Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that he also used birds as his trademark and a carving at Trull in Somerset shows a large ‘ W ’ supported by two birds thought to be woodpecker ; a medieval pun ? |
| 2 | The two inputs have to be combined or associated in time in the same sort of way that conditioning and unconditioned stimuli have to be combined for association learning to occur . |
| 3 | Originally , the lymphocyte function associated LFA-3 ( CD58 ) glycoprotein was identified as the CD2 ligand ; these were the first two molecules shown to be involved in heterophilic adhesion and their interaction is likely to be a paradigm for adhesion interactions within the IgSF . |
| 4 | There are two splinters waiting to be removed and one cut thumb soaking in the Women 's Dressing Room . |
| 5 | Only with the passage of time did the two channels come to be seen widely as part of a single public service system . |
| 6 | This year , gratifyingly , the number taking part had doubled , so that two sessions had to be held . |
| 7 | Two methods tend to be used in this type of kidnapping : the woman may impersonate a nurse , giving the mother a bogus reason for taking her baby out of the room , or she may take the neonate from the nursery when nursing staff are not in the immediate area . |
| 8 | A partnership practice that operated from two offices ceased to be carried on when the partnership was dissolved and the two main equity partners continued as sole practitioners from their respective offices . |
| 9 | The two exchangers seem to be coupled indirectly via changes in pH i ; a rise in pH i resulting from stimulation of apical Na + /H + exchange activates apical Cl - /HCO 3 - exchange via its OH - sensitive modifier site , as recently shown in apical membrane vesicles from ileum and colon . |
| 10 | The price in Japan for SoftBench is $5,400 , and the two companies hope to be able to sell over 2,000 copies a year . |
| 11 | The price in Japan for SoftBench is $5,400 , and the two companies hope to be able to sell over 2,000 copies a year . |
| 12 | Yet , between the upper strata of the landed aristocracy and the wealthiest members of the industrial and commercial society there were many links ; and gradually these two elements came to be joined together in a single ruling group … |
| 13 | The two elements need to be understood as distinct and often disjointed moments of state policy . |
| 14 | The argument usually goes that because the nature of effective production ( e.g. stable , rigid , discipline-oriented ) and the nature of effective R & D ( e.g. fluid , organic , creativity-oriented ) are so diametrically opposed , the two functions have to be managed by entirely different principles . |
| 15 | According to Mr Dieter Brauninger , an economist at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt , the newcomers could not have arrived at a better time : a period of dynamic growth , when gaps created by the fall in the birth rate in the past two decades need to be filled . |
| 16 | Two hypotheses need to be considered . |
| 17 | From January 1991 trade between the two countries had to be paid in fully convertible currency so that by April the value of exports to the Soviet Union had fallen by almost 60 per cent compared with a year previously . |
| 18 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 19 | Our two countries need to be friends . |
| 20 | Sir , it 's our submission and the evidence of what you have heard and what you will see , that the two sites proposed to be excluded from the greenbelt are functionally part of the village , and distinct from the land the open agricultural land to the north , and are visually a part of the village , unrelated to the open countryside to the north . |
| 21 | Alternatively two bays had to be treated as one . |
| 22 | He said that the two elephants had to be kept apart and they were increasingly confined to avoid fighting . |
| 23 | The two versions need to be distinguished because their practical implications are different . |
| 24 | However , a greater proportion of secondary school teachers than either of the other two phases tend to be unsure about whether any of these changes have come about as a direct result of the review and report . |
| 25 | On the other hand , I have seen some country- made chairs where the ‘ rule of thumb ’ definitely took precedence over the ruler , and no two angles seem to be the same . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better have my two dogs done to be on the safe side . |
| 27 | Instead , the social distance between the two dogs needs to be accentuated . |
| 28 | The differences between the two buildings seem to be mainly differences of style and emphasis , not differences of overall purpose . |
| 29 | Two llamas had to be rescued from an ‘ island ’ in Dartmoor . |
| 30 | Whether attitudes to this change or remain , two questions remain to be answered by embalmers , the potential cryogenic technician of the future . |