Example sentences of "two [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was keeping a clean sheet against two terrific attempts by Martin Ling and co . |
| 2 | WOLVES striker Steve Bull blasted two terrific goals against Aston Villa yesterday — to show Ron Atkinson just what he is missing . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , King Hussein also sent two Royal Jordanian mechanics to Bangkok to help us and , in two unbelievable weeks Tim and the mechanics had the Tri-Pacer flying again ! |
| 4 | It was around these two precocious strikers that Torino intended to reclaim their rightful crown as the city 's top club . |
| 5 | There are even two precocious child skaters , who make you realise how long the process of togetherness takes to gell . |
| 6 | The reduction to just the two land-cover categories , concerned with housing , loses only 3 per cent explanation when compared with the Shotgun model . |
| 7 | It begins with two entranced dancers fencing with short bamboos , and ends with the dancers unconscious in the arms of the community , while the bamboos continue dancing on their own as if they were slivers of paper on an electrostatically charged diaphragm . |
| 8 | Grant had suggested that the first action of the night should be the despatch of two armed groups from the road outside Bethlehem House to circle the perimeter fence in opposite directions . |
| 9 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 10 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 11 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 12 | Fryer also alleged that a fellow prisoner , Ronnie Bolden , a car dealer , was claiming his alleged confession to two armed robberies was fabricated . |
| 13 | Angry traders say more police are needed in a village hit by two armed robberies in the space of a week . |
| 14 | This had also been the headquarters of the two armed forces of the Croatian puppet state , the notorious Ustachi and the Croatian Home-Guard , or Domobranci . |
| 15 | Sagadat Nurmagambetov , held two days of talks in Alma Ata which concluded with the signature on Aug. 19 of a military agreement , covering the transfer of personnel between the two armed forces , training , and military co-operation . |
| 16 | Police are stepping up their hunt for two armed raiders who 've kidnapped and threatened shop managers in a spate of robberies . |
| 17 | A body builder who tackled two armed raiders single-handed , after chasing them through the streets in his car has been hailed as a hero . |
| 18 | At one end was a compartment for the two armed guards who always travelled with a consignment of this kind , and in the partition between their compartment and the portion where the bullion was stored , there were portholes , or bull 's eyes , of stout glass , so that the interior was always under their view . |
| 19 | He flashed his security pass under the eyes of the two armed guards posted beside the exit door . |
| 20 | These two armed bandits do not steal their ill-gotten gains . |
| 21 | Kenneth Baker , once more , who refused to resign after two armed IRA prisoners escaped from Brixton prison , even though the police had given the prison authorities five months ' warning . |
| 22 | Two armed IRA suspects , Nessan Quinlivan , 28 , and Pierce McCauley , 25 , escaped from Brixton prison in London on July 7 . |
| 23 | MOSCOW — Nagorny Karabakh , already effectively partitioned between its feuding Armenian and Azerbaijani communities into two armed camps , was yesterday facing further turmoil after the shooting by troops of an Armenian demonstrator in the capital , Stepanakert , on Tuesday , Rupert Cornwell writes . |
| 24 | What is actually meant is that the world is no longer so clearly divided as it was in the 1950s and 1960s into two armed camps of allies , with China , after 1960 , causing something of a schism in the Russian camp . |
| 25 | CNT-inspired strikes between 1931 and 1933 frequently gave rise to clashes between workers and the two armed police forces , the Civil Guard and the Republic 's new Assault Guard . |
| 26 | He is believed to have been one of two armed men who last month hijacked a police car , prompting a manhunt over three Irish counties . |
| 27 | Two armed men had jumped from a car as the money was being carried towards the bank . |
| 28 | Two armed men held a gun to his head and made him drive the bomb to the heart of Westminster after hiring the cab at his office . |
| 29 | In 1372 stipendiaries , and rectors and vicars with benefices worth 10 marks ( or £3 13/ 4d ) , were to come as archers with bows and arrows ; those with livings worth more than £10 had to attend ‘ well armed ’ ; if their living was valued at £20 they had to be accompanied by two archers , if £40 by two armed men and two archers , if £100 by five armed men and six archers . |
| 30 | He gave the two armed men on the slaves ' camp orders not to leave their posts , as he did not want more hands taking advantage of the confusion to run away and join the maroons infesting Oualie nearby . |