Example sentences of "and the [adj] [noun] be [be] " in BNC.

  Next page

No	Sentence
1	And the other thing is is when .
2	And the other thing is were you running from the hard drive or from that floppy ? cos I did n't want the tape-recorder travelling .
3	Earnings per share fell 64 per cent to 5.1p and the total dividend is being cut from 10.3p to 6.5p , after a final trimmed from 5.8p to 3.5p .
4	‘ What this says to me is that the middle and upper classes are being taught how to control the machine , and the lower class is being controlled by it , ’ he said .
5	Our microscopes had been improved , and the deadly killers were being isolated and identified as never before .
6	Before his defence in 1980 , against Carlos Herrera , he announced : ‘ This is a white man 's country and the black man is being held back . ’
7	The Kayan and the Penan peoples are being encouraged — some would say coerced — into leaving their scattered forest homes and nomadic lives to settle in larger communities where they are given schools and clinics and telephones … and jobs in the timber industry .
8	Eric Taylor 's sixth annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings in aid of Amnesty and the Medical Foundation is being held in Tewkesbury Abbey , Gloucestershire , from 19–26 June inclusive .
9	But she reaches into my bolt hole and the red spoon is being coaxed firmly from my fist .
10	‘ Those muscles are sagging , they 're flaccid , and the whole leg is being pulled out of its true shape by the strong muscles surrounding them .
11	yep , good it has that creative element about it does n't it because as you say if you get them to produce it get the audience to help produce it then again it 's involvement and the whole thing is is erm more spontaneous than than pre-prepared .
12	By the time he had rushed down in an elevator and emerged on the track , the other two medallists had received their medals — and the national anthem was being played without anybody on the gold medal podium .

  Next page