Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining third has now effectively been chopped into two pieces with the formation of a computer systems arm , Control Data Systems Inc , CDS , and Ceridian Corp , the rump of its software and computer services business . |
| 2 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 3 | It 's all been condensed into two hours , and they 've even built a replica set of city gates over an old railway bridge . |
| 4 | It is Horsey Mere , and the causeway across it ( the Wade ) can only be crossed within two hours each way of low tide . |
| 5 | Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions . |
| 6 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 7 | This ‘ determined hostility of the Socialist Party generally and of the Trade Union movement in particular ’ which Leo Amery later described as a ‘ curious feature ’ ( Amery , 1955 , p. 206 ) of the movement for family allowances can perhaps be explained by two factors . |
| 8 | He celebrated his election victory with a greasy knife and fork and a snooze : fried eggs , bacon , sausage and fried bread at 8am were followed by two hours in bed . |
| 9 | By the time the Master himself arrived in London to be examined in August 1669 , he had already been suspended for two months past by the Chancellor of the Archbishop of York until the controversy could be settled . |
| 10 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 11 | The UKAEA had already been working on two prototypes — a high temperature successor to the AGR ( called the Dragon ) and the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor , another uniquely British concept . |
| 12 | Interruptible tariffs will soon be tested in two years of field trials costing about £1.5 million . |
| 13 | Then from ( 4 ) we obtain unc The reciprocation of A may thus be effected through two reciprocations of order m , instead of the much more laborious single reciprocation of order 2m . |
| 14 | Since the Norwegian constitution did not allow the early dissolution of parliament , attempts to form a new government had quickly been reduced to two options , a Conservative or a Labour minority administration . |
| 15 | Also lacking through routes , as well as extending over seventy miles , Sussex has always been administered in two divisions with two county towns , of which the second , Lewes , was similar in size to Chichester , though less prosperous at this time in having far fewer affluent burgesses and no well-paid artificers . |
| 16 | No matter which part of the world you might be travelling in , if you enter a Holiday Inn , you can always be assured of two things . |
| 17 | Twenty-four passengers were still being detained in two Dublin hospitals last night with fractures , and one with spinal injuries . |
| 18 | Sentence was suspended until Sept. 25 on Sir Jack Lyons , an independent financier , who had also been convicted on two conspiracy charges , three false accounting charges and one theft charge . |
| 19 | I 've also been presented with two awards , although I 'm not sure whether I deserve them . |
| 20 | New paintings by Julian Schnabel manage to fill both of Pace gallery 's spaces this month ( the 57th Stret show until 30 May and the Greene Street one until 5 June ) , and works by Georg Baselitz may also be seen at two places : works from the Seventies are at Michael Werner until 6 June and a selection of watercolours , pastels and drawings at Matthew Marks ( 2 May–26 June ) . |
| 21 | Such procedures can also be applied in two dimensions by providing nine spatial zones about the primary space together with the four boundary excursions ( see Figure 2.12 ) . |
| 22 | Its lift on , lift-off operations there will now also be spread across two container terminals and an inland storage site . |
| 23 | This is a good song because it not only has actions but can also be sung by two groups at the same time . |
| 24 | The final two Ipswich cases were somewhat exceptional : one was a woman who was very difficult to find at home ; she was also being helped by two neighbours of whose motives the development officer and others in the psychogeriatric team , were suspicious . |
| 25 | For example , the writing of Rosalind Krauss has mainly been published in two journals , the American October and the French Macuba , both advancing a special interpretation of twentieth-century art . |
| 26 | The role of these polymorphisms in a predisposition to alcoholic liver disease has now been examined in two studies . |
| 27 | These schemes , which originally ran for one year , have now been extended to two years . |
| 28 | However , the qualifying period has now been shortened to two years . |
| 29 | These had originally been delivered in two batches , 46 to the London UniteD and 54 to the MetropolitaN tramways . |
| 30 | A written report submitted by R. Amos states that the club will now be run in two sections — a ) Younger members aged up to 14 years on a Wednesday and b ) Over 14 on Thursday . |