Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors paid two shillings per week each to walk several circuits of these paths after taking their curative waters . |
| 2 | The tax was paid by the occupier ( or if a house was empty by the owner ) at the rate of two shillings per hearth in equal instalments at Ladyday and Michaelmas . |
| 3 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 4 | Tillie won the day , dues were reduced to one shilling for English ships , two shillings for foreigners . |
| 5 | The men earn about half a crown per day in summer , and two shillings in winter ’ . |
| 6 | The second incident took place in November when two climbers from Liverpool Polytechnic , also climbing above the Horseshoe Bend area , dislodged another huge block which hit the road within 18 inches of one of the estate 's senior guides . |
| 7 | In your May issue you carried a letter from two climbers from Tunbridge Wells who announced that they had negotiated a season ticket agreement for users of High Rocks . |
| 8 | Azerbaijan launched two offensives on Sept. 18 , one centred on the Lachin corridor which linked Armenia with Nagorny Karabakh through Azerbaijani territory and the other in the north of the enclave around Mardakert ( Agdere ) and Agdam [ for map see p. 38925 ] . |
| 9 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 10 | Two prisoners of conscience in Laos have been held for over 15 years for ‘ re-education ’ . |
| 11 | Execution warrants for March 7 were issued for two prisoners on death row , despite international calls for clemency . |
| 12 | Of two prisoners in goal , one may hang himself , the other go on hunger strike : the former is committing a positive act , the latter an act of passive resistance . |
| 13 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 14 | In a letter to the policy boards of the two institutions on Sept. 18 , the Institute of International Finance ( IIF — representing 184 banks and financial institutions worldwide ) criticized what it saw as IMF " tolerance " of overdue interest payments to the banks , claiming that such arrears discouraged the banks ' involvement in the Brady Plan . |
| 15 | With the two institutions in competition for the audience , their policies converged towards the demands of the audience . |
| 16 | Meri had been criticized for his management of the Foreign Ministry , especially for having dismissed two deputies in February without consulting the Prime Minister . |
| 17 | She was tall , a little on the stout side , and had long brown hair with one or two streaks of grey in it which was caught up in a bun perched on the top of her head . |
| 18 | As with the other two scales of population redistribution surveyed above , the distinction between the inner and outer parts of individual cities and towns in terms of their inhabitants ' relative prosperity is not new , nor is it unique in Britain ( Herbert , 1972 ) . |
| 19 | His biological tinctures and other soluble substances were diluted in a water/alcohol mixture , using two scales of dilution : the 1 in 10 known now as the D or X ( D = decimal , X = 10 ) range of potencies ; and the 1 in 100 , the C ( C = centesimal ) range . |
| 20 | There are two scales of temperature used in science . |
| 21 | Figure 3.1 compares the two scales of temperature . |
| 22 | However , for those wanting a fuller account of the mechanisms of plate movement , McKenzie and Richter ( 1976 ) discuss the possibility of two scales of convection while Boss ( 1983 ) reviews research on the convection question . |
| 23 | Explorations of contemporary feminist artists include Judy Chicago 's ‘ Dinner Party ’ and two essays on Faith Ringgold , on her observations of America in the 1960s ( Lowery Sims ) the other , on Afrocentrism in Ringgold 's work . |
| 24 | The two essays on Stead are among the best here , since they fulfil the reviewer 's prime duty — they make you want to read the books as soon as possible , in the light of the genuine enthusiasm they convey . |
| 25 | The exhibition catalogue contains two essays by Dr Barnett on Kandinsky 's works in private collections and on the works on paper together with an examination of the theoretical basis of the artist 's work by Armin Zweite entitled ‘ Free the line for the inner sound : Kandinsky 's renewal of art in the context of his time ’ . |
| 26 | The care or supervision of children , though not strictly speaking housework , is included because in practice it was impossible to make an adequate distinction between the two activities of housework and child-care . |
| 27 | WACC was directly involved in two activities at IAMCR 's recent conference : the MacBride Round Table and a consultation on Communication Ethics . |
| 28 | THE ACARD report on computer-aided design and manufacture gives two definitions of CAD : Computer-aided draughting : ‘ The use of a computer-based system for translating concepts or sketches into drawings suitable for use in manufacture , or for storing drawings or parts of drawings in a data bank to be available on call for modification , incorporating into a revised drawing , or as input to a subsequent manufacturing process . ’ |
| 29 | From the start , his two definitions of culture , that of a class and that of the whole people , ‘ have to be kept distinct but always in relation ’ . |
| 30 | Of particular interest in this regard are the various UNCITRAL Legal Guides and two projects on principles of contract law undertaken by Unidroit and the Commission on European Contract Law respectively . |