Example sentences of "[prep] [art] two [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Doubling " in the context of gambling is clearly shown in Saint Pierre et le jongleur , where during the two games the stakes played for are steadily doubled . |
| 2 | The lavatory was below ground , and in the white brick walls between the two cubicles a hole had been hacked , one of the best glory-holes in existence at that time . |
| 3 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 4 | After tricky negotiations between the two professors a judicious compromise was reached by which Heisenberg was allowed to pass but at the lowest level . |
| 5 | Between the two wars the hayfield became the recreation ground and the ancient White House on the sea front the Tourist Information Centre . |
| 6 | Between the two referendums the ERM suffered seven realignments , lost two currencies ( the pound and the lira ) and very nearly blew apart . |
| 7 | Although there had been a 6 per cent swing from ‘ right ’ to ‘ left ’ between the two elections the former were still in a clear majority . |
| 8 | A stand-off agreement was struck between the two parties a couple of years ago but observers say the recent death of Savoy president Sir Hugh Wontner may have triggered a fresh attack . |
| 9 | Clearly , the longer the time interval between the two assessments the greater the chances that there will be differences . |
| 10 | Despite a long history of hostility between the two organizations the tone of the seven-hour meeting was described as good-natured , while the joint peace strategy which emerged was seen as a positive development . |
| 11 | So the brain we talked about the two hemispheres the left and the right hemisphere the fact that the left is very much involved in a a linear way whereas the right is involved in spatial way , anybody remember the relative contribution of the two halves ? |
| 12 | Of the two groups the former are more biassed towards persuasive selling , whilst the latter tend to be order-takers . |
| 13 | Of the two combos the 2x10 is the more compact , at 23″H x 20.5″W x 16″D , whereas the 1155 has a height of 27.5″ . |
| 14 | They thought the division of the two provinces a check on Russian influence . |
| 15 | The men were the brothers of Patrick Welsh , one of the two men a jury had just cleared Mr Thompson of killing by using his Jaguar to force their van off the road and into a wall and lamp post . |
| 16 | Of the two archers the younger was tall and fair with a ruddy complexion , the other was of medium height and stalwart build , his hair grizzled at the temples , his eyes grey , his mouth well set above a firm chin , and his expression one of habitual good-humour , as though of a man at peace with himself if not with the world . |
| 17 | Speedie , a one-time Quaker with Darlington and like the two managers a former number seven at Anfield , headed his second on the hour and side-footed his third after a mix up between Wright and Liam O'Brien with fifteen minutes left . |
| 18 | When gravitational radiation is incident from above with its polarization axes aligned along the two arms the lengths of these arms will expand and contract in anti-phase . |
| 19 | Even then , apart from the two nights a week , when they would visit a cinema or call on friends , she was ever with Mother . |
| 20 | In order to compare the number of abnormal subareas observed in the two groups the results were normalised . |
| 21 | Although the age — sex composition and total number of animals present were similar in the two periods the number of reproductive units had decreased between the studies with a corresponding increase in mean unit size . |
| 22 | Similar rules may be constructed to examine the operation of processes of lengthening and rounding so that it is possible ( for example ) to compare in the two communities the distribution of vowel length in four phonetic environments ( see J. Milroy et al. |
| 23 | The 7th Earl decided in the early part of the twentieth century to install in the two rooms the panelling and so designed it that there were recesses for pictures . |
| 24 | The rent should be based on one quarter from the 1989 payment and three quarters from 1990 but as there is no change in the rent over the two years the expense is the same . |
| 25 | He pointed to the two killers the Earl of Angus had sent south . |
| 26 | A $600,000,000 trade agreement was signed by the two countries the previous month during a visit to Tehran by China 's Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade , Zheng Tuobin . |