Example sentences of "when two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for the UN force in Lebanon said a Nepali had been killed and another seriously wounded when two mortar bombs fired by the Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army militia hit their post in the village of Yater . |
| 2 | Cooke said : ‘ You hate to lose a game like that , especially when it is so tight and when two decisions go against you in that manner . ’ |
| 3 | But there 's no doubt , honey , ’ the other woman added with a warm smile , ‘ that when two Leos really get it together it can be the most romantic marriage of all time . |
| 4 | We had one anxious telephone call from a Swedish newspaperman , who had run the story in his weekly science column , and was much perturbed when two professors challenged him to prove that the story was true . |
| 5 | When two descriptions are of the same type , plural reference is enhanced , regardless of syntactic condition , and regardless of whether the two descriptions are names or noun phrases . |
| 6 | We 've only just flipped off the radio when two tons of suede appear round the side of the building . |
| 7 | He left when two girls came in . |
| 8 | It is usually necessary to tidy up the line spacing when two documents have been merged . |
| 9 | A step-family is created when two adults form a new household in which one or both brings a child or children from a previous relationship . |
| 10 | Seven cult members , most of them elderly , left the compound in Waco , Texas , on Sunday in three groups , the largest number to be released since the first week of the siege when two adults and 21 children left . |
| 11 | As we have seen , when two liquids , or a liquid and a polymer are mixed , the formation of a homogeneous , one phase solution is assisted mainly by the large favourable gain in combinatorial entropy . |
| 12 | A coroner has recorded an accident verdict on a nine year old boy who was killed when two chair-lifts collided at a Californian ski resort . |
| 13 | When two accents differ from each other only phonetically , we find the same number of phonemes in both accents , but some or all of the phonemes are realised differently . |
| 14 | When two hours had passed and he had n't returned , Lyn imagined him finding his way back to Bale 's and by this act leading her there in search of him . |
| 15 | In hepatic bile , the nucleation time was inversely correlated with total lipid concentration when two groups were combined ( Fig 2 ; r=-0.53 , p<0.05 ) . |
| 16 | There was still enough ill-temper left in him to startle Vulcan into a gallop when two spurs were simultaneously jabbed into his body as they entered the straight stretch of forest track . |
| 17 | This happy state of affairs happens , mainly I believe , when two conditions are satisfied . |
| 18 | The intuitive judgement of the validity of the proportionality is much harder to make when two senses associated with a single word form are directly contrasted , as in horse : stallion : : dog 1 : dog 2 . |
| 19 | But when two officers showed up , they said they had officially seized the package , and wished to search his flat . |
| 20 | The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London . |
| 21 | The final straw for the Prison Officers ' Association came when two officers were kicked , beaten and punched in a fracas earlier this week — one went to hospital , the other 's on sick leave . |
| 22 | When two strangers are standing shivering at a bus-stop in an icy wind and one turns to the other and says ‘ My goodness , it 's cold ’ , it is difficult to suppose that the primary intention of the speaker is to convey information . |
| 23 | When two blocks of the same polymer are brought together and held at a temperature just above the T g for a time t , interdiffusion of the chains takes place from each block across the interface ( see figure 12.6 ) thereby joining the blocks together . |
| 24 | When two geologists were discovered surveying the hills north of Machynlleth , their landrover was chased along mountain roads until cornered by angry farmers . |
| 25 | We spent the whole morning climbing the steep , hard ice in the couloir 's depths , so were somewhat dismayed when two figures skiied up to the base of the couloir , raced up to and past us , virtually dispensing with runners and belays , and then abseiled down from the top of the hard climbing at one third height , passing us again . |
| 26 | It states that the entropy of an isolated system always increases , and that when two systems are joined together , the entropy of the combined system is greater than the sum of the entropies of the individual systems . |
| 27 | On the other hand , when two B II junctions face one another large changes are seen ( figure 10 ) . |
| 28 | This defence caused some difficulty for the Court of Appeal when two cases raised it in quick succession in the summer and autumn of 1988 . |
| 29 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 30 | When two members of his party jumped to the ground they crumbled to dust . |