Example sentences of "two [noun pl] have [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last two summers have been very hot and dry , although this summer has luckily been a great deal better . |
| 2 | The two solicitors had been very busy dashing round Orkney gathering character witnesses . |
| 3 | ‘ The last two performances have been very uncharacteristic of us . |
| 4 | ‘ Figures over the past two months have been suspiciously strong , unbelievably strong . |
| 5 | The traditional view is that labour relations at the two companies have been very different , Longbridge having materialistic ‘ affluent workers ’ , Cadburys being run by ‘ paternalistic ’ employers . |
| 6 | ‘ The past two weeks have been pretty scary . |
| 7 | Traditionally the two things have been very separate . |
| 8 | Professor Geoffrey Codd , a microbiologist from Dundee University and expert on blue-green algae said two cadets had been seriously ill and were detained in hospital for a week . |
| 9 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 10 | And the descriptions of the two men have been too varied to give much help to detectives . |
| 11 | To a large extent these two approaches have been mutually exclusive , not to say antagonistic . |
| 12 | The other two interviews had been more remarkable . |