Example sentences of "it be [verb] [conj] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that two Feltham type cars , cut off from Telford Avenue depôt , had to spend a night in Thornton Heath depôt . |
| 2 | Many takeovers in Europe are friendly and it is said that two in three are negotiated without merchant bankers . |
| 3 | The police investigation is continuing , but it is believed that two plastic barrels containing some 300 lb of home-made explosive were placed beside the roadside hedge and detonated by command wire from a vantage point overlooking the scene . |
| 4 | It is expected that two Czechoslovak dissidents , spanning a 20-year period , will be chosen as joint winners to emphasise the durability of the movement towards liberalisation . |
| 5 | At peak times it is expected that two transfers a week between the archive and the Working-Set and vice versa will occur , and that material will be sent for composition twice a week during peak use . |
| 6 | It is thought that two young were raised . |
| 7 | The political system of South Korea underwent a momentous realignment on Jan. 22 , when it was announced that two of the country 's three main opposition parties , the Reunification Democratic Party ( RDP ) and the New Democratic Republican Party ( NDRP ) , would merge with the ruling Democratic Justice Party ( DJP ) to form a new conservative alliance . |
| 8 | It was announced that two trees would be planted in Regent 's Park on Wednesday 18th March at 11.30 in memory of and . |
| 9 | Last week it was revealed that two thousand people died in a single chemical attack . |
| 10 | Several of these were also in packages managed by other people and it was realised that two new modules would be required . |
| 11 | When the pistons were withdrawn it was discovered that two of the rings were broken . |
| 12 | At our last meeting it was suggested that two groups should meet to discuss the future work of the Council . |
| 13 | Recently , it was shown that two independent EF-1α genes in Drosophila melanogaster expressed individually during development ( 5 ) . |
| 14 | It is interesting to note that the human gastric tumour cell line HGT-1 , which was derived from a primary tumour originating in an non-antral part of the stomach , had histamine 2 receptor which responded , maximally to much higher histamine concentrations of 10 - 3 to 10 - 4 M. Cells from the duodenum did not possess the histamine 2 receptor and in this study it was shown that two colorectal tumour cell lines did not seem to possess histamine 2 receptor indicating location of histamine 2 receptor may be confined to the gastric area . |
| 15 | Recently it was shown that two inserted sequences of 21 and 10 amino acids were present near the actin binding site and Mg-ATPase domain respectively of the chicken nonmuscle MHC-B gene ( 21 ) . |
| 16 | It was noted that large stocks of the Haler text book ( still selling well ) existed and after discussion it was agreed that two pallet loads held in store should be destroyed , leaving a stock of approximately 1000 . |
| 17 | On examination , it was found that two species were largely insectivorous , two largely fig-eaters and five were generalist frugivores . |
| 18 | Even worse , it was estimated that two of the unproductive classes , the nobility and the Church , held two-thirds of the land of Spain in entail and mortmain . |
| 19 | Over in Xian , it was reported that two postgraduates of the Northwestern University were assaulted by the children of a well-placed professor . |
| 20 | The most notorious was in 1984 when it was reported that two detained patients had been beaten to death by staff of Hotokukai Utsunomiya Hospital . |
| 21 | On May 30 , it was reported that two of the missing witnesses in the trial had been kidnapped and smuggled to Zambia where one of them , Gabriel Pelo Mekgwe , was being held by ANC activists , and the other , Katiza Cebekhulu , was in prison . |
| 22 | On April 22 it was reported that two Jewish brothers , Eli Swed and Selim Swed , had been released from prison . |
| 23 | In Chapter 7 , it was mentioned that two schoolboys , John Jackson and Joseph Dalton of the Royal Cross School , Preston , were awarded silver medals for gallantry during the fire at this school in 1905 . |
| 24 | ‘ But wo n't they fall over the milk-crates ? ’ a teacher asked when it was proposed that two young children with severe visual problems should join the reception group . |