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

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1 It is calculated for two cases : shear deformation and uniaxial stretching and compression .
2 Right , they do n't change much as a result of the degrees of freedom er adjustment okay with er squared distribution yes , sort of different distribution but we interpret the tables in exactly the same way so if you just have a look on your screen erm , there 's an L M version of the serial correlation test , right , and that has a squared distribution one right and the test statistic we obtain on your screens is calculated in two point eight eight , no two point zero eight .
3 The dangers of confusion for illiterate voters is compounded by two factors .
4 This is placed between two staves and moved to wherever you want it by using the cursor keys .
5 A particularly precious or tender example may have been ‘ silked ’ by an expert hand , that is placed between two sheets of fine entirely transparent gauze .
6 The principle is that the bottom shot holds the float down almost to the sight-bob , then the rod is placed in two rests and the line is tightened until only the sight-bob remains above surface .
7 A black girl wanders on softly singing a country blues , and is joined by two others also singing ; the light is dreamy , the harmony sweet .
8 ( There is a third and rarer form of hydrogen , known as tritium , where the proton is joined by two neutrons .
9 , President Bush has set up a President 's Commission on Environmental Quality , whose brief is to report within two years on ways in which the marketplace may be tapped for environmental protection .
10 An employee who is dismissed after two years ' service has three months in which to complain to an industrial tribunal .
11 In the first place the industry is typified by two types of integration , vertical and horizontal .
12 In all cases , then , whether the infinitive evokes the possible or the real actualization of its event , the person of the to infinitive is referred to two positions in time , one before , one coinciding with this event 's place in time .
13 So what what they 're actually saying is that here is a formal training that will make sure that everybody at the , who goes on this course , comes away with a measure of having achieved those skills because th the course itself is formed of two parts .
14 Fig 3 shows a diamond weaving design ( Stitchworld No. 425 ) , in which the centre of the diamond has single stitch floats and the diamond is formed of two stitch floats .
15 Taking a standard Diamond or Malay shape which is formed by two spars at 90 degrees to each other , the ‘ spars ’ are known variously as ‘ sticks ’ or , the ‘ spine ’ and the ‘ spreader ’ , or the ‘ keel ’ and the ‘ cross-spar ’ .
16 The ruff is formed from two channels of tightly packed feathers , which funnel sound into the earhole .
17 Carol 's turn at line 15 is punctuated by two pauses — a shorter one which marks the boundary of her Creole utterance , and a longer one after her question " when ? " , which functions to show that she has " lost " the date in her memory and needs time to think about it .
18 Inequality reduction is treated at two levels .
19 If a child is exposed to two languages simultaneously , we would expect a single system at first which gradually becomes divided into two under the influence of linguistic input from two separate systems .
20 The internal picture would then look exactly like that for the Hall effect in any normal conducting solid , except that it is limited to two dimensions .
21 The first suggestion is to round the figures to two effective digits since psychologists have shown that the short-term memory need for scanning tables is limited to two digits .
22 And that is goes to two X.
23 In these cases abortions are legal if the mother or child is diagnosed by two doctors ( usually the G.P. and the gynaecologist performing the operation ) .
24 The room is furnished with two iron beds , a shaky table and a stone stool that Roberto , the thirteen-year-old son , has dragged in for me .
25 But the destruction of the old Communist Party is completed by two policies that are adopted by the Communists themselves , both a response to the defeat they have suffered in nineteen twenty seven .
26 The land is owned by two companies based in the Isle of Man .
27 The volumes are not especially easy to use , however , and more detailed and accessible information is contained in two works published in 1950 and 1967 by the Society of Antiquaries of London : A Catalogue of English Medieval Rolls of Arms by Sir Anthony Wagner , and Rolls of Arms — Henry III edited by T.D .
28 That room is occupied by two people . ’
29 Another charter originating in Manchester is booked for two Class 37 locomotives working in multiple , bringing enthusiasts to the Gala Day .
30 The company is organised into two divisions — consumer and industrial .
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