Example sentences of "it be [verb] [prep] two [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's lit with two pairs of five foot Northlight , and Grolux tubes , two 42″ Grolux , and two single 12″ Grolux and triton tubes . |
| 4 | being an hour it 's going onto two hours |
| 5 | It is calculated for two cases : shear deformation and uniaxial stretching and compression . |
| 6 | As a building it is composed of two parts : the portico and the circular cella . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is flanked by two towers four storeys high ( one of which has been damaged and has only three storeys left ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is built in two colours of brick , pinkish red and slate blue , and is richly embellished with urns and quoin stones . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Federation Cup itself was purchased in 1982 for £300 and it is inscribed in two languages , English and French . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is divided into two sections : ‘ Macrocycle synthesis ’ and ‘ Macrocyclic Complexes — Cryptates ’ . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In 14th century it was split into two portions , one held by the Carents , the other by the Talbots of Godlingston . |
| 23 | It was reached by two miles of track through a tunnel along the banks of the Seine from the Gare d'Austerlitz . |
| 24 | It was made of two coats of arms on one vertically divided shield . |
| 25 | But one day in late summer , when I was pointing the otter out to my passengers , and as usual it got up to move out of sight , I saw to my surprise that it was followed by two cubs ! |
| 26 | It was based upon two principles : 1 . |
| 27 | It was built with two wings , one for men and one for women , separated by a chapel . |
| 28 | The former is of unusual design as it was built in two storeys ( largely in the fourteenth century ) , one church above the other . |
| 29 | All I can say is that it was edited by two women , it 's being promoted by a third , it 's being marketed by a fourth , the rights were sold by a fifth , and in Britain the serial rights were bought by a sixth . |
| 30 | Five is to the north of Killinghall and you 'll see from the table attached , table two that er prior to the opening of the phase one of the bypasses , it was opened in two phases between the A sixty one and the six six one in the southern half was opened first . |