Example sentences of "it be [verb] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A substantial part of the trail is already in use ; two units of it are incorporated in two excursions ( to Rutli and to Bauen ) described in this section . |
| 2 | The group and the men associated with it were honoured with two unit citations , a thousand of individual medals and many decorations from allied countries . |
| 3 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |
| 4 | It 's lit with two pairs of five foot Northlight , and Grolux tubes , two 42″ Grolux , and two single 12″ Grolux and triton tubes . |
| 5 | being an hour it 's going onto two hours |
| 6 | It is calculated for two cases : shear deformation and uniaxial stretching and compression . |
| 7 | It is made from two bighorn or deer skins decorated with paint and beadwork , the untrimmed tails ornamenting the middle of the bodice . |
| 8 | As a building it is composed of two parts : the portico and the circular cella . |
| 9 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 10 | It is played between two people in a small arena and the object is to hit the opponent on the head so that his cerebrum thwacks against his skull with sufficient force to cause loss of consciousness . |
| 11 | It is flanked by two towers four storeys high ( one of which has been damaged and has only three storeys left ) . |
| 12 | The internal picture would then look exactly like that for the Hall effect in any normal conducting solid , except that it is limited to two dimensions . |
| 13 | It is locked with two swan shot . |
| 14 | In many cases a natural spray does not seem nearly as attractive when it is presented in two dimensions as it does when seen growing naturally in the wild , when of course it is viewed in three dimensions . |
| 15 | It is built in two colours of brick , pinkish red and slate blue , and is richly embellished with urns and quoin stones . |
| 16 | It is provided with two lenses ; the narrow-angle lens gives a view field measuring approximately 16cm horizontally by 8cm vertically at a viewing distance of one metre . |
| 17 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 18 | The Federation Cup itself was purchased in 1982 for £300 and it is inscribed in two languages , English and French . |
| 19 | This molecule has two possible structures , one within the potassium atom bound to a single oxygen atom and one in which it is attached to two oxygens . |
| 20 | The most exquisite surviving example of cameo glass , it is decorated with two scenes , evidently connected with each other and concerned with love and loss . |
| 21 | It is remarkable first because it is found in two places in almost identical form ( Orientalium Ecclesiarum 5 , and Unitatis Redintegratio 16 ) ; secondly , because in each case , and only here , did the Council use the word ‘ solemnly ’ : it solemnly declares . |
| 22 | It is reflected in two themes that he stressed then , in work reported in the influential set of three papers appearing in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy in the late 1860s . |
| 23 | It is divided into two sections : ‘ Macrocycle synthesis ’ and ‘ Macrocyclic Complexes — Cryptates ’ . |
| 24 | In the Odonata it is divided into two subsegments and among the parasitic Hymenoptera a second apparent trochanter , derived from the base of the femur , is present ( see p. 1185 ) . |
| 25 | My first car was a twin-carburettor Singer sports car , bright red with a silvery grey hood shaped from part of a wartime barrage balloon ; it was supported by two metal frames shaped like ice hockey goals . |
| 26 | It has also scaled down payouts for redundancies , so as not to exceed the $1.5bn restructuring charge it was hit with two months ago . |
| 27 | It was flanked by two towers and its entrance was reached only by a narrow stairway , but by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a fortress . |
| 28 | It was played on two radio stations , but there was no surrender . |
| 29 | In 14th century it was split into two portions , one held by the Carents , the other by the Talbots of Godlingston . |
| 30 | It was reached by two miles of track through a tunnel along the banks of the Seine from the Gare d'Austerlitz . |