Example sentences of "be [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The HP4 requirement has been or has the potential to be met without further Green Belt loss .
2 Greater participation by women in paid work and changes in family structure thus seem to be closely related , although what the mechanisms are that connect the two changes is less clear .
3 There you are that says the end , that means it 's finished .
4 and people who are prepared to discuss the issue but they just do n't come out the door to where erm , the people are that need the information .
5 The main reasons are that putting a plan on paper helps an organization to decide what it wants to achieve , to communicate its ideas to others and to monitor future Performance .
6 Whatever the conditions are that force a young person to run away from home , there is no doubt that institutionalised care exacerbates them .
7 Mind you it 's a , I 've be I 've been and had a look rou er round there this dinnertime , quarter to eleven sh er quarter to twelve she 's supposed to start .
8 My friend wanted to encourage them to come back , so we put the bales back where they had been and cut a suitable owl-sized hole in the wall .
9 There can be no doubt whatever about the validity of this method , and no doubt either that its description has been and remains a matter of controversy , or of several controversies .
10 An integral part of the removal of barriers between member states has been and remains the implementation of the fundamental principle of Community law that member states should not discriminate against one another and should assimilate the treatment they accord to nationals from other member states to the treatment they accord to their own nationals .
11 Five former chairmen of the Arts Council , Lord Cottesloe ( 1960–65 ) , Lord Goodman ( 1965–72 ) , Lord Gibson ( 1972–77 ) , Sir Kenneth Robinson ( 1977–82 ) and Lord Rees–Mogg ( 1982–89 ) also wrote to The Times : ‘ It has been and remains the cardinal principle of the Arts Council since its formation , that the arts should be immunised from political control ’ .
12 Partnership has been and remains the characteristic of successful innovation .
13 When the paper was removed it lifted up the wax-ground where the pencil had been and exposed the metal .
14 The funny thing was that on the day of the theft a man who often used to come and see us , and was generally regarded as a friend of the house , had been and invited the entire family Zina , myself , and both our son and daughter somewhere miles out of town to go and have a barbecue .
15 Leaving everything more or less as it had been and closing the drawer , she turned her attention to the rest of the room .
16 ‘ The people have been and put a sign up . ’
17 so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them
18 Yes , Dragonfly Moonchild she had been and loved the summer-child in her .
19 Been and payed the poll tax .
20 Here it is only necessary to establish what they are and make a note of them .
21 It is a time when we can take a deep breath , assess where we are and make a start on our anticipatory mourning for our fate .
22 What is important is that they are and remain the orientations of most Britons , both at the mass and the elite level .
23 You should work out what your needs are and compile a list of suitable filename extensions .
24 Erm perhaps I can turn the the question on its head and and I think the way the County Council 's looked at it , what would be the implications of not providing for the needs of North Yorkshire , and that 's I think the approach that we have taken in the first instance , is to try and determine what the needs of North Yorkshire are and to borrow a phrase from Professor Lock , in strategic terms to look at er try to achieve full employment in North Yorkshire .
25 They seem to think that you can ask a businessman what his requirements are and get an answer that amounts to a draft system specification .
26 It was agreed to leave them as they are and to take no further action .
27 Therefore the choice is between leaving things as they are and adopting a new definition which is different in substance .
28 There is all the difference in the world between finding out who the single people are and having a statutory register as we have under the community charge .
29 The continents are where they are and have the mountains they have because of the action of the Earth itself ; the eruption of volcanoes and the shifting of plates of the Earth 's crust ( plate tectonics ) .
30 Try and find out what the problems are and find an answer to them , but sometimes this is extremely difficult .
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