Example sentences of "be [verb] for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Existing employees are refunded for two private survey fees ; new employees are allowed only one . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A meeting has been arranged for two representatives from each institute owning their own halls at the W I centre in Chelmsford on Monday the twenty first October from ten until twelve noon noon . |
| 4 | The new modules have been developed for two groups of students : those returning to S5 for a limited period of time , and those who intend to complete a full year 's programme of study in S5 or S6 . |
| 5 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 6 | She had n't been to work for two nights . |
| 7 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 8 | Thus the Cleveland Dance Orchestra has been booked for two evenings with the Dolphineers . |
| 9 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 10 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 11 | Planning permission has been granted for two ground-floor shops and 16 flats in three adjoining buildings in Church Street , Hartlepool . |
| 12 | Detectives are hunting for two men following a spate of robberies at the homes of old-age pensioners . |
| 13 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 14 | POLICE are searching for two youths who escaped from Castle Huntly young offenders institution in Perthshire last night . |
| 15 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 16 | NEWPORT , who last week suffered the indignity of a record score by the All Blacks in Wales , are looking for two new coaches . |
| 17 | We are looking for two things . |
| 18 | I 'm sure most people know by know , that er this show will be coming to you live from Sydney , Australia , for a whole week to mark Australia Day at the end of January , and er the interesting thing from your point of view , is that we are looking for two couples , can be a husband and wife , er mother and daughter , father and son , any combination really , just a couple of friends . |
| 19 | The police are looking for two men , one of them about 23 , with scruffy black hair , a white shirt and blue jacket and trousers . |
| 20 | Police are looking for two white youths who were seen running away . |
| 21 | Police in York are looking for two sex pests following indecent exposure incidents in Salisbury Terrace and Heslington Road . |
| 22 | Evidence for the effect of tax relief on private health insurance premiums for the over 60s is fairly secure since the scheme has been operating for two years . |
| 23 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 24 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 25 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |
| 26 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 27 | Traditionally reared animals grow more slowly than those reared under intensive farming conditions — they are therefore more mature and are hung for two or three weeks to bring out the flavour . |
| 28 | It 's not been fed for two years has it , so |
| 29 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 30 | I thought ‘ interesting ’ and kept it for pet for about three weeks ; I called it George , and people would give me extra helpings ‘ because you 're eating for two now . ’ |