Example sentences of "[be] two [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | When the signs are the same if they 're two pluses you add them and it 's plus if they 're both minus you add them and it 's minus here you take the smaller from the larger and give it the sign of a larger . |
2 | If there are going to be two desks we need one member of staff on each desk . |
3 | I was gon na say if you ai n't permanently in employment , you 're a bit silly to take that especially if the er , present climber and there 's one there they offered me said it could be two weeks or it could be two years I do n't know , so I gambler or not , I mean it depends how well you 're you are as well . |
4 | But although I was happy there were two questions I could n't stop thinking about . |
5 | You said there were two things we needed to discuss . ’ |
6 | But there were two things I could do . |
7 | But thinking about Guido and the race were two things she 'd been trying very hard not to do . |
8 | There were two routes she could take . |
9 | Now there were two characters you could trust ! |
10 | If there were two designers they must have worked closely together and shared the same highly trained team of executants . |
11 | ‘ Now then , there are two areas I want you to investigate as unobtrusively as possible . |
12 | There are two things they have to grasp . |
13 | When we die there are two things we can leave behind us : genes and memes . |
14 | ‘ There are two things we have to discuss and there may not be much time or another opportunity . |
15 | There are two things we can do with hair on the upper lip , we can either bleach it so that it does n't notice , or we can actually remove it with wax , or we can have electrolysis . |
16 | Er , we were told by Mr that there is no problem with numbers , remember there are two , there are two things we 've got to tackle , one is numbers , two is conditions in our home . |
17 | There are two things you 're trying to achieve . |
18 | There are two things I work on now . |
19 | She wrote to Jane at the start of her employment : ‘ There are two things I beg you to do : get your time each day in the fresh air and strictly limit the hours you spend on your work , which I have always had to do anyway with such a large family and it does make sense in the end . |
20 | and that paper there are two things I get from that . |
21 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
22 | If there are two guns they should stand side by side on the edge of the burrow , one shooting to the right and the other to the left , so that neither is endangered by whatever the other fellow does . |
23 | ‘ Although Lebanon and Syria are two countries they are one people of the nation … which was partitioned by colonialism . ’ |
24 | Karajan 's 1975 recording on DG is majestic , but it does n't excite me as it should , and I have to say that there are two performances I consistently turn to much more often : first , a Supraphon disc with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Lovro von Matàcic , a rugged and unjustly neglected account which deserves a much wider circulation ( . |
25 | There are two possibilities we must consider : the first is that player A wants small values of ; this is achieved by lower ( higher ) levels of in the early stages of play if . |
26 | These are two young-uns I reckon they lodge up here somewhere . |
27 | All I can say is that in a period of two years erm of five , in that time there was five sets of redundancies at erm Hatfield , there are two occasions we were told that they went through it and agree with the unions that there 'd be no more for twelve months and one occasion there was another chap in three months , so if you believe anything that the P A E people there , you know , you really want to wear dark glasses but could I ask you a question , I understand that there is something going on at work with Richard at and my guess is , is , erm that sort of job which we are , there is some form of development plans going forward . |
28 | There are two ways we can view the structure of an animal . |
29 | As consumers , there are two ways we can do this : |
30 | Everyone needs to refer to back issues of ACCOUNTANCY from time to time , and there are two ways we can help . |