Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [vb pp] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the scheme , each branch has been set two targets in the current quarter . |
| 2 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 3 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 4 | The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number . |
| 5 | The committee had been established two years earlier by the Wilson Government in response to widespread indignation about rate increases imposed by the new councils in 1974 . |
| 6 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 7 | The opera has been finished two years ahead of schedule , but for productions of this scale that time is needed just for design and casting . |
| 8 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 9 | Agreed , the appointment had been made two months ago . |
| 10 | As a matter of authenticity , and given that the appointment had been made two months ago and that perhaps Mr Gajdusek might need a little reminder , she took the letter from its envelope while , his touch again tingling , again gentle , he smoothed some cream over her bruises . |
| 11 | His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them . |
| 12 | ‘ When the cortege arrived a grave ear-marked , I think , for one of the Kavanagh sisters had been opened two doors down from Patrick 's , which at this stage had a wooden crucifix made and erected by Peter and crazy pavings which I gather were stepping stones from a stream on the homestead and mentioned in one of the poems . |
| 13 | He claimed half-hour warnings to the Samaritans and police in Merseyside had been made two minutes after the bombs were planted . |
| 14 | The circumlocution obscured the compelling fact that the earlier Bill had been abandoned two months after the outbreak of war with Germany . |
| 15 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 16 | The vicar who keeps more than fifty animals in his garden has been given two weeks to get rid of them . |
| 17 | There was a lot of stuff in there I did n't understand , such as ‘ MM ’ and ‘ TT ’ and ‘ JS ’ , mostly in the form of cryptic notes after a company name , though even I worked out that ‘ BB ’ meant Big Bang , when the City had been deregulated two years before . |
| 18 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 19 | The route had been reopened two weeks previously following an attack in January when two people were killed . |
| 20 | His mission had been planned two years ago when he worked well with stablemate Balthus , the 1987 Cambridgeshire winner , and Glover promises he has something else in the yard to continue the trend in two years . |
| 21 | THE Old School House Restaurant , West Street , Alresford has been awarded two rosettes by the AA 's 1992 Restaurant Guide . |