Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] two [noun] " 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 | The group and the men associated with it were honoured with two unit citations , a thousand of individual medals and many decorations from allied countries . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When they reached the Royal Pavilion , ‘ the prettiest building in England ’ , they were stopped by two constables . |
| 10 | They were filled into two ounce , four ounce or , you know , depending on the size you you stocked and sold . |
| 11 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | The early search firms were dominated by two types of individuals . |
| 14 | In front of an open fireplace in the hall , a couple of large leather armchairs were occupied by two men in dark suits . |
| 15 | Computed tomography of the pituitary was performed on all patients , and all the scans were reported by two consultant radiologists by consensus . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The three remaining seats were won by two representatives of the Turkish Moslem minority in Thrace ( a gain of one ) , and one environmentalist candidate . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In 1951 an elderly transmitter of only 400 watts was purchased at the cost of seventy pounds and aerials were slung between two coconut palms . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Similar extrusions were seen in two rats whose stomachs were perfused with saline for 60 minutes after ethanol . |
| 26 | Three Israelis were injured in two bomb explosions in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip on Feb. 9 . |
| 27 | The announcement came as twenty-one people were injured in two car bomb attacks in Belfast . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |