Example sentences of "be [verb] by two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 2 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 3 | By early July the two Meteor F.4s had been joined by two Meteor T.7s ( and a Tiger Moth ! ) and the crews were introduced to the ‘ joys ’ of jet asymmetric flying . |
| 4 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 5 | The piazzetta is formed by the Palazzo Reale , the royal palace ( some pedants would say the ex -royal palace and its irregular shape is produced by the off-line main section of the building ; the two ‘ arms ’ of the square are completed by two wings of the palace . |
| 6 | Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants . |
| 7 | The detailed work has been undertaken by two subgroups , also multi agency and with practitioner involvement . |
| 8 | The World Cup finalists Ruggeri , Batista , Pumpido , Olarticochea , Giusti and Burruchaga are joined by two newcomers , Dezotti in attack and Simon at libero . |
| 9 | The World Cup finalists — Ruggeri , Batista , Pumpido , Olarticochea , Giusti and Burruchaga — are joined by two newcomers , Dezotti in attack and Simon at libero . |
| 10 | The initial problem is that Major is a Conservative and Clinton is a Democrat , and although party differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship , the problem has been compounded by two incidents during the US election campaign . |
| 11 | Particular services are examined by two writers closely involved with implementation : Nick Raynsford looks it recent developments in policies on housing , and David Mallen considers how education might effectively be used as a key instrument of social improvement . |
| 12 | After this timewasting procedure , George Shackel related how he and his manservant had been attacked by two labourers in Kings Meadow . |
| 13 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 14 | Socially and demographically the period has been dominated by two factors — the fall in the size of families and the increase in the expectation of survival to retirement , the effects of which are still far from having exhausted themselves . |
| 15 | These parts are separated by two papers which present the key concepts of innate sociality and intersubjectivity . |
| 16 | Moots are legal problems in the form of imaginary cases , which are argued by two student ‘ counsel ’ ( a leader and a junior ) on each side , with a ‘ bench ’ of three ‘ judges ’ ( or perhaps only one ) representing the Court of Appeal or sometimes the House of Lords . |
| 17 | A Crown Court jury saw an extract from the film said to have been watched by two defendants a fortnight before the alleged murder attempt . |
| 18 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 19 | Material collected for the study on the 1983 general election has been used by two researchers , John Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , to update the Nuffield study , and to examine the extent of social mobility a decade after the end of the post-war period ( John H. Goldthorpe and Clive Payne , ‘ Trends in intergeneration class mobility in England and Wales , 1972 — 83 ’ , Sociology , vol. 20 , no. 1 , February 1986 ) . |
| 20 | Possible options are shown by two films in At The Edge Of The World , a season of weird stuff from the US film and video underground currently on regional tour . |
| 21 | In addition , two similar houses had been bought by two companies , one of which , Ivyester Ltd , was wholly owned by Mr and Mrs Kempton . |
| 22 | Since the beginning of the 1990–91 session , Westminster Week has been replaced by two programmes ; the first , Out of Westminster , sets parliamentary issues in a regional context and involves local MPs from each region , and the second , called Scrutiny , deals with the work of parliamentary committees . |
| 23 | Stempel had been replaced by two men : John Smith is the new chief executive officer and John Smale takes over as chairman . |
| 24 | The fundamental assumption made by company law is that the functions and powers of the company , as an artificial legal entity , are exercised by two organs : the board of directors and the general meeting of shareholders . |
| 25 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 26 | Methane 's four hydrogen atoms are replaced by two oxygen atoms to give carbon dioxide . |
| 27 | Although he had suffered only a broken arm , it had been feared by two doctors at the scene that he had suffered serious head injuries . |
| 28 | On health and social services , valuable perspectives are provided by two volumes : from that of British social administration by Titmuss ( 1976 ) , and in terms of international comparison by geographers Joseph and Phillips ( 1984 ) . |
| 29 | The majority of rooms are shared by two students , and applications from new postgraduates unwilling to share are less likely to be successful . |
| 30 | Fibre sales duties are shared by two expatriates — Englishman , ten years into his second Italian tour , and Frenchman , who transferred from Courtaulds , Calais , in 1985 , to specialise in Courtelle . |