Example sentences of "be that [art] two [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position now seems to be that the two offences have the same legal definition , and that the prosecution should prefer the charge of manslaughter when the case is a bad one which might merit a sentence in excess of the five-year maximum for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 2 | The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease . |
| 3 | Pam Royle , Tyne Tees presenter : ‘ My first reaction is that the two companies merged is good news in terms of what will be seen on the screen . |
| 4 | The basic reason for such sterility is that the two parents contain different numbers of chromosomes . |
| 5 | Robin Dunbar ( personal communication ) is of the opinion that the reason why this happens in gelada is that the two males strike a bargain , as it were . |
| 6 | The rule is that the two plugs fit together so that black wires are in the middle — if you are in any doubt then seek assistance or use a voltmeter to check the power supply . |
| 7 | The reason it thinks your 486SX is a 386 is that the two processors do share many common features , it just that one is a lot more powerful than the other . |
| 8 | Another strange point of the mystery is that the two men claimed that the smoke came out of the tunnel mouth towards the station yet a breeze was blowing the other way . |
| 9 | One explanation for this is that the two bodies constituting Pluto were originally moons of Neptune , but that something tore them from the giant planet 's grasp — the converse of what is thought to have happened to Triton ! |
| 10 | The difficulty is that the two contributions made opposite points . |
| 11 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |