Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At VAG and Associated British Ports , employees are given two days ' special leave at the time of the move . |
| 2 | Pre-school children , presented with novel verbs describing unfamiliar actions , are given two types of input : cognitively available indications of argument structure , and syntactic indications of argument structure . |
| 3 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 7 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 8 | You have been given two years not only to investigate historical thinking and knowledge but also to practise the dynamic process of essay writing . |
| 9 | The vicar who keeps more than fifty animals in his garden has been given two weeks to get rid of them . |
| 10 | The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years . |
| 11 | There 's a stand-pipe that 's been erected two streets over that way , ’ she said , pointing . |
| 12 | In the central panel are depicted two wrestling Cupids , watched by a species of large bird ; this is enclosed by , a single dark line and is bordered by a chain-guilloche with " tongues " . |
| 13 | The route had been reopened two weeks previously following an attack in January when two people were killed . |
| 14 | In Russia that introduced in 1859 had been sat two years later by a mere five candidates in all . |
| 15 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 16 | Marathon had already been granted two production licenses in the western edge of Cardigan Bay and St George 's Channel , West Wales . |
| 17 | He claimed half-hour warnings to the Samaritans and police in Merseyside had been made two minutes after the bombs were planted . |
| 18 | Agreed , the appointment had been made two months ago . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You must have , you , you must have you keep telling me that you 're doing all these extra hours and you 're owed two weeks ' holiday |
| 22 | We have the stories first usually before you and they 're allowed two stories each and if they have any more then it 's up to you . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Judith and Patrick are told two days after the eagerly-awaited birth of their first baby , that he is suffering from Down 's Syndrome — he is a mongol . |
| 25 | marketing , he 's been offered two D's |
| 26 | Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago . |
| 27 | Father Barnes said that the Little Vestry had last been used two days ago on Monday the sixteenth when the Parochial Church Council had met as usual at five thirty , immediately after Evensong . |
| 28 | On the left are shown two theories of the relationships amongst modern animals . |
| 29 | The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number . |
| 30 | They are mounted two models to a base , and both models get their own attack . |