Example sentences of "the [noun] [art] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) The parties to the contract The two parties envisaged under the SGA 1979 are the seller and the buyer . |
| 2 | Although he anticipated a change in the relationship as Britain gradually concentrated on its roles in Europe , for the present the two countries continued to take " a broadly similar view of the world " . |
| 3 | In the kitchen the two cooks were preparing to depart . |
| 4 | The look the two men exchanged spoke more volumes than would fit into any book . |
| 5 | In fact Wordsworth liked geometry ; he describes the ‘ pleasure gathered from the elements / Of geometric science ’ ( Prelude 1805 vi , 135–87 ) , and in the famous dream in Book V of The Prelude the two things to be saved from the impending Deluge are ‘ Poetry and Geometric Truth ’ . |
| 6 | During the dark the two sorts of web lasted equally well , but once dawn had broken the difference became clear . |
| 7 | Remember to change the filter floss weekly and the carbon every two months if the tank is fully stocked . |
| 8 | All data collection takes place in the home every two weeks . |
| 9 | She asked him to test her on fielding positions , and he marked out on the sand the two sets of stumps and the ten fielding positions around them . |
| 10 | Gauguin 's chair , " Effet de Nuit " , Alexander came to realise , with its nocturnal colour-scheme of ruddy browns and murky greens resembled the iniquitous " Night Cafe " ( and by implication the brothels the two painters had haunted in search of subject-matter and what else ? , scene of Gauguin 's triumphs and Vincent 's humiliations ) . |
| 11 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 12 | Now , with both Liverpool and Everton among the also-rans the two men find themselves in the ironic position of standing in each others ' way with the Premier League championship up for grabs . |
| 13 | From the moment the two horses jumped off to work , Kelly knew she was in trouble . |
| 14 | At the moment the two areas are divorced by a road that will revert to green fields when the project is complete . |
| 15 | During the three months before the move the two bases will continue to be maintained fully staffed . |
| 16 | Tucked into the shadows ahead of me along the pavement the two blacks had melted out of sight . |
| 17 | The room the two men looked into was massive ; was more garden than room . |
| 18 | Towards the end of the period the two parties began to produce competing plans to superimpose an earnings-related pensions scheme on top of the inadequate flat rate system . |
| 19 | If during the procedure the two endoscopists present did not agree , a hiatal hernia was considered to be not present . |
| 20 | And after the revolution the two strata coalesced to form a ruling class which repressed and exploited workers and peasants as brutally as did the capitalists of the West . |
| 21 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |
| 22 | Having never visited America , the Ashleys had scant grasp of the cultural differences or geographical distances involved ; in the UK no two stores were more than 350 miles apart . |
| 23 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |
| 24 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 25 | In the morning the two sides shared the four Foursomes matches but therein hides a tale of powerful enough to displace Neighbours at the top of the TV ratings . |
| 26 | But though she walked quickly towards the gate the two girls ran off up the lane . |
| 27 | In non-comedies , such as those melodramas where a top female star plays twins , one good , one evil ( Olivia de Havilland in The Dark Mirror , 1946 ; Bette Davis in A Stolen Life , 1946 , and again in Dead Ringer , 1964 ) , the director will tend to reduce , if possible , not so much the scenes the two characters play opposite each other as the shots in which they appear on-screen simultaneously . |
| 28 | They suggest that the territory the two friends shared was restricted . |
| 29 | His wife Ina , 64 , said she heard a scuffle going on outside , but when she got to the door the two youths had already fled . |
| 30 | After the hearing the two men were smuggled out of the building to avoid journalists . |