Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [coord] is " in BNC.

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1 The damage has been and is being made good .
2 ( a ) Basic charging provision Where : ( i ) a capital sum is paid to the settlor in a year of assessment by any body corporate connected with the settlement in that year ; and ( ii ) an associated payment has been or is made directly or indirectly to that body corporate by the trustees of the settlement the capital sum shall be treated for the purposes of s677 as having been paid to the settlor by the trustees of the settlement .
3 Electronically created data has been and is being produced in a number of different organizational and technological environments .
4 The biggest obstacle has been and is the nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory .
5 The question whether what the social anthropologist describes is or is not typical of anything in a statistical sense seems to me totally irrelevant .
6 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 .
7 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 ?
8 Naturally , each of the cases referred to in the report by Sir Thomas Hetherington and Mr. Chalmers has been and is being investigated .
9 In the two months since the IVA was made , the total debt has been and is continuing to be materially reduced .
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