Take a look at the two photographs ( above ) and this will equally convince you that since being in the hands of an expert it really has become my ‘ crowning head of glory ’ . |
| 16 | A problem with this manoeuvre , however , is that certain evidence implicates the right hemisphere in control of simple reaction time ( Benson and Barton , 1970 ; Howes and Boller , 1975 ; Nakamura and Taniguchi , 1977 ) and thus equivalent response times for left and right hemisphere groups may not in fact reflect equivalent damage at the two sides of the brain . |
| 17 | Warily Fran glanced over her shoulder at the two men . |
| 18 | There was no significant correlation between rates of change of bone density at the two sites , or between the rates of change and the initial bone density either in the radius or spine . |
| 19 | Of particular significance to our discussion in this chapter is her conclusion about the way in which technology appears to influence organisational structure at the two ends of the scale of technological complexity . |
| 20 | Sharpe spurred down to the crossroads , touched his hat to the old ladies who were staring with alarm at the two horsemen , then he turned to gaze down the long southwards road that led to Charleroi . |
| 21 | a woman stared suspiciously form the farm 's arch at the two soldiers , then stepped back into the yard and slammed the heavy gate . |
| 22 | Strange , this detail at the two ends of day ; |
| 23 | Still , the application of different principles of design at the two ends could be accounted for in one man 's work : either by supposing that he saw and was overwhelmed by the Theseion mural between designing the east and designing the west ; or , perhaps more convincingly , that he felt a traditional , sculptural style proper to the entrance-front while allowing himself at the back to experiment with a new pictorial interest . |