Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cartridge boxes were stacked in two layers . |
| 2 | After two hours , Mitchum , Ford , Leeds and Vicki Evans were indicted on two counts : possession of marijuana and conspiracy to violate the State Narcotics Act . |
| 3 | Between 10 and 12 May they surrendered to 6 Armoured Division and were placed in two camps near St Veit , 12 miles north of Klagenfurt . |
| 4 | The prisoner , a negro stevedore called Augustus Ciparis , remained locked up in his cell for four days after St Pierre had been laid waste , without food , half-dead from burns and shock , until his cries for help were heard by two negroes picking through the ruins of the town . |
| 5 | For example , when Nicholas Bacon of Stiffkey , Norfolk , died in 1578 three doctors were present at the embalming , though the primary incisions were undertaken by two surgeons ; yet regardless of their importance and status , each was paid £2 for their services . |
| 6 | Situated in Kirkgate , adjacent to the Parish kirk , with the kirkyard as its only playground , the low cottage appears to have had only one room , or two at most , in which about thirty pupils of varying ages and stages of education were taught by two teachers . |
| 7 | Families who wished to emigrate and girls looking for domestic jobs were referred to two societies affiliated to the COS , the East End Emigration Society and the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants . |
| 8 | When they reached the Royal Pavilion , ‘ the prettiest building in England ’ , they were stopped by two constables . |
| 9 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 10 | ‘ Of 28 social problems textbooks published between 1964 and 1978 , a total of only 110 pages discussed the importance of large corporations to society ; of these pages only 11 mentioned corporate crime and all but one of these pages were contained in two textbooks published in 1978 . |
| 11 | The early search firms were dominated by two types of individuals . |
| 12 | In front of an open fireplace in the hall , a couple of large leather armchairs were occupied by two men in dark suits . |
| 13 | Sendero 's immediate retaliation following the arrests was not as great as feared , but a policeman was shot dead in Lima on Sept. 14 and five civilians were wounded in two explosions . |
| 14 | The group were approached by two males who were not known to them , and the female was asked to enter the tent , and both youths took turns in entering the tent , where a serious sexual assault took place on the female . |
| 15 | Four seats were won by two parties closely aligned with the NLD , the United Nationalities League for Democracy ( UNLD ) won 65 seats and the remaining seats were won by smaller parties or independent candidates . |
| 16 | The three remaining seats were won by two representatives of the Turkish Moslem minority in Thrace ( a gain of one ) , and one environmentalist candidate . |
| 17 | Further studies were delaying by two years measures to save Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia , which was in danger of being reduced to a salty lagoon after the damming in the 1970s of the six rivers feeding it . |
| 18 | No breaks in the cold chain were documented at the central storage facility , although vaccines kept at the study site were discarded on two occasions after power failures that lasted several hours . |
| 19 | If the melodic line were confined to two octaves with all the violins on the top octave and the violas and cellos in unison on the lower octave , no woodwind doubling of the strings would be necessary , and the woodwind would then be used to double the brass chords . |
| 20 | These were hung in two tiers on either side , but occasionally serious cases were suspended centrally , so as to be almost entirely unaffected by the vibration of the train . |
| 21 | Similar extrusions were seen in two rats whose stomachs were perfused with saline for 60 minutes after ethanol . |
| 22 | Estimates of abundance of harp seals were presented for two periods : Norwegian authors provided the highest upper limit for the late 1960s , and the lower limit of the estimates from the analysis by a UK scientist was less than the catch of the 1967 year class of pups . |
| 23 | In the 1698 General Election , Wharton 's candidates fared relatively badly in several Buckinghamshire constituencies , including the county , whilst in Oxfordshire , where Wharton was Lord Lieutenant , his candidates were defeated by two Tories . |
| 24 | About the same time TWW were looking for two journalists Ron Evans , a former journalist with the Empire News and the Sunday Times , had already joined the television company and he came over to Thomson House to check me out . |
| 25 | The men from RAF Brawdy , Dyfed , were hunting for two men missing in the Bristol Channel after two trawlers collided . |
| 26 | Leonid I. Ponomarev then applied the resonance theory to the case of deuterium — tritium ( ‘ dt ’ ) fusion and discovered that in a complicated molecule where two deuterons and one triton were encircled by two electrons and one muon the theory predicted that the fusion rate leapt enormously relative to what had been expected from the earlier simple theories . |
| 27 | A book called Excursion to Hell claims three prisoners were shot by two members of the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment in 1982 . |
| 28 | This year 's awards were made at two ceremonies — one of which was in Bengkalis Regency for the students who live in LASMO 's field operations area . |
| 29 | The design of the study was based on firm methodology : ( 1 ) the asthma was well defined and well documented ; ( 2 ) the selection pattern included only asthmatics whose primary complaint was asthma ; ( 3 ) all consenting asthmatics were studied ; and ( 4 ) all endoscopies were performed by two endoscopists using the same predefined criteria . |
| 30 | Although all the endoscopic examinations were performed by two endoscopists using the same criteria , there is still the possibility that observer bias was present . |