Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least two strikers were reported to have been wounded and two more badly beaten as the Army dislodged strikers from their occupation of the installations of the Tela Railroad Company , a subsidiary of the United States United Fruit Company . |
| 2 | Within the State Department it has been argued that two competing strategies — one ‘ Asian-oriented ’ and the other ‘ Europe-oriented ’ — had emerged and that the critical question was whether the US should have insisted on French concessions to Vietnamese nationalism as a condition of US support . |
| 3 | An inquest has been told that two tyres on one of the cars involved were seriously under-inflated . |
| 4 | Before it was over , knuckle-dusters had been used and two of the combatants were taken to hospital . |
| 5 | An example has even been found where two kinds of condition — and consequently two degrees of certainty — are evoked with respect to the same event : ( 107 ) One of them knew , or anyhow guessed , the other to have caused the accident . |
| 6 | Many different definitions of sexual selection have been proposed but two kinds are in common use . |
| 7 | Where there are two people in the property the reduction will be given if two community charges are higher than the rates bill plus £52 . |
| 8 | The radial shields are covered but can be distinguished as two long swellings at the base of the arms , reaching to the centre of the disk . |
| 9 | They can rarely , if ever , be considered as two opposing forces , for more often than not both processes run hand in hand . |
| 10 | A whole mini-city of ten thousand homes will be built and two thousand jobs created , but people living nearby are far from happy . |
| 11 | If complex eigenvalues exist , " double shifts ' ( see Wilkinson ( 6 ) ) may be made and two QR steps performed simultaneously to give rapid convergence while all arithmetic is kept real . |
| 12 | An important canvas of the autumn or early winter of 1906 , Two Nudes , now in the Museum of Modern Art , New York , could equally well be seen as two studies of a single figure viewed from diametrically opposed positions , an indication that Picasso was not only attempting to produce images of almost unprecedented weight and girth , but that he was also becoming impatient or dissatisfied with the idea of viewing his subjects from a single , stationary point of view . |
| 13 | These could actually be used as two separate windings driving separate supply circuits , but it would be very unusual for a transformer to be used in this way . |
| 14 | He knows Newcastle could draw and still be relegated if two from Oxford , Brighton and Plymouth win . |
| 15 | He knows Newcastle could draw and still be relegated if two from Oxford , Brighton and Plymouth win . |
| 16 | In comparison to Europe in general , the Democrats and the Republicans may best be characterized as two among a large number of groups setting out to influence the course of the American political process ( we shall examine such groups in chapter 13 ) . |
| 17 | If the court is satisfied that the petition and other documents presented to it are in order , the petition and all the copies will be sealed and two copies handed back to the petitioner . |
| 18 | Equally it is to be welcomed that two major attempts have been made to address the general nature of Conservative ideology . |
| 19 | It has been observed that two out of three fiction readers in libraries do not look at the text of a book before choosing it . |
| 20 | Earthquakes , especially the big ones , are caused when two tectonic plates — segments of the earth 's crust that float freely on the molten magma beneath — come into contact with one another and one plate bangs into another or rubs alongside it or dives under it . |
| 21 | Elections were due by November 1992 , but an early election had been necessitated when two right-wing ultra-nationalist parties , Tehiya and Moledet , left the ruling Likud-led coalition in January , depriving the government of a majority in the Knesset [ see p. 38740 ] . |
| 22 | For example , subjects ( which can be people or , with suitable techniques , animals ) are asked whether two complex shapes , presented in different orientations , are or are not the same . |
| 23 | Eight existing modules are being revised and two new ones are being developed in video production and role play . |
| 24 | General Kopyion showed little interest in the events of the civil war , even with confirmed reports of a hovertrain being hijacked and two female Academicians having their homes broken into and being raped by soldiers . |
| 25 | However , we shall consider both projects together here , as they were designed as two phases of a single , integrated research programme . |
| 26 | Nine people were wounded when two bombs exploded after hours at the Banco Popular in central Lima , and another bomb was deactivated at the home of a well-known television journalist , police said yesterday . |
| 27 | All mothers of the remaining 51 case children were interviewed but two fathers were not ( table I ) . |
| 28 | Several house windows were smashed and two cars damaged when the trouble broke out last night in Queens Retreat in Cheltenham . |
| 29 | Two men , aged 25 and 21 , died and four people were injured when two cars collided near Knutsford , Cheshire , late on Saturday . |
| 30 | THREE members of the same family were injured when two cars crashed on a busy Northumberland road . |