Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 And how two cultures failed entirely to understand each other .
2 Here we are concerned with bimolecular associations where adverse entropy changes denote loss of translational ( position ) and rotational ( orientation ) motions that occur when two entities come together to form one complex .
3 The year 1726 saw this difficulty emerge in an aggravated form in the county of Stirling , where two candidates came forward to challenge the re-election of MacFarlane of Kirkton , who had enjoyed the endorsement of the Duke of Montrose for several years past .
4 The two countries had yet to finalize a peace treaty formally ending the conflict which had effectively been halted by the 1988 ceasefire agreement [ see pp. 36568-69 ] .
5 But perestroika came late to the Soviet Academy of Sciences , and the reforms introduced over the past two years have yet to take effect .
6 There is a process of two individuals joining together to form a new life , often personified by children .
7 Two things spring immediately to mind .
8 A synergistic effect is defined as two substances coming together to create a greater effect than the sum of the two could achieve separately .
9 Such an immaculately synchronised performance between two figures seeks totally to control and condition our attention .
10 The two girls decide instead to opt for a frantic search for their long-lost father .
11 The other two squads had further to go in attacking similar installations around the northern or inner caisson .
12 By 1672 he was a close friend of Robert Hooke [ q.v. ] , as the latter records in his diary ; the two men met frequently to discuss linguistic matters .
13 The two men seem genuinely to like one another .
14 So they can show what two numbers multiply together to make twelve .
15 These two factors act together to create and reproduce social hierarchy .
16 Faye was wheeled to the small private room further along the corridor , and two nurses came immediately to help her into bed and take routine observations .
17 Physiologists were then increasingly agreeing that every cellular organism is either a single cell or a cell colony arising from the successive divisions of a single cell , and that two cells come together to form one at fertilization , each having arisen by the division of one cell in the respective parent body .
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