Example sentences of "be [conj] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tree Collection , as purchased in 1972 from Tree 's last surviving daughter , the late Lady Cory-Wright , has been and remains of incalculable value to biographers and researchers into Tree 's production and turn-of-the-century staging in general . |
| 2 | The fact that evaluation has been and continues to be a matter of concern probably reflects the uncertainty amongst librarians of user education methodologies . |
| 3 | It is not therefore surprising that Barth 's work has been and continues to be controversial . |
| 4 | Erm this first two we 'd tell people the answers to , so what answer would this one be that times by ten and all that happens . |
| 5 | However , as much of this stock has not become owner-occupied , it may well be that increases in market values will cope with the disrepair problem . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Though every responsible artist must know the annals of his art ( no one more than Pound insisted on that ) , still every artwork that is worth anything not only can be but has to be new , unprecedented . |
| 8 | Daily turnover rates are expected to be as follows in Year 1 : |
| 9 | But those mythic monsters were as dwarves to the waves that inhabit other oceans . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property . |
| 11 | Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property . |
| 12 | If in the opinion of the court a summons for recovery of land can not be served in accordance with Ord 7 , rr 4 – 10 , an order may be made on request in N 220 for service on the husband or wife of the defendant , a person living with but not married to the defendant , or upon anyone who is or appears to be authorised by the defendant to reside or carry on business in the premises , to manage them or to safeguard or deal with the premises or contents thereof ( Ord 7 , r 15(1) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 13 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 14 | A cumbersome bureaucracy has grown up at Lloyd 's that panders to the market 's parochial interests rather than to its wider good . |
| 15 | Oh , Stour , the river Stour , yeah , eh , erm , that looks as if he 's that looks as if is |
| 16 | Its effect is that states in the tails of the distribution N(e) become traps that confine electrons to limited regions of the semiconductor . |
| 17 | By contrast , how is the primary school to manage what it is that passes to the secondary school ? |
| 18 | The only certainty in today 's fast-moving home entertainment industry is that advances in product technology will occur at an even faster rate . |
| 19 | The idea is that recruits from the towns will weed the crops . |
| 20 | They used to run down into the Nerd , or whatever river it is that runs through Ealing , and throw themselves in , yelling about the love of Jesus . |
| 21 | One of the major stumbling blocks in the criminal prosecution of corporations and their officials is that costs to the state become excessive as the case is stretched out for endless months and sometimes years . |
| 22 | A recent investigation of moorhens is one of the first studies to show exactly what it is that makes for a high quality mate ( Science , vol 220 , p 413 ) . |
| 23 | A second limitation on actions contained in s11A(4) of the Limitation Act 1980 ( as inserted by the CPA 1987 , Sched 1 ) , is that claims for personal injuries or property damage can not be brought more than three years of becoming aware of the damage , the defect and the identity of the defendant , subject to the ultimate cut-off of ten years . |
| 24 | All I see is that wonders upon wonders are opening before us . |
| 25 | It also means that whatever part of the brain it is that deals with matters grammatical can be regarded as relatively low in the so-called sub-recursive hierarchy of computing machines — putting it within easier reach , perhaps , of the evolution of cognitive capacities ‘ from below ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Title to the property is and has at all material times been registered at H.M. |
| 28 | They are as follows with their running number and delineation of each vehicle . |
| 29 | The grades which are used are as follows in Figure 32.3 : |
| 30 | The evaluation was and continues to be conducted by the Department of General Practice of the University of Edinburgh under Professor John Howie . |