Example sentences of "be [adv] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 2 | There are effectively two armies : the regular army and the Republican Guard , identifiable by the red triangle on their uniforms . |
| 3 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |
| 4 | It is rarely inherited , and there are rarely two cases in the same family . |
| 5 | Up to the start of the 1970s , there had really been only two approaches : Idealism and Realism . |
| 6 | If there had been only two men holding Alison in the room , this meant that they 'd left her unguarded and she 'd be able to slip away . |
| 7 | But she had been only two years senior to Harriet . |
| 8 | There are basically two positions that can be taken with respect to this irrevocable split between theory and practice : either Marxism has been shown to be not true , or the Marxism of Stalinist Russia was not proper Marxism . |
| 9 | Unless you are fortunate enough to work for a company that recognises this need , there are basically two options available for that initial promotion . |
| 10 | There are basically two functions for high-bay warehouses : — |
| 11 | There are basically two things to master in learning the intonation of a new language : the basic intonation patterns of the language and any other feature ( like stress ) associated with them |
| 12 | There are basically two types of thief : the opportunist and the pro . |
| 13 | Criminals and other trouble-makers are referred to widely as ‘ gougers ’ : ‘ there are basically two types of people . |
| 14 | There are basically two types of outside sources of competitor information : ( 1 ) those external to the competitor , and ( 2 ) internal competitor sources … |
| 15 | Domestic smoke alarms are basically two types . |
| 16 | There are basically two interpretations , if you like , in a broad sense . |
| 17 | There are basically two ways of controlling erroneous data . |
| 18 | In the case of revenue recognition , there are basically two steps at which a bookkeeping entry might be generated : when the goods sold have been delivered and an invoice has been issued ; and when the goods sold have been delivered and an invoice has been paid The complete cycle would be as follows : |
| 19 | There are basically two kinds of redundancies . |
| 20 | There are basically two kinds of argument and constellations of opinion . |
| 21 | There are perhaps two things upon which each of us is the indisputable world expert , firstly the function of our own bowels and hence those of everyone else and secondly the causes of and treatment for addiction . |
| 22 | With any shock into the body there are only two burns , one where the shock went in and one where it left . |
| 23 | And there are only two slices left . |
| 24 | Now there are only two wings on the aircraft and clearly that is not very efficient . |
| 25 | But when society closes off all other opportunities there are only two choices for the eunuchs : dancing and prostitution . |
| 26 | Printing in colour is a little harder as there are only two colour printers available ; the Tektronix model which uses QuickDraw and the QMS ColorScript 100 which uses the same engine but has the PostScript language as well . |
| 27 | In fact it can well be argued that basically there are only two concepts — rocks and time — with the rest just an obfuscation of the nomenclature . |
| 28 | For some reason there are only two females present . |
| 29 | In certain families of butterflies the fore legs are so much reduced that there are only two pairs of functional legs . |
| 30 | It is clear that there are only two armies . |