Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fierce debate between these two tendencies pointed to the difficulties — and personal anguish — women often experienced when they tried to develop positive representations of their own sexuality . |
| 2 | Six demonstrators spent two hours chained to the fence at the R-A-F Aston Down Airfield near Stroud . |
| 3 | Up to two adaptors attach to the 200 at £386 each . |
| 4 | Children were divided into four groups according to symptoms , and then into two groups according to the presence or absence of neurological deficit . |
| 5 | These were refloored , covered with linoleum , coved at all angles , and hooks were fixed in the ceilings for suspending cots in two tiers on both sides for the naval trains , and folding berths in two tiers hinged to the sides for the military trains . |
| 6 | No man has any reason to say that any two states belong to the same self unless he has a reason to believe them to be caused by the same body . |
| 7 | In the second place , even those people who have heard of the doctrine , and who accept it , do not , in far the greater number of cases , base their judgements that two states belong to the same self on a previous conviction that they are caused by the same body . |
| 8 | The collision of two continents leads to the eventual cessation of subduction , whereas other types of collision may cause a change in the location of the subduction zone . |
| 9 | A picture of a skin handcuffed to a policeman showed the message ‘ Made in London ’ tattooed fairly and squarely on his forehead , his face screwed up and two fingers raised to the camera . |
| 10 | It exploded in mid-air , and the two riders somersaulted to the sand . |
| 11 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |
| 12 | As a preliminary , we must note that Thai has two forms to correspond to the English word old ; one is ( with superscript 2 indicating low tone ) which is used of animate beings , and the other is , applied to inanimates . |
| 13 | The government has two months to reply to the charges . |
| 14 | He then joined his brother at the Brighton works of the London , Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1871 to 1875 , working under the direction of William Stroudley [ q.v. ] , after which the two brothers moved to the North British Railway works at Cowlairs and in 1882 to the neighbouring works at St Rollox of the Caledonian Railway , where Peter was appointed assistant locomotive engineer and works manager . |
| 15 | There were two pictures taped to the side of the fridge : Jesus and Donald Duck . |
| 16 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 17 | The two frogs hopped to the water . |
| 18 | Again , as an example , take two parties agreeing to the painting of a house , where , in law , the contract finally made amounts only to an obligation to exercise reasonable endeavours to paint the house . |
| 19 | The two sequences testify to the importance which a monastic community attached to its corporate ideal , and the steps by which a final and fatal resort to forgery came to appear the only path to a just solution . |
| 20 | Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have been discussing the possibility of a merger between the two companies according to the San Jose Mercury News Apple declined to comment on the report , and Novell denied it , saying that ‘ We 're always in industry discussions with them , but we 're not having discussions with them about merging , ’ but the paper says that the talks between Apple chairman John Sculley and Novell chairman Ray Noorda were a closely-guarded secret and known only by an elite group of senior executives at the two firms . |
| 21 | NORTH West Water Group has spent £4m acquiring two companies dedicated to the research and development of membrane technology — Ceramesh in Oxfordshire and ICI 's Membrane Business in Cheshire . |
| 22 | TWO gardens open to the public in Co Antrim and Co Down this weekend under the National Trust 's Ulster Gardens Scheme . |
| 23 | Within each grouping , the two columns correspond to the two definitions of ‘ correct ’ given above . |
| 24 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 25 | We checked into it and Sun has two engineers assigned to the case . |
| 26 | I I listened to Mr speech with some incredulity I must say , but I did listen to what he said and if what he said is true then I I find some of the things disturbing and and er I 'd like to see his figures and I I w I I that there have certainly been er two messages coming to the social services committee in in in that case . |
| 27 | Software Etc Stores Inc , Edina , Minnesota software retailer , got its offering of 800,000 shares , all new , away at $15.50 per share and intends to use the $12m or so net proceeds to accelerate its store expansion programme — opening 60 to 70 new stores in each of the next two years to add to the 42 currently open . |
| 28 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 29 | A spokesman explained that two possibilities relating to the disposal of the aircraft were being investigated . |
| 30 | Once again it 's claimed that the algae is toxic enough to kill animals , specifically two dogs according to the Glasgow Daily Record . |