Example sentences of "[verb] [be] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that the Spanish race has been and gone , it is a matter of clearing Mansell 's name and it would seem that the evidence offered gave the court food for thought . |
| 2 | The Chancellor said the Conservative Party ‘ never has been and never will be the party of devaluation ’ , and underlined the ‘ paramount need ’ to fight inflation . |
| 3 | Lewes contends that , whereas these gynaecophobic tendencies were from the start challenged by women analysts , the same could not occur in relation to the homophobia of the discipline since homosexuals were systematically excluded from it , with the result that ‘ the psychoanalytic discourse on homosexuality has been and still is formulated by non-homosexuals about homosexuals ’ ( The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality , 21 , 237 — 8 ) . |
| 4 | Thus at a time when Africa needs to industrialize , to create both exports and jobs , a review of the last thirty years shows how difficult this task has been and will be . |
| 5 | First , there always has been and always will be room for a small shopkeeper with a bright idea . |
| 6 | A free spirit has been and gone . |
| 7 | The controversial policy of gassing entire badger populations known to be infected with TB has been and gone , and today two lines of research are being followed . |
| 8 | I wanted to see something of those countries which were so much part of what Europe has been and will become , and which were yet so unknown . |
| 9 | Monitoring of such implementation and enforcement has been and remains insufficient . |
| 10 | MI5 will remain as unaccountable as it always has been and since it blatantly ignored the 1952 directive for over three decades without once being publicly called to account there is no reason to believe that MI5 will be any more law-abiding now . |
| 11 | … a flood which drowns French civilization and carries everything away as debris … a city which is a huge hotel where everyone has been and where no one remembers having seen anyone . |
| 12 | In the field of housing there has been and is likely to continue to be a major growth in housing associations , particularly after provisions are implemented which will allow council tenants to opt out of council control and into housing associations or tenancy with private landlords . |
| 13 | The fact that evaluation has been and continues to be a matter of concern probably reflects the uncertainty amongst librarians of user education methodologies . |
| 14 | Just how much spending has been and will be hit is the talk of the research world in France at the moment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the two months since the IVA was made , the total debt has been and is continuing to be materially reduced . |
| 18 | Such an attitude is particularly rife in the USA where the youth cult has been and remains strong ( Levin and Levin 1980 ) . |
| 19 | Much more can , has been and should be written about teachers ' collective action , and I am not going to pursue it here . |
| 20 | This study has been and doubtless will continue to be enormously fruitful in many ways , but the question which Troeltsch 's own work so clearly poses needs to be faced . |
| 21 | It is not therefore surprising that Barth 's work has been and continues to be controversial . |
| 22 | It may well be a belief which has been and still is , widely shared by top industrialists themselves . |
| 23 | The biggest obstacle has been and is the nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | From January 1983 , married women will have the right to apply for Family Income Supplement ( a means-tested supplement for low wage-earners with children which currently specifies that only the husband in a married couple may apply ) and , provided the couple agree that she has been and is the main breadwinner , a married woman may then apply for means-tested supplementary benefit . |
| 26 | Probably the major contribution has been and will continue to be to encourage a more realistic and informed approach to social problems and matters of social policy . |
| 27 | If this is how her work is to be read , then we are of course back with all the problems of the kairos approach : why has history been what it has been and given what history has been what may be said of God 's intention in relation to women ? |
| 28 | Partnership has been and remains the characteristic of successful innovation . |
| 29 | And as soon as we begin to enquire into the meaning of the term , we discover that it has been and still is understood in a variety of different ways , which may have a common core or root but are not identical . |
| 30 | 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 . |