Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [prep] two " in BNC.

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1 I have already put a good deal of stress upon two contrasted aspects of what seems to me to be the central paradox of anthropology considered as an intellectual discipline .
2 Sometimes the perception of connection between two ideas is direct , we perceive it ‘ immediately … without the intervention of any other ’ .
3 The vision can wander about the void but one part of a void is like another and there can be no consciousness of movement until two locations have been defined , either by two dots or by the displacement of one dot , which requires memory of its path .
4 Our first step in illustrating interval harmony using the whole chromatic octave will be to write a succession of consonances in two parts : This succession of six two-part chords uses the total-chromatic and a variety of consonances , though not the 4th and major 6th .
5 But according to analysts , Control Securities , which owes BCCI about £2m of a £5m loan , will be hit by the loss of rent from two office blocks which it leased to the bank .
6 There is considerable evidence that the multitudinous aspects of SLE may be the result of deficiencies of two members of the prostaglandin group of substances and excesses of others , which could be the result either of one or two related defects in the prostaglandin pathway , or of a single basic defect .
7 For example , the data of Vesnaver and Breslauer [ 13 ] on the thermodynamics of melting of two 13-mer single strand DNA oligomers indicate ΔH helix and TΔS helix values that , in both cases , average close to -10 kJ mol -1 per nucleotide at 300 K. Making the same assumption that ΔS h and ΔS hb contribute little to single strand stability , the adverse entropy change per base stack equates with only ∼2 kJ mol -1 per rotor restricted ( TΔS at 300 K ) .
8 Citroën have combined with Touraction , France Patrimoine and Locavacances to offer these superb one-week holidays for two incorporating a programme of activities in two of the most beautiful and historic locations in Southern Brittany .
9 In areas of impermeable rocks , such as the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Wales , the terraces are often preserved as a series of broad swells reaching approximately the same elevation , but the break of slope between two adjacent terraces is not always observable .
10 Below is an extract of conversation between two policemen who are telling a third about a cot death the two of them had recently attended .
11 With the penknife from her dressing-gown pocket she sawed the piece of chicken into two portions and handed one to Thérèse .
12 The old trick of trapping a piece of lettuce between two parts of a magnetic algae scraper works very well in anchoring the lettuce in place and surgeonfish , angelfish and other herbivores soon become accustomed to feeding in this matter .
13 Aggie turned her head slightly away , took up the knife that was lying to the side of her plate , cut a piece of meat in two , then picked it up with her fingers and ate it ; then she turned to the child and said , ‘ What 's your second name ? ’
14 Cut a piece of felt into two pieces 2cms x 2cms and glue one on top of the other on the back of the bear 's head ( Fig 3 ) .
15 Victor Lewis-Smith killed it , in one of his Time Out columns , with a heartfelt appeal for a gadget which would enable us to break the last tiny piece of poppadam into two equal pieces .
16 He joined the government laboratory in 1897 and , by arrangements recently made for assistants , he attended courses in chemistry at the Royal College of Science for two years , 1897–9 , but did not take his degree .
17 The Court stated that the Defendants should err on the side of preservation for two reasons ; the difficulties of deciding what was a record and then whether it should be retained ; their duty to preserve records for historical purposes .
18 Still , he was proud that his son should be a professor of divinity at two universities , and proud when his son became a bishop .
19 The struggle continues in the light of day in two stories which tell how he , the younger brother , gets the better of Esau .
20 She had completed the agreed term of admission of two months and in accordance with the rules of the institution , the parish officers were asked to remove her ; before they could do so however , Mary Storey had died .
21 Laying of charges against two leading dissidents — Release of dissident writer
22 It was in Geo-related work that we experienced our greatest problems during the year , leading to the closure of our Scottish and Billingham offices , and the reduction of Warrington from two offices to one .
23 ‘ The split of Czechoslovakia into two countries has caused problems in some areas , but there is good co-operation between the two nuclear organisations and it is possible we will be asked to repeat the exercise in Slovakia . ’
24 On Dec. 16 the Czech National Council adopted , by an overwhelming majority , a Constitution for the Czech Republic to come into effect after the split of Czechoslovakia into two independent countries on Jan. 1 , 1993 .
25 Addition of combinations of two NTPs other than GTP plus UTP did not lead to complex-stabilization ( not shown ) , corroborating that these were the two initiating NTPs for both promoters .
26 Six of the eighteen people who participated in the study were recorded as being contacted by other clients for approximately 7 minutes worth in the 11 hour day observed on only one of the datapoints ; one person received this level of contact on two datapoints ; and one other received 26 minutes in 11 hours on one datapoint .
27 These findings are consistent with our early experience , when attempts were made to isolate a 10 cm segment of oesophagus between two occluding balloons in six subjects .
28 A total of 18 structures have been built enabling the new road to cross a variety of obstacles including two railway lines , a major road and a canal .
29 The treatment is successful in 89% of patients and is complete with full recovery of the majority of patients within two to three weeks .
30 It was de Kruif who in 1919 , as a young PhD just returned to the University of Michigan after two years at war , decided on a career that would make more money for himself and his future wife than what he called ‘ microbe hunting ’ .
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