Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The role of these polymorphisms in a predisposition to alcoholic liver disease has now been examined in two studies .
2 I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns .
3 Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms .
4 At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting .
5 By early July the two Meteor F.4s had been joined by two Meteor T.7s ( and a Tiger Moth ! ) and the crews were introduced to the ‘ joys ’ of jet asymmetric flying .
6 Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news .
7 1.21 The plaintiff 's rights in relation to medical examinations by the defendant 's doctor have been redefined in two cases .
8 Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants .
9 The detailed work has been undertaken by two subgroups , also multi agency and with practitioner involvement .
10 A mosaic paving of an early floor has been excavated in two sections .
11 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 .
12 The initial problem is that Major is a Conservative and Clinton is a Democrat , and although party differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship , the problem has been compounded by two incidents during the US election campaign .
13 This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 A WARM welcome to the diocese has been given to two priests .
17 By the time we returned J7 HPC , its pretty yellow nose had been broken in two places .
18 My jaw 's been broken in two places .
19 If no copy of the general practitioner review has been received within two weeks of the prompt a telephone call to the general practitioner is made .
20 She had n't been to work for two nights .
21 After this timewasting procedure , George Shackel related how he and his manservant had been attacked by two labourers in Kings Meadow .
22 And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’
23 However , the qualifying period has now been shortened to two years .
24 This was duly done , and in 1072 Lanfranc wrote an account of the proceedings to the pope , telling him that the whole question of Canterbury 's primacy had been ventilated at two Councils , at Windsor and Winchester .
25 Most Royal Bank third party ATMs are located at ASDA , Safeway , Co-op and William Low supermarkets although terminals have recently been installed at two Gulf Oil petrol stations in Edinburgh .
26 To get this little lot cost us £1.35 , which is n't a lot though , to be honest , it could have been compressed into two windows without losing any usefulness , and cut the price by a third .
27 Thus the Cleveland Dance Orchestra has been booked for two evenings with the Dolphineers .
28 Socially and demographically the period has been dominated by two factors — the fall in the size of families and the increase in the expectation of survival to retirement , the effects of which are still far from having exhausted themselves .
29 The Wine Rack is the jewel in the crown of a 1,000-strong chain of shops which have been reorganised into two groups .
30 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 .
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