Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb -s] be " in BNC.

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1 to take such steps as are necessary to secure that there will be available in connection with the use of the article at work adequate information about the use for which it is designed and has been tested , and about any conditions necessary to endure that , when put to that use , it will be safe and without risks to health . ’
2 Society too , of course , changes ( and helps to change us ) , but whether it develops and matures is a matter for another debate .
3 Stainrod has scored six goals from just five starts and has been a major influence in Dundee 's recent run of good form .
4 He has sought treatment on a number of occasions and has come to the conclusion that he can not break the habit and that what he needs and wants is a maintenance regime , preferably on heroin — something that the medical profession in Wirral does not want to give him .
5 Painting throughout its history has served many different purposes , has been flat and has used perspective , has been framed and has been left borderless , has been explicit and has been mysterious .
6 Much of what he says and does is just to shock .
7 What the statute itself enacts can not be unlawful , because what the statute says and provides is itself the law , and the highest form of law that is known to this country .
8 The basic strategy of reusing information to create new information is well accepted and has been applied to writing .
9 This rumour was started the day after the dam was built and has been in circulation ever since .
10 One particular experience , which has attracted much attention , has been systematically evaluated and has been replicated , through the work of the Kent University Personal Social Services Research Unit .
11 They do n't have the resources or the clout , and the way in which the game has developed and has been structured in South Africa means they are dependent on the financial patronage of the six major urban unions — a new SARFU or not !
12 It was not , however , until the Lough Ine investigations ( summarised by Kitching & Ebling , 1967 ) that any serious experimental data were available to suggest an explanation as to the mechanism by which the pattern arose and has been maintained .
13 No , not pins , erm veers and veers are n't a problem .
14 The cold fusion with muons , ‘ muon catalysed fusion ’ , can occur and has been seen to happen ; however , it does not seem to happen fast enough to be useful as an energy source .
15 Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so .
16 Saddam Hussein disagrees with what the Kurds would like and has been trying to eradicate them from Iraq by killing them with his powerful army .
17 In those in whom this failed to identify flow within the stent , transoesophageal duplex ultrasound was performed and has been particularly useful in obese patients .
18 In this discussion , I will confine myself to discussing examples of sexism from the English language , though of course it exists and has been analysed in other languages too .
19 The olfactory channel is used and has been found to be important in making judgements about a person being ‘ good ’ or ‘ bad ’ !
20 It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries .
21 A total of £165 was raised and has been sent to Romania Aid .
22 Another patient with a low fistula has had her pouch excised and has been successfully converted to a Kock ileostomy because of severe ileoanal stenosis requiring pouch intubation that became socially unacceptable .
23 When A is insulting B , and is clearly directing his words and behaviour to B alone , if C hears and sees is he insulted ?
24 The popular press could not compete and has been pushed more and more into the ‘ human interest ’ dimension , interviewing friends and relations of players , stoking up dressing-room feuds and seizing upon the sex lives of the young , virile , and wayward .
25 As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ?
26 It has been suggested that this restates Arnold 's conception of a group of " apostles of culture " who disseminate the " best " that is known and has been thought .
27 The design of this study is now well known and has been analysed by other workers .
28 They differ in that in the case of prepayments the exact amount is known and has been paid although the services have yet to be received whereas in the case of an accrual the service has been received but has not been paid for and we have to estimate the amount due .
29 While statements such as this invited the charge that factual evidence was becoming confounded with too-hasty interpretation , the basic thesis survived and has been strengthened by other workers not of the psychoanalytic school : notably the ethologists and zoologists , as well as child psychologists ( Lorenz , 1952 ; Harlow , 1961 ; Schaffer and Emerson , 1964 ) .
30 The right hand colour choice box has disappeared and has been replaced with a new palette box that contains all the colours in the palette displayed .
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