Example sentences of "two had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The lawyer insisted that relations between the two had been normal . |
| 3 | By the time London Transport took them over in 1933 , all but two had been so modified . |
| 4 | Two had been imprisoned for espionage for the duration of the war ( Enever , tape ) . |
| 5 | These revealed that over the past three years , the £700m gap between the two had been reduced to £400m to £500m . |
| 6 | The elder of the two had been coming to the house for nigh on fifteen years . |
| 7 | One member of the staff team of nine had nursing training ; two had been teachers and the rest were from a variety of other backgrounds . |
| 8 | In addition , five patients with motor neurone disease suffered from swallowing disorders , of whom only two had been assessed . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 part of the Rentokil team on ‘ operation cleanout ’ . |
| 13 | The other two had been trying to rescue him when all three had been killed by a single well-placed mortar bomb . |
| 14 | And to add to her joy , Hilda took her to meet sister Lena as the two had been able to keep in touch . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The two had been arrested on Nov. 26 after being named as chief suspects in the investigation [ see p. 38563 ] . |
| 20 | Three had been dismissed , two had been taken off active duty and the other had been suspended . |
| 21 | The two had been imprisoned in 1982 after attempting to travel abroad . |
| 22 | Two of these had earlier been the subject of the intensive case studies ( see Chapter 4 ) ; two had been involved in piloting the questionnaire and the head of another declined to take part in the survey on the grounds that he was just then attempting to introduce a scheme of SSE of his own devising . |
| 23 | Of the seven who were dead , two had been referred for consideration of liver transplantation . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A table for two had been set in a sort of bower beneath a canopy of spreading palms . |
| 26 | The event , billed as Woodstock Two had been promoted using the world 's largest hot air balloon . |
| 27 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 28 | The prosecution said that the two had been out drinking and had started to fight when they came home . |