Example sentences of "it be [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there still waiting on the twenty fourth May , I said well I have n't got it yet , he said no it 's taking two weeks or so . |
| 2 | It 's called Two Gentlemen of Veronna ? |
| 3 | I 'm just surprised it 's taken two weeks . ’ |
| 4 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 5 | It is understood two cases have been brought by police in relation to the forged documents . |
| 6 | ‘ Anthem for Doomed Youth ’ has a completely different angle of viewing as it is comparing two types of death , slaughtering and a ceremonial death . |
| 7 | A concise way of illustrating it is to consider two questions . |
| 8 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 9 | According to committee secretary Gordon Porter , it is pursing two new lines of enquiry , although a statement may still be made shortly . |
| 10 | It was nearing two o'clock and Annie McCafferty paused as she put on her coat in the back room of the cafe . |
| 11 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 12 | While it was printing two things happened . |
| 13 | Oh , if it was bought two or three years ago , well I well obviously I could n't say , but obviously they have the option to read the policy at that point . |
| 14 | Microsoft Corp told Reuter that its retail shipments of the MS-DOS 6 upgrade , which have sold more than 2m copies worldwide since it was introduced two weeks ago , are supply-constrained — it just ca n't duplicate the thing fast enough . |
| 15 | On Dec. 20 the government announced that it was expelling two Palestinian brothers suspected of links with Sabri Khalil al Banna ( " Abu Nidal " ) , the leader of the Fatah Revolutionary Council . |
| 16 | He admired the stonework of the school , the windows and even pointed out how quaint it was having two handles on each side of the door . |
| 17 | C. T. Onions , the philologist , another fellow of Magdalen , was a founder member of the Kolbitar , and not long after it was founded two other fellows of Magdalen were asked to join : Jack Lewis and Bruce McFarlane , the historian . |
| 18 | It was to have two large marshalling yards to hold 700 wagons . |
| 19 | You 'd say , rubbish I did n't even want to know whether it was say two thousand two hundred and twenty six . |
| 20 | One o'clock had been and gone , and it was approaching two . |
| 21 | Its financing was switched from levies on member states to the Community 's own resources , and it was set two broad objectives : firstly , to facilitate the employment adjustment resulting from Community policies , and secondly , to help overcome the structural problems experienced by certain regions or target groups , i.e. migrant workers , young job-seekers , women and the handicapped . |
| 22 | If they did , it was held two months later . |
| 23 | As far as my old man could find out , it was abandoned two generations ago , or more . |