Example sentences of "[be] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they are , because there 're two things in them , they 're quite strong . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're two adults , we 're mature , we can make rational decisions about our lives . ’ |
| 3 | But , as you said once , we 're two adults and I have several more days here . |
| 4 | ‘ Come on , Aurora — we 're two adults , and , whether you like it or not , we 're in this thing together now . |
| 5 | We 're two adults . |
| 6 | When you go along a , just before you turn round as if a , you 're going towards Lumsbury they 're two pairs of semi-detached . |
| 7 | If it 's like the one we lived in , cos when I , I lived at home with mum and dad we lived in Craigan Road and they 're two rooms . |
| 8 | Your transcription is shorter , cos they 're two sides . |
| 9 | That 's about him and Peter , they 're two men who could do it . |
| 10 | But as far as we 're concerned , they 're two patients with injuries that need treatment and that 's how we see them . |
| 11 | But , no wait a minute cos they 're two issues ! |
| 12 | Nothing much between the two teams on form … they 're two places and eight points apart … both are in the frame for the play-off places but the promotion race has a long way to go yet … |
| 13 | When the signs are the same if they 're two pluses you add them and it 's plus if they 're both minus you add them and it 's minus here you take the smaller from the larger and give it the sign of a larger . |
| 14 | Commenting on Storage Technology Corp 's proposed acquisition of Amperif Corp ( see front ) EMC Corp chairman said the development , and IBM Corp 's new storage products pose no threat to his company : ‘ We 're two years ahead of everybody , ’ Egan told Reuter in a telephone interview from his Hopkinton , Massachusetts headquarters ; he said that EMC has shipped 2,000 of its disk array storage devices over the past two years — and the Amperif deal means ‘ one fewer competitor . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They 're two years old maximum . |
| 17 | they 're not , they 're not solid glass , they 're two panes , which could be separated whether of ingenuity and |
| 18 | Using the notation of 2.3.4 let s and t be two elements of Zn . |
| 19 | For Public Relations there must be two elements in the package , creativity and originality . |
| 20 | There seem to me to be two problems with this line of argument ( which is essentially that speech is ‘ role-appropriate ’ and that gender is a major determinant of role ) . |
| 21 | There should be two heaters — not heaterstats — in this tank , ideally governed by an external thermostat so that if one overheats they are switched off , and if one fails the other will probably maintain a safe heat . |
| 22 | ‘ It sends out the wrong signal that there should be two groups on the board of directors — the doers and the checkers , ’ said Peter Morgan , the IoD 's director general . |
| 23 | There would be two effects : the dependent financial relationships between husbands and wives would be considerably loosened , and unmarried women with dependants would have a substantial non-means-tested income as of right . |
| 24 | There seem to be two reasons for this differential response to the human capital theory : education in Cuba extends beyond the classroom to the fields and the factories , while in capitalist countries it is restricted to the classroom . |
| 25 | There are said to be two reasons for referring the valuation of a company 's shares to its auditors . |
| 26 | There would seem to be two components to this notion . |
| 27 | There us used to be two sticks . |
| 28 | Corms should be two inches below ground , indented side upwards . |
| 29 | Unfortunately they turned out to be two fools who did n't realise the time , and brought Mountain Rescue out combing the hill for them next morning . |
| 30 | I 've still got plen Well er that will be two boys , a lady giver , cos you have to find people who give stamps as well as . |