Example sentences of "[be] and [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each user-supplied entry line ( except for the keywords HEADER-FORMAT-IS , MODULE-TYPE-IS , MODULE-NAME-IS , TITLE-IS and DESCRIPTION-LINES-ARE ) must be indented by at least two spaces from the initial keyword position , but there is no restriction on the position of other fields within the same entry . |
| 2 | The Kurds have been and are being massacred , and are dying of neglect — our neglect — by the tens of thousands because they tried to escape that massacre , which we did nothing to prevent . |
| 3 | Lesbians and gays have never been and are not now a static , homogenous minority group to whom a finite set of civil rights can be ‘ granted ’ . |
| 4 | The idea that mental events are physical , however , is not the idea , whether true or false , that mental events are in fact identical with the particular kind of physical events with which they have often been and are still identified , which is to say neural events . |
| 5 | On Croatia 's part , the immediate implementation of its plans to establish and safeguard the rights of minorities would be a sign that it recognises that there have been and are legitimate fears , particularly among the Serbs in Croatia . |
| 6 | It would seem to follow that awards in England and Wales have been and are to be made by reference to social , economic and industrial conditions there . |
| 7 | We have been and are very well served in N V C O. Our President , Sir Kenneth , our vice-presidents , and in particular , the Chair , the Vice-Chairs , and Treasurer , give us a great deal of their time , and I do mean give , as they work for many hours on behalf of N C V O without payment . |
| 8 | I have always been and am a royalist . |
| 9 | In the field of housing there has been and is likely to continue to be a major growth in housing associations , particularly after provisions are implemented which will allow council tenants to opt out of council control and into housing associations or tenancy with private landlords . |
| 10 | In the two months since the IVA was made , the total debt has been and is continuing to be materially reduced . |
| 11 | The biggest obstacle has been and is the nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory . |
| 12 | These maxima were subject to the proviso that ‘ in such shires and countries that where it hath been and is now used to give less wages , that in those shires and countries they shall give and the taker of the wages be compelled according as they have been used to take . |
| 13 | From January 1983 , married women will have the right to apply for Family Income Supplement ( a means-tested supplement for low wage-earners with children which currently specifies that only the husband in a married couple may apply ) and , provided the couple agree that she has been and is the main breadwinner , a married woman may then apply for means-tested supplementary benefit . |
| 14 | Perhaps incest is even more closely a matter of social norms than paedophilia ; its proscription or permissibility has been and is highly variable from period to period and in different sub-cultures within our own country , let alone others . |
| 15 | Naturally , each of the cases referred to in the report by Sir Thomas Hetherington and Mr. Chalmers has been and is being investigated . |
| 16 | The damage has been and is being made good . |
| 17 | Strategically , what happens there has always been and is bound to be of vital interest to Britain . |
| 18 | Although , having once decided under section 40(1) that an award was warranted , I would be required by section 41(1) to take account of any benefit the employer ‘ might reasonably be expected to derive ’ , section 40(1) requires me to decide whether the patent is of outstanding benefit , and I conclude that this entails my satisfying myself that such benefit has already been and is being achieved . |
| 19 | Er , has been and is continue , continuing to be whittled away , so workers in Shropshire are , are in a poor position , and , and this is an opportunity to , to give them some help , to replace some of that statutory protection which is being removed . |
| 20 | Electronically created data has been and is being produced in a number of different organizational and technological environments . |
| 21 | My Lords , as we all know , having been told twice by our Minister that the cost of a pencil is twenty pence , will she now tell us what the overall cost has been and is for cash protection for grant maintained schools ? |
| 22 | ‘ The health of people like her has not been and is not safe in Tory hands , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night . |
| 24 | It had n't been and was n't far away , just out of sight behind a group of saplings . |
| 25 | This probably accounted for the fact that she was not on duty at the theatre as much as she should have been and was very moody when she was there . |
| 26 | Beneath my feet and beside me to my right , were the sheer pale grey rocks that were the andesitic relics of all the ancient turbulence and torture which had been and was still being caused by the plates ' gentle , turgid but quite inevitable meeting . |
| 27 | For a time the eagles were speechless with surprise at what had happened and could only stare through the Cages to Woil who had now taken stance again on the branch where he had originally been and was grooming himself as if nothing had happened . |
| 28 | Those who were called upon to defend non-payment of what they owed beyond the promised date were , as they had always been and were to go on being , in the minority . |
| 29 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 30 | Although such measures had been and were still attacked , by the COS for example , for discouraging parental responsibility , it was equally arguable that they strengthened such responsibilities by making it possible for poor families to carry them out . |