Example sentences of "[be] [conj] the two " in BNC.

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1 One persistent idea has been that the two main moderate right-wing parties , the Rassemblement pour la République and the Union pour la Démocratie Française , must get together if they are to have any chance of regaining power .
2 We wo n't ever know what might have been if the two had met .
3 The position now seems to be that the two offences have the same legal definition , and that the prosecution should prefer the charge of manslaughter when the case is a bad one which might merit a sentence in excess of the five-year maximum for causing death by reckless driving .
4 The reasoning behind this proposal seems to be that the two parties are adult , and any exploitation deriving from the family tie seems no more likely than in other adult relationships .
5 It may be that the two books were originally one manuscript .
6 The best chance of success for working people no doubt would be if the two great general unions , the T G W U and the G M B , found a way of doing it together , found a way of creating the most powerful union that has ever existed in Britain .
7 Modigliani 's style was so entirely different from Picasso 's that the two were in no way rivals .
8 One problem here is that the two most serious offences include violence against property , so that conviction may result from threats against a person 's property .
9 Robin Dunbar ( personal communication ) is of the opinion that the reason why this happens in gelada is that the two males strike a bargain , as it were .
10 The basic reason for such sterility is that the two parents contain different numbers of chromosomes .
11 IF New Scientist has a wish for 1983 that is in theory achievable it is that the two cultures C. P. Snow described a generation ago should again become one .
12 One of the objectives is that the two become one .
13 Another strange point of the mystery is that the two men claimed that the smoke came out of the tunnel mouth towards the station yet a breeze was blowing the other way .
14 Another possibility is that the two deuterium nuclei combine to form helium-4 ; here again the mass of helium-4 is less than the combined masses of two deuterium nuclei and the ‘ spare ’ mass is manifested as electromagnetic radiation far beyond the visible spectrum and known as a gamma ray ( denoted by γ ) .
15 One explanation for this is that the two bodies constituting Pluto were originally moons of Neptune , but that something tore them from the giant planet 's grasp — the converse of what is thought to have happened to Triton !
16 What is certain is that the two parts of the community continued to the time of Lanfranc 's death and beyond to face each other with unconcealed hostility .
17 Another irritation with the current crop of fax modems is that the two parts of the modem do n't cooperate with one another .
18 His theory is that the two men were either freelance or else they decided to try and kill the President by themselves without telling the others . ’
19 These two are compared — classifications involve comparisons and contrasts — and the mechanism of the comparison is that the two types ( CRAs and IRAs ) are matched together , but always against a further factor .
20 The problem is that the two may not change in tandem ; the first may need to change rapidly , while the latter change only slowly if at all .
21 The reason it thinks your 486SX is a 386 is that the two processors do share many common features , it just that one is a lot more powerful than the other .
22 Wensley ( 1981 ) says that management must decide how much effort should be exerted on CAPM compared to the strategic analysis of competitive advantage , but the position adopted here is that the two concepts are related and that effort on one ought to improve understanding of the other , even if little research on such matters has yet been performed .
23 What 's nice about Willy and Hugh is that the two main characters are , apparently , so different .
24 All Hanne knows is that the two of them are staying somewhere in Copenhagen for an indefinite period . ’
25 The rule is that the two plugs fit together so that black wires are in the middle — if you are in any doubt then seek assistance or use a voltmeter to check the power supply .
26 The difficulty is that the two contributions made opposite points .
27 Although there have been theories in this area which would suggest a linear relationship between arousal and performance ( e.g. Hull , 1943 ) the most common claim is that the two variables are related by the curvilinear pattern known as the inverted-U hypothesis ( e.g. Hebb , 1955 ) .
28 The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position .
29 The alternative to Joos 's view is that the two editions of the infinitive are variants .
30 The difficulty , from the defendant 's point of view , is that the two agreements , instead of imposing a joint liability on him and Miss Guile to pay a deposit of £80 and monthly payments of £73.32 , on their face imposed on each of them individual and separate obligations to pay only a deposit of £40 and monthly payments of only £86.66 .
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