Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Yon reiterated the North 's position that the two states should enter the UN sharing a single Korean seat .
2 This included a commitment that " if one of the two states should become the target of aggression , then the other side will give the aggressor no military aid or other support " .
3 If one of the two states should become the target of aggression , then the other side will give the aggressor no military aid or other support and will take all measures to end the conflict using the principles and procedures of the United Nations and other structures of collective security .
4 The two Canadians may have the sentenced reduced to life imprisonment on appeal .
5 Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours .
6 The two Russians would replace the two cosmonauts currently on board , and would stay in space until January 1993 .
7 A shipload of India 's textiles in the next two months would encourage the villager and ensure 1,000,000 tons of rice from Burma 's surplus for India next Christmas .
8 In particular I wondered whether the two brothers would have the capacity and the style to take their company into the upper echelons of the business world .
9 Until God 's final day when he will bring in the kingdom , two characteristics would mark the age of the Church : the Holy Spirit , and witness to Jesus .
10 If two words can summarise the experience of the HNC , they must be ‘ practical ’ and ‘ intensive ’ .
11 Two methods may have the same selection of structure , vocabulary and meaning , yet differ in the order in which they teach it .
12 The previous two paragraphs may cause the non-mathematically minded to mutter the old adage about there being lies , damned lies , and statistics .
13 ‘ The other two parties can ignore the realities of what the polls show up till about Sunday , ’ he said .
14 The amalgamation between two companies may take the form of merger proper ( when both companies cease to exist ) and the new company becomes the general successor in title of the two companies so merged , or it may take the form of a take-over when only the company so taken over ceases to exist .
15 These two companies will form the nucleus of the University of Sussex Research Park .
16 It will simply be a case of which of the two areas can muster the greatest amount of support in order to secure the development for their own area !
17 As a consequence , although the amount of , say , blue light reflected by the red area may have gone up , so will the amount of blue light reflected by the green area As a consequence , the ratio of blue light in the two areas will remain the same , as will the ratio of green light in the two areas and the ratio of red light .
18 Any two Directors can form the Routine Business Committee .
19 The citing of these two varieties will illustrate the basic characteristics of the cheeses of this type — uncut curds treated very gently and never pressed , the whey being allowed to drain naturally .
20 Their progress over the next two weeks will solve the Guineas mystery , but that is of little concern to connections of Dr Devious , who heads now for the Kentucky Derby ( for which he is 10–1 from 12–1 ) in Louisville on May 2 and returns to Epsom for the Ever Ready Derby in June .
21 Our two personae may have the roles of speaker and hearer , yet they ‘ may also stand in a certain linguistically-relevant relationship of status vis-à-vis one another ( parent : child , master:servant , teacher:pupil , etc . ) . ’
22 Two planes can store the binary numbers 00 , 01 , 10 and 11 ( decimal 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 ) and so could represent black ( 0 ) and white ( 3 ) with two intermediate shades of grey .
23 Students who can only participate in the course for two years may sit the Diploma in Psychiatry in the sixth term .
24 Building upon the work of Storey and others , the data set obtained from the two surveys will allow the identification of the contribution made by the financial assistance of each authority to the success and development of the local companies .
25 The two figures could represent the Herculean task faced by William and Mary as they were offered the English throne in 1688 .
26 A pink milk pudding or blancmange is simple in the sense that , if we slice it in two , the two portions will have the same internal constitution : a blancmange is homogeneous .
27 Occasionally , knowing that all but two fieldsmen must patrol the area within the 30-yard circle centred around the stumps at each end , they chip the ball over their heads into the ‘ no-mans 's land ’ beyond them .
28 There will be a limiting distance within which the more massive of the two bodies will disrupt the other , and a smaller limiting distance within which , had it survived , the less massive body would have disrupted the more massive body .
29 Examples of the two extremes may clarify the meaning .
30 It is possible that a failure to distinguish between the two sexes can explain the lack of agreement .
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