Example sentences of "be [vb pp] for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Existing employees are refunded for two private survey fees ; new employees are allowed only one . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 6 | Thus the Cleveland Dance Orchestra has been booked for two evenings with the Dolphineers . |
| 7 | Planning permission has been granted for two ground-floor shops and 16 flats in three adjoining buildings in Church Street , Hartlepool . |
| 8 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 9 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |
| 10 | Traditionally reared animals grow more slowly than those reared under intensive farming conditions — they are therefore more mature and are hung for two or three weeks to bring out the flavour . |
| 11 | It 's not been fed for two years has it , so |
| 12 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 13 | for year seven , eight parents it is coming , if you like , that at the end of year nine it 's the end of the key stage and it 's an important time de dun da , they 're warned for two successive years . |
| 14 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 15 | '9 In some cases , schools are closed for two or three days a month while the teachers travel to the capital to collect their pay . |
| 16 | In most cases the ribbon cable has the three connectors on it that are needed for two drives . |
| 17 | The top coin shows Henry VII ( 1485-1509 ) ; it is the same generic royal image which had been used for two centuries , as can be seen from the close similarity of the image used by Edward I ( compare fig. 3 ) . |
| 18 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |
| 19 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 20 | The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days . |
| 21 | Although the casualty department has been closed for two years Mr Dale said it was imperative that it is opened because of its close proximity to London 's third airport . |
| 22 | He also promised that the country 's schools — which had been closed for two months because of fears of political violence — would reopen within days , and that a civic work programme would be implemented for Haitian youths . |
| 23 | A special meeting has therefore been called for two weeks time in order to press forward with ideas that could be implemented next season . |
| 24 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 25 | When she emerged , the wall-lights had been dimmed and the polished table by the french windows had been set for two . |
| 26 | First , we were informed that the train would be delayed for two minutes — it was another 10 minutes before we got going . |
| 27 | Examples of the effects of water movement can be given for two predator assemblages which have been altered by water transport ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Government grants to local authorities may be justified for two reasons . |
| 29 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 30 | As part of the agreement ( i ) the 250,000-tonne buffer stock of cocoa beans ( bought in an effort to support prices ) would be frozen for two years ; ( ii ) the levy of US$30 paid by producers on their exports and by consumers on imports from non-ICCO countries would be abolished from April 15 ; ( iii ) producers undertook to attempt to repay the accumulated arrears on levy payments ( amounting to US$140,000,000 ) ; and ( iv ) some of the buffer stock could be sold to raise funds . |