Example sentences of "be that [art] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position now seems to be that the two offences have the same legal definition , and that the prosecution should prefer the charge of manslaughter when the case is a bad one which might merit a sentence in excess of the five-year maximum for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 2 | The reasoning behind this proposal seems to be that the two parties are adult , and any exploitation deriving from the family tie seems no more likely than in other adult relationships . |
| 3 | It may be that the two books were originally one manuscript . |
| 4 | The pleasure of long rivers is that no two trips along them are ever even similar . |
| 5 | The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease . |
| 6 | Pam Royle , Tyne Tees presenter : ‘ My first reaction is that the two companies merged is good news in terms of what will be seen on the screen . |
| 7 | IF New Scientist has a wish for 1983 that is in theory achievable it is that the two cultures C. P. Snow described a generation ago should again become one . |
| 8 | The basic reason for such sterility is that the two parents contain different numbers of chromosomes . |
| 9 | Albert writes : ‘ The inescapable conclusion is that the two models of capitalism diverge on the fundamental question of whether to live for the present moment — and to hell with the consequences for future generations — or to plan for a better tomorrow , though it may require sacrifices today . |
| 10 | Another possibility is that the two deuterium nuclei combine to form helium-4 ; here again the mass of helium-4 is less than the combined masses of two deuterium nuclei and the ‘ spare ’ mass is manifested as electromagnetic radiation far beyond the visible spectrum and known as a gamma ray ( denoted by γ ) . |
| 11 | Robin Dunbar ( personal communication ) is of the opinion that the reason why this happens in gelada is that the two males strike a bargain , as it were . |
| 12 | The crucial feature necessary for the occurrence of the special phenomena of double diffusive convection is that the two components should have different diffusivities . |
| 13 | The rule is that the two plugs fit together so that black wires are in the middle — if you are in any doubt then seek assistance or use a voltmeter to check the power supply . |
| 14 | The difficulty , from the defendant 's point of view , is that the two agreements , instead of imposing a joint liability on him and Miss Guile to pay a deposit of £80 and monthly payments of £73.32 , on their face imposed on each of them individual and separate obligations to pay only a deposit of £40 and monthly payments of only £86.66 . |
| 15 | Wensley ( 1981 ) says that management must decide how much effort should be exerted on CAPM compared to the strategic analysis of competitive advantage , but the position adopted here is that the two concepts are related and that effort on one ought to improve understanding of the other , even if little research on such matters has yet been performed . |
| 16 | The reason it thinks your 486SX is a 386 is that the two processors do share many common features , it just that one is a lot more powerful than the other . |
| 17 | The alternative to Joos 's view is that the two editions of the infinitive are variants . |
| 18 | Another strange point of the mystery is that the two men claimed that the smoke came out of the tunnel mouth towards the station yet a breeze was blowing the other way . |
| 19 | His theory is that the two men were either freelance or else they decided to try and kill the President by themselves without telling the others . ’ |
| 20 | One explanation for this is that the two bodies constituting Pluto were originally moons of Neptune , but that something tore them from the giant planet 's grasp — the converse of what is thought to have happened to Triton ! |
| 21 | What is certain is that the two parts of the community continued to the time of Lanfranc 's death and beyond to face each other with unconcealed hostility . |
| 22 | Another irritation with the current crop of fax modems is that the two parts of the modem do n't cooperate with one another . |
| 23 | These two are compared — classifications involve comparisons and contrasts — and the mechanism of the comparison is that the two types ( CRAs and IRAs ) are matched together , but always against a further factor . |
| 24 | The difficulty is that the two contributions made opposite points . |
| 25 | Although there have been theories in this area which would suggest a linear relationship between arousal and performance ( e.g. Hull , 1943 ) the most common claim is that the two variables are related by the curvilinear pattern known as the inverted-U hypothesis ( e.g. Hebb , 1955 ) . |
| 26 | Finally , an issue we became aware of — in England at least-because of the " dowry " system of funding was that a two tier system may be set up which benefits those people who have come out of hospital and ignores the others . |
| 27 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 28 | One effect of wiring for trolleybuses was that the two pairs of wires were accommodated in troughing under the bridges at Selhurst and Selby Road . |
| 29 | As their Lordships understand their reasoning , it was that the two sales were not legally interdependent and that there was no evidence to support the judge 's finding that the Perots had a special interest in buying the two adjoining properties . |
| 30 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |