Example sentences of "[be] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At VAG and Associated British Ports , employees are given two days ' special leave at the time of the move . |
| 2 | Pre-school children , presented with novel verbs describing unfamiliar actions , are given two types of input : cognitively available indications of argument structure , and syntactic indications of argument structure . |
| 3 | If you are using two strands of 2/30s for your jacquard then add one extra strand for the welt and remove it after the last two CX rows . |
| 4 | If you are using two six-egg-boxes , fasten them together with strong tape to make two rows of six ‘ holes ’ ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 5 | Makita suggests that if you are using two battery packs , the charger should be left to cool down for 15 minutes between chargings . |
| 6 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 7 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 8 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 9 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 10 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 11 | You have been given two years not only to investigate historical thinking and knowledge but also to practise the dynamic process of essay writing . |
| 12 | The vicar who keeps more than fifty animals in his garden has been given two weeks to get rid of them . |
| 13 | The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years . |
| 14 | There 's a stand-pipe that 's been erected two streets over that way , ’ she said , pointing . |
| 15 | I am using two 36″ tubes . |
| 16 | I am using two 80W mercury vapour lights , from when my tank was planted . |
| 17 | In the central panel are depicted two wrestling Cupids , watched by a species of large bird ; this is enclosed by , a single dark line and is bordered by a chain-guilloche with " tongues " . |
| 18 | The route had been reopened two weeks previously following an attack in January when two people were killed . |
| 19 | In Russia that introduced in 1859 had been sat two years later by a mere five candidates in all . |
| 20 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 21 | Marathon had already been granted two production licenses in the western edge of Cardigan Bay and St George 's Channel , West Wales . |
| 22 | And detectives are hunting two youths who raped a teenage girl while she was camping in . |
| 23 | Detectives are hunting two youths who raped a teenage girl while she was camping in . |
| 24 | Police are hunting two youths after a businessman was threatened with a handgun , and a woman kicked in the back and then robbed . |
| 25 | Cleveland Police are hunting two youths who grabbed a cash bag containing hundreds of pounds from a woman on her way to a Middlesbrough bank . |
| 26 | POLICE in Cleveland are hunting two youths who assaulted a teenager before stealing his mountain bike . |
| 27 | POLICE are hunting two youths who snatched a handbag from a woman walking alone in broad daylight . |
| 28 | DETECTIVES are hunting two youths who kidnapped a woman driver , sexually assaulted her and abandoned her in a burning car . |
| 29 | POLICE in York are hunting two muggers who assaulted a 25-year-old civil servant in Layerthorpe and stole a small amount of money . |
| 30 | Police are hunting two teenagers after a failed snatch from a woman carrying cash in Loftus Market Place . |