Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A COMPANY has been formed to run two sawmills which have been bought out by management from the previous owners .
2 The band are expected to perform two sets on the night and a number of special guests will be announced in the coming weeks .
3 Mr Davison , who had four children and lived at Dulverton Avenue in Swindon , had been reported missing two weeks earlier by his girlfriend .
4 Women today are considered to have two choices — to work or to stay at home .
5 Attempts have been made to blind two horses by cutting them with Stanley knives as they were grazing .
6 The topics of the modules are selected using two criteria .
7 Most synthetic bags are made using two layer construction with offset stitching ( see illustration ) to prevent cold spots .
8 One H positive one O H negative gives you the H two O we 've got two lots of that so we 're going to get two H two O.
9 You may obviously you 're going to have two payments coming in but you may well find that you know they 're no longer on the same sort of day .
10 I think we 're losing track of what this actually is Paul , there are , you 're trying to do two things at once what you 're trying to do , I think is use it as a learning process for children but this is an annual report for parents and I think that part of it a at least surely must be a report by the sa member of staff , by the department on how the child has done , by the member staff .
11 We 're trying to convey two things .
12 They 're trying to trace two men seen in a car close to where the attack happened .
13 Police are urging horse owners and stables to be on their guard , and they 're trying to trace two men seen parked near Natton in a car .
14 Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] .
15 The patient had been told to take two packets daily .
16 Most graphs are used to compare two things by giving a picture of how their respective values alter over the range of the graph .
17 Both are used to put two sentences together into one .
18 This month I am going to cover two problems which most horses will produce at some time or other .
19 These men are going to spend two weeks installing desperately needed cooking facilities within several orphanges and the Region is pleased to give them its full support .
20 He figures in the future , the world 's management information system departments are going to juggle two environments , Microsoft Corp Windows NT and Unix and that the real loser is all of this is IBM 's OS/2 .
21 Initially we are aiming to publish two editions ( Central News 1 and Central News 2 ) which will consist of a 30 minute video cassette and a two colour Activity Book .
22 Hilary had been invited to present two papers ; the main one ‘ Recreative Movement and Dance in the United Kingdom for the Dance Section and another entitled ‘ The Voice of British Sport — the Central Council of Physical Recreation ’ for the Administration Section .
23 It has been well received and customers are having to wait two hours for a table on Saturday evenings .
24 It had been proposed to form two parachute battalions recruited from Indian personnel serving in the Middle East .
25 Hotels , larger or smaller than Hallery House , will also benefit from the system which can be installed to handle two exchange lines and 10 extensions , and can grow in size to 40 exchange lines and 140 extensions .
26 Katharine will be expected to make two speeches during her visit , but for now she 's practicing the most important phrase : thank-you for having me .
27 Good software could be said to provide two levels of usage — idiot and expert .
28 In a sense Patrick O'Brian may be said to offer two heroes , each capable both of influencing events and being affected by them .
29 Root definitions can be used to define two things that are otherwise both vague and difficult .
30 They are useful only for a single set of data and can not be used to compare two sets unless two pies each representing different totals are compared .
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