Example sentences of "be and [vb -s] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that evaluation has been and continues to be a matter of concern probably reflects the uncertainty amongst librarians of user education methodologies . |
| 2 | It is not therefore surprising that Barth 's work has been and continues to be controversial . |
| 3 | I think part of the reason for this collective blindness or , more accurately perhaps , this collective lack of action , is that we lack conviction that many of these problems are solvable , and we lack understanding of what actually can be and needs to be done to correct them . |
| 4 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 5 | The evaluation was and continues to be conducted by the Department of General Practice of the University of Edinburgh under Professor John Howie . |
| 6 | ‘ The situation was and continues to be highly dangerous . |
| 7 | ‘ The situation was and continues to be highly dangerous . |