Example sentences of "be [conj] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the , the answer to the question then , are or is foreign policy making the same for all governments , again there are similarities . |
| 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 | Non of that product is or ever has been or is ever going to be sold . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the two months since the IVA was made , the total debt has been and is continuing to be materially reduced . |
| 6 | The biggest obstacle has been and is the nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory . |
| 7 | These maxima were subject to the proviso that ‘ in such shires and countries that where it hath been and is now used to give less wages , that in those shires and countries they shall give and the taker of the wages be compelled according as they have been used to take . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Naturally , each of the cases referred to in the report by Sir Thomas Hetherington and Mr. Chalmers has been and is being investigated . |
| 11 | The damage has been and is being made good . |
| 12 | Strategically , what happens there has always been and is bound to be of vital interest to Britain . |
| 13 | Although , having once decided under section 40(1) that an award was warranted , I would be required by section 41(1) to take account of any benefit the employer ‘ might reasonably be expected to derive ’ , section 40(1) requires me to decide whether the patent is of outstanding benefit , and I conclude that this entails my satisfying myself that such benefit has already been and is being achieved . |
| 14 | Er , has been and is continue , continuing to be whittled away , so workers in Shropshire are , are in a poor position , and , and this is an opportunity to , to give them some help , to replace some of that statutory protection which is being removed . |
| 15 | Electronically created data has been and is being produced in a number of different organizational and technological environments . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | ‘ The health of people like her has not been and is not safe in Tory hands , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Although there still exists the notion that administration should be or is apolitical and merely a neutral tool of the government , this is palpably not so in practically all states , industrialised or less developed or ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 19 | The mental element or mens rea for this offence is explained in Section 6(4) of the 1986 Act , viz : A person is guilty of an offence under section 5 only if he intends his words or behaviour , or the writing , sign or other visible representation , to be threatening , abusive or insulting , or is aware that it may be threatening , abusive or insulting or ( as the case may be ) he intends his behaviour to be or is aware that it may be disorderly . |
| 20 | In simple language , it is normally sufficient for the occupier to make reasonable endeavours to keep out or chase off the potential or actual intruder who is likely to be or is in a dangerous situation . |
| 21 | Each of them really turns around the theory that prior to birth the unborn child is not a persona juridica and , therefore , no duty of care can be or is owed to it . |
| 22 | A person 's membership of the committee is automatically terminated : ( i ) if he becomes bankrupt ( his trustee replaces him ) or he compounds with his creditors ; ( ii ) if he is not present or represented at three consecutive meetings ( unless at the third meeting it is resolved that this rule will not apply ) ; and ( iii ) if he ceases to be or is found never to have been a creditor ( r 6.158 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ A person is guilty of an offence under section 5 only if he intends his words or behaviour , or the writing , sign or other visible representation , to be threatening , abusive or insulting , or is aware that it may be threatening , abusive or insulting or ( as the case may be ) he intends his behaviour to be or is aware that it may be disorderly . ’ |
| 24 | At the surface of the Earth , which is assumed to be a sphere of radius R and uniform density p , the relative acceleration of two objects towards the Earth as a result of such a fifth force would be if is the usual gravitational acceleration and Δ ( B ) is the difference between the values of B for the two bodies . |
| 25 | Lise 's dance when she sweeps the floor before helping Mother Simone to spin is an excellent example of how the subtle timing of gesture can be and is helped by the appropriate choice of music . |
| 26 | To state that gender difference can be and is being maintained through cross-dressing and inversion is to maintain or imply the crucial claim even while apparently surrendering it : the difference in question is capable of working in terms of custom and culture ( and is thereby contestable ) rather than nature and divine law ( which are immutable ) . |
| 27 | Such experiences of sexual liberation bear witness to the socially constructed ‘ nature ’ of identity with respect both to its contingency and its resilience : on the one hand the self can be and is experienced as radically different in the space of the other ; on the other hand it the extinction of self is the precondition of passing into the ecstasy with and through the other , it is an extinction which has to be replayed over and again as a constitutive part of sexual ecstasy itself . |
| 28 | Much of this evil can be and is anticipated and avoided . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the challenge can be and is being met . |
| 30 | The interval between two events P 1 and P 2 with coordinate separation ( ) is defined to be and is easily shown to be invariant under Lorentz transformations . |