Example sentences of "two [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He flashed his security pass under the eyes of the two armed guards posted beside the exit door . |
| 2 | At the end of the day , two exhausted teams piled into cars for the drive back home from the skirmish site in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | The cancellation , formally announced the following day , was indicative of the dramatic improvement in relations between the two Korean states achieved in December 1991 [ see pp. 38659-60 ] . |
| 4 | Blank pages with two broad margins drawn on them should be inserted for the day 's notes . |
| 5 | Within the pulse period of 102ms , the γ -emission forms a single broad peak , in contrast to the two narrow peaks seen in the other high-energy γ -ray pulsars . |
| 6 | There are two spacious bedrooms furnished as bed-sitting-rooms with arm-chairs , table and colour TV . |
| 7 | Senior ministerial posts were also given to a former Environment Minister , Padraig Flynn , and two junior ministers dismissed with Reynolds in November , Maire Geoghegan Quinn and Michael Smith . |
| 8 | Two angled rings clamped together on the lathe ( below ) . |
| 9 | But they are not eager to pitch into two helpless dummies strapped to chairs . |
| 10 | POLICE last night appealed to outraged Merseyside communities to stay calm as two ten-year-old boys prepared to face a court today accused of the murder of two-year-old James Bulger . |
| 11 | Lawyers representing the two ten-year-old boys accused of murdering two-year-old James waived their right to an independent autopsy . |
| 12 | Among his successors as Duke of Aquitaine only Richard is known to have written verse and certainly neither of the two surviving poems attributed to him is of this quality . |
| 13 | On the eve of the congress two political groups described as being on the right of the revolutionary spectrum , the National Convention of Progressive Patriots ( CNPP ) and the Union of Democrats and Patriots of Burkina ( UDPB ) , were allowed to join the Front , which now consisted of four national unions and seven political groups . |
| 14 | In the 1985/6 Westland Affair two political opponents deployed the media as part of their armoury but , in the event , both were forced to resign as the affair gained a momentum of its own . |
| 15 | The National Republic Convention ( NRC ) , the more right-wing of the two political parties created by the military government in 1990 , won 16 of the 30 state governorships and gained control of the assemblies in 13 states ; its opponent , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) won control of 16 assemblies , including those in three states — Lagos , Katsina and Cross River — where the NRC won the gubernatorial poll . |
| 16 | Registration of membership for the two political parties set up by the government to participate in the transition to civilian rule , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) , closed on May 5 , 1990 [ for their creation in October 1989 see p. 36968 ] . |
| 17 | Dr Jackie Cornish , the hospital 's transplant co-ordinator , has said there are at least two possible donors lined up following a search of the national bone marrow registers . |
| 18 | Dr Jackie Cornish , the hospital 's transplant co-ordinator , has said there are at least two possible donors lined up following a search of the national bone marrow registers . |
| 19 | And it was a major problem of finance it seems to me when you 've two possible avenues left to take . |
| 20 | Thereafter Edward III , having learned some valuable political lessons , was able to develop a far greater degree of co-operation with his people , in particular with the fighting nobility , a spirit fostered by the two outstanding victories won at Crécy and Poitiers . |
| 21 | They 're all old ones except two that Fender made in the Custom Shop in California . |
| 22 | Two fifteenth-century icons set in beaten silver , studded with amethyst and quartz . |
| 23 | The Vatican in December 1989 ordered the closure in Recife on the east coast of two progressive seminaries founded by the former Archbishop of Olinda and Recife , the Most Rev. Helder Câmara . |
| 24 | The turkish bath and the gymnasium are no longer used , though the fixtures and some of the fittings remain ; horses are no longer kept ; and the private mooring currently has no boats other than two oared dinghies used for fishing . |
| 25 | On June 8 Nabbi Berri offered to exchange the 300 Arabs held by Israel for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon . |
| 26 | Following the two multimeter add-ons described in the last two instalments of Circuit Surgery , several readers have suggested that a simple device for directly measuring capacitance would be extremely useful . |
| 27 | Fabric strip with regular rings and two enclosed cords used for shirring blinds like the Austrian or Festoon variety . |
| 28 | Two private shareholders called on Sir Derek Alun-Jones , Ferranti 's chairman , to resign at the company 's reconvened annual meeting yesterday . |
| 29 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 30 | The west front is vertical in emphasis with two tall towers capped by Gothic spires and with a plain façade decorated only by round-headed windows and doorways ( 265 and 398 ) . |