Example sentences of "is [conj] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | since the poles of this function are given by where p is any integer including zero , which is equivalent to rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane reveals that the transfer function to be provided is or Two reactive components are needed to achieve second-order response and so the relevant low-pass filter in conjunction with the load resistance R is as shown in figure 12.2(a) . |
| 2 | The point is that two guards were sacrificed by the authorities in order to achieve this control situation . |
| 3 | Another straw the optimists grasp is that two trade disputes between the EC and the United States have been headed off . |
| 4 | In reproduction , one cell turns into two , whereas the essential feature of the sexual process is that two cells fuse to form one . |
| 5 | It is that two years , two and a quarter years ago I established a procedure in the Labour Party … ( uproar from audience ) . |
| 6 | The common outcome of these age discriminatory elements of the social security system is that two people with equally severe disabilities receive widely differing benefits and total incomes simply as a result of their age , and will continue to do so under the Government 's recent proposals . |
| 7 | The implication is that two injections are better than one , which is not always true , and that less strict glycaemic control is acceptable with a shorter expected lifespan , which seems reasonable . |
| 8 | It is interesting to note that in a guidance booklet produced by the Royal College of Nursing , the assumption throughout is that two people will be lifting a person out of a chair or bed . |
| 9 | What is happening is that two bones in the body are being pulled together and are wearing each other out . |
| 10 | Whenever the result of the development of node k is that two new branches are grown , the up- and down-nodes are assigned values of and ( where x r is the branching variable ) respectively . |
| 11 | What happens is that two companies virtually control distribution — Menzies and W H Smith . |
| 12 | The good news from the Beacon Centre is that two of the men who have been coming along have committed their lives to Jesus . |
| 13 | With tuck the normal rule is that two needles side by side should n't tuck . |
| 14 | The second possibility McTaggart considers is that two mental states ‘ belong to the same self when , and only when , the same living body ( or what appears as such ) stands in a certain relation of causality to both of them ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ The story is that two other clients of Martinez , ’ and Fearnley named two tennis players who were well-known for their skill at ladies ' doubles and notorious within tennis for their lesbian activities , ‘ were detailed to pursue Mary-Ann . |
| 16 | Another is that two people may have conflicting beliefs about which course of action to perform . |
| 17 | A difficulty with both these methods is that two different binary patterns represent zero , so that testing for zero becomes slightly more complicated . |
| 18 | In the situation given by demand curve D 2 , the implication is that two controls would be needed to ensure that the industry engaged in socially optimal performance ( see below ) . |
| 19 | It is that two lexical units will be assigned to the same lexeme if there exists a lexical rule which permits the prediction of the existence of the sense of one of them from the existence of the sense of the other . |
| 20 | The second is that two normal observers viewing the same object or scene from the same place will ‘ see ’ the same thing . |
| 21 | The disadvantage is that two distinct operations ( polymerase chain reaction and restriction cleavage ) are required . |
| 22 | A third possibility is that two of you have completed our Fal Sail course earlier in the year . |
| 23 | What also remains a tantalising possibility is that two circles include a milestone as a marker . |
| 24 | Another property of curved spaces is that two nearby and initially parallel geodesics do not continue parallel indefinitely , but converge or diverge depending on the local curvature . |
| 25 | Also , a small point but one worth making , is that two coats of paint should suffice with today 's quality of paint . |
| 26 | What we do know is that two or three groups are involved and the sale could well turn into an auction … there 's local and national interest and at least one very well known figure is in the market to buy … speculation has named Virgin boss Richard Branson again … but his office said this afternoon he was n't in the running … |
| 27 | Having watched both the East End Park team and Kilmarnock in action against Raith this month , my guess is that two teams from Fife will compete in the Premier Division for the first time next season — provided Dunfermline get their act together in defence . |
| 28 | My feeling is that two separate matters sometimes get mixed up : the practice and study of connected speech is agreed by everyone to be of great importance , but this can sometimes result in some relatively unimportant aspects of speech ( e.g. assimilation , juncture ) being given more emphasis than they should . |
| 29 | The thing is that two people this morning came to do their grave . |
| 30 | 185 Squadron now moved to Takali alongside the newly-arrived unit with its own remaining ten Mark Is and two Mark IIs , leaving Luqa and Hal Far free for the time being for use as staging airfields to Egypt , and as bases for the bombers and reconnaissance aircraft . |