Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] two " in BNC.

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1 Existing employees are refunded for two private survey fees ; new employees are allowed only one .
2 The role of these polymorphisms in a predisposition to alcoholic liver disease has now been examined in two studies .
3 I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns .
4 By early July the two Meteor F.4s had been joined by two Meteor T.7s ( and a Tiger Moth ! ) and the crews were introduced to the ‘ joys ’ of jet asymmetric flying .
5 Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms .
6 At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting .
7 Few mistakes are admitted to , and events which do n't reflect well upon him , like the highly dramatic resignations of the Navy Minister and chief of Naval Staff in protest at his decision to scrap aircraft carriers , are dismissed in two illuminating sentences .
8 Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news .
9 1.21 The plaintiff 's rights in relation to medical examinations by the defendant 's doctor have been redefined in two cases .
10 The piazzetta is formed by the Palazzo Reale , the royal palace ( some pedants would say the ex -royal palace and its irregular shape is produced by the off-line main section of the building ; the two ‘ arms ’ of the square are completed by two wings of the palace .
11 When the four CO ligands are treated as two sets of two , it is immediately clear that as each pair is related by the C 2 axis , there must be an a 1 and a b component from each pair .
12 In the subgroup of patients who are treated with two injections daily , adequate gall bladder concentration might also be achieved after dinner .
13 Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants .
14 Research into the history of corporate finance during the period before 1914 has been limited by two major difficulties .
15 The detailed work has been undertaken by two subgroups , also multi agency and with practitioner involvement .
16 I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business .
17 A mosaic paving of an early floor has been excavated in two sections .
18 The World Cup finalists Ruggeri , Batista , Pumpido , Olarticochea , Giusti and Burruchaga are joined by two newcomers , Dezotti in attack and Simon at libero .
19 The World Cup finalists — Ruggeri , Batista , Pumpido , Olarticochea , Giusti and Burruchaga — are joined by two newcomers , Dezotti in attack and Simon at libero .
20 It 's been announced that seventy jobs are to go at two research establishments — A-E-A Technology is laying off forty maintenance staff at Harwell , and thirty engineers at nearby Culham .
21 A ballerina 's performances are limited to two a month , and so-called critics are ‘ dictated ’ what to write , so that she does n't get ideas .
22 The explanation is that — inaccurately but mercifully ! — calculations under the senatorial rules are limited to two places of decimals .
23 You are reminded that members are limited to two minutes in asking their questions .
24 However , we can identify different pitch possibilities in the head , though these are limited to two which we will call high head and low head .
25 But , he continues , animals are limited in two fundamental ways :
26 In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance .
27 The nodes are partitioned into two sets : the visible nodes V , which behave as input/output links , and the hidden nodes H which are involved only in calculation .
28 The initial problem is that Major is a Conservative and Clinton is a Democrat , and although party differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship , the problem has been compounded by two incidents during the US election campaign .
29 This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured .
30 Particular services are examined by two writers closely involved with implementation : Nick Raynsford looks it recent developments in policies on housing , and David Mallen considers how education might effectively be used as a key instrument of social improvement .
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