Example sentences of "is [verb] on two " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we have done is to concentrate on two particular themes . |
| 2 | The Faculty is located on two campuses — at Belfast , where most of the staff , students and facilities are based , and at Magee College . |
| 3 | The town is built on two levels , above and below a ridge of sandstone which rises from the west bank of the River Severn , and a remarkable cliff railway , called Castle Hill Railway , was built in 1892 to link High Town with Low Town . |
| 4 | MUSIC for the harp is written on two staves exactly as is that for the piano . |
| 5 | Music for the celesta is written on two staves like that for the piano . |
| 6 | The Medicines Information Bill is founded on two main principles : that those who keep secrets should not have the last word on where secrecy begins and ends and that openness should be the rule and secrecy the exception . |
| 7 | There is no shading on the rock here , but it is used on two out of three tiny , marvellous cups from Athens ( figs. 113 , 114 ) made by a potter Sotades and painted by the ‘ Sotades Painter ’ who may well have been the same man . |
| 8 | It is n't just that the repertory is far-removed from that of the harp 's romantic territory — and , to the best of my recollection , of a kind last explored ( more conservatively and on a modern instrument ) in an entire disc by Zabaleta ( Archiv ) over 20 years ago , nor that it is played on two pedal-less early harps , it 's the spirit with and in which it is executed . |
| 9 | The upper dentition is borne on two maxillary tooth-plates , each of which has several rows of teeth and is bisected by a deep longitudinal groove ( figure 1 ) . |
| 10 | Holyoak 's attack , published in a recent issue of The Architects ' Journal , is based on two premises . |
| 11 | This approach , known as ‘ the new approach ’ , is based on two principles : |
| 12 | This whole tune is based on two elements of Will Lee 's plan : playing with the kick , filling around that and creating a melodic hook that shines . |
| 13 | The best practice approach adopted by Lucas Automotive is based on two simple premises : that in any activity carried out by two or more groups of people , one group will be better at it than the others ; and that there will be real benefits to be achieved by the other groups learning from the experience of the ‘ best ’ group . |
| 14 | The package is based on two people sharing , with one person paying full price — on average this is £110 — and one going FREE . |
| 15 | Etymologically , as Fromm reminds us ( 1973 : 189 ) , the English word is based on two Latin words , ad and gradior , with the combined sense of ‘ movement towards ’ . |
| 16 | Afrocentrism is based on two somewhat controversial propositions . |
| 17 | Porosity nomenclature is based on two classic papers : Choquette & pray ( 1970 ) and Schmidt , McDonald & platt ( 1977 ) . |
| 18 | The Society 's action , initiated after taking advice from leading counsel , is based on two main grounds . |
| 19 | It will only change when the psychology behind it has changed ; and this psychology is based on two die-hard principles which together constitute almost the last vestiges of his own Indian-ness . |
| 20 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby and Kennilworth correctly said , the parents charter is based on two policies designed to help all the other steps that we shall be taking to raise standards of education . |
| 21 | Although the current version of the LBS model places considerable weight on relative money supplies , and implicitly on purchasing power parity , current research is based on two propositions which are widely accepted in North America : |
| 22 | In contrast to the poststructuralists , whose concern with actual literary texts is perfunctory or marginal , Bakhtin 's work is focused on two major European authors , Dostoevsky and Rabelais . |
| 23 | The anger in this issue is concentrated on two things . |
| 24 | Research is concentrated on two specific areas , so that each receives in-depth survey and analysis . |
| 25 | She will now have to repeat her allegations when the 52-year-old Surrey man is re-tried on two rape charges . |
| 26 | To facilitate comparison , the study is centred on two predominantly upland regions — Wales in the UK and the Auvergne in France . |
| 27 | For this reason , the draft Regulation provides that , where an SE is superimposed on two or more other companies as a new holding company , there will be an easy mechanism for the resultant merger , with both original companies being automatically dissolved and their former shareholders automatically becoming members of the SE : this is similar to a British Scheme of Arrangement approved by the High Court . |