Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 2 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 3 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 4 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 5 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 6 | You have been given two years not only to investigate historical thinking and knowledge but also to practise the dynamic process of essay writing . |
| 7 | The vicar who keeps more than fifty animals in his garden has been given two weeks to get rid of them . |
| 8 | The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years . |
| 9 | There 's a stand-pipe that 's been erected two streets over that way , ’ she said , pointing . |
| 10 | The route had been reopened two weeks previously following an attack in January when two people were killed . |
| 11 | In Russia that introduced in 1859 had been sat two years later by a mere five candidates in all . |
| 12 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 13 | Marathon had already been granted two production licenses in the western edge of Cardigan Bay and St George 's Channel , West Wales . |
| 14 | He claimed half-hour warnings to the Samaritans and police in Merseyside had been made two minutes after the bombs were planted . |
| 15 | Agreed , the appointment had been made two months ago . |
| 16 | As a matter of authenticity , and given that the appointment had been made two months ago and that perhaps Mr Gajdusek might need a little reminder , she took the letter from its envelope while , his touch again tingling , again gentle , he smoothed some cream over her bruises . |
| 17 | There was a lot of stuff in there I did n't understand , such as ‘ MM ’ and ‘ TT ’ and ‘ JS ’ , mostly in the form of cryptic notes after a company name , though even I worked out that ‘ BB ’ meant Big Bang , when the City had been deregulated two years before . |
| 18 | ‘ When the cortege arrived a grave ear-marked , I think , for one of the Kavanagh sisters had been opened two doors down from Patrick 's , which at this stage had a wooden crucifix made and erected by Peter and crazy pavings which I gather were stepping stones from a stream on the homestead and mentioned in one of the poems . |
| 19 | marketing , he 's been offered two D's |
| 20 | Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago . |
| 21 | Father Barnes said that the Little Vestry had last been used two days ago on Monday the sixteenth when the Parochial Church Council had met as usual at five thirty , immediately after Evensong . |
| 22 | The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number . |
| 23 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 24 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 25 | Tony Chivers reported that a number of villagers had volunteered to be footpath representatives and had been allocated two paths each , which they had agreed to walk at least twice a year . |
| 26 | Under the scheme , each branch has been set two targets in the current quarter . |
| 27 | The circumlocution obscured the compelling fact that the earlier Bill had been abandoned two months after the outbreak of war with Germany . |
| 28 | I mean this this this item has actually been deferred two meetings and |
| 29 | Joe Royle should have been appointed two years ago . |
| 30 | At least it might have done if its launch had n't been followed two days later by the scandalous sentencing of drink-driver Christopher Hart . |