Example sentences of "two had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the US 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act , five conditions had to be met for the lifting of sanctions , of which only two had been met by the time of de Klerk 's visit ( entering into negotiations with black representatives and lifting the ban on democratic parties ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Then last summer Boris Yeltsin publicly admitted that American veterans from Vietnam , Korea and World War Two had been detained in Soviet labour camps , and that some of them were possibly still alive . |
| 3 | Also in April 1991 the two main opposition leaders , Aung San Suu Kyi and Gen. ( retd ) Tin U ( respectively general secretary and chair of the NLD ) were removed from the party ; the two had been detained by the military since mid-1989 . |
| 4 | Four of the Shetlands ' 100 otters — one of the densest populations in Europe — were found dead , but two had been killed by road vehicles and the deaths of the others were not attributed to pollution . |
| 5 | The two had been convicted in October 1989 of extortion and conspiracy ( although acquitted of bribery and the acceptance of illegal gratuities ) from the Wedtech Corporation , a now-defunct defence contractor . |
| 6 | Every few blocks , a building or two had been gutted , walls standing , roofs collapsed , as if random artillery shelling had taken out the commercial heart of the city , leaving a few lucky businesses to struggle on until the next round . |
| 7 | Of the seven who were dead , two had been referred for consideration of liver transplantation . |
| 8 | In addition , five patients with motor neurone disease suffered from swallowing disorders , of whom only two had been assessed . |
| 9 | These revealed that over the past three years , the £700m gap between the two had been reduced to £400m to £500m . |
| 10 | The event , billed as Woodstock Two had been promoted using the world 's largest hot air balloon . |
| 11 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 12 | The two had been arrested on Nov. 26 after being named as chief suspects in the investigation [ see p. 38563 ] . |
| 13 | A table for two had been set in a sort of bower beneath a canopy of spreading palms . |
| 14 | Two had been imprisoned for espionage for the duration of the war ( Enever , tape ) . |
| 15 | The two had been imprisoned in 1982 after attempting to travel abroad . |
| 16 | Relations between the two had been severed in March 1987 following Tunisian accusations that Iran was supporting Islamic groups opposed to the then President Habib Bourguiba . |
| 17 | Three had been dismissed , two had been taken off active duty and the other had been suspended . |
| 18 | Two had been voted out of their top party positions by their district branches and the other two stepped down after pressure from the Central Committee . |