Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] two [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We 're trying to convey two things . |
| 10 | They 're trying to trace two men seen in a car close to where the attack happened . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | The patient had been told to take two packets daily . |
| 14 | Most graphs are used to compare two things by giving a picture of how their respective values alter over the range of the graph . |
| 15 | Both are used to put two sentences together into one . |
| 16 | This month I am going to cover two problems which most horses will produce at some time or other . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It has been well received and customers are having to wait two hours for a table on Saturday evenings . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Good software could be said to provide two levels of usage — idiot and expert . |
| 24 | In a sense Patrick O'Brian may be said to offer two heroes , each capable both of influencing events and being affected by them . |
| 25 | Root definitions can be used to define two things that are otherwise both vague and difficult . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Cut and sew can also be used to make two fronts from a single knitted piece . |
| 28 | In the second phase the individual measures will be used to follow two classes of children through their first year of school , and a further two classes through their first term . |
| 29 | And I 'm going to put two pieces of garden cane in . |
| 30 | Er if I 'm going to give two weeks after anyway for the Councils , I do n't really think it makes a great deal of difference whether it be Friday er afternoon or Monday afternoon . |