Example sentences of "[be] and [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Partnership has been and remains the characteristic of successful innovation . |
| 4 | When the paper was removed it lifted up the wax-ground where the pencil had been and exposed the metal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Leaving everything more or less as it had been and closing the drawer , she turned her attention to the rest of the room . |
| 7 | Yes , Dragonfly Moonchild she had been and loved the summer-child in her . |
| 8 | Been and payed the poll tax . |
| 9 | What is important is that they are and remain the orientations of most Britons , both at the mass and the elite level . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Her only way of coping with her over-identification with my situation was to try to reassert control over the child I used to be and prevent the cycle repeating itself . |
| 12 | In this case , goods were sold subject to a retention of title clause ( condition 8:1 of the contract ) which provided : Title of each item of goods sold or agreed to be sold shall remain vested in the Company [ ie the sellers ] until the full purchase price and all additional charges relating to that item and all and any other monies for the time being owing by the customer [ ie the buyers ] to the Company shall have been paid in full to the customer ( and all products into which such items held by the customer ) ( and all products into which such items come to be converted or incorporated ) shall be and remain the property of the Company and shall be held by the customer as trustee for the Company but with liberty for the customer to pass title as the Company 's agent on its own account ( but subject to 8.2 below ) bona fide for full value in the normal course of the customer 's trading . |
| 13 | Towards the end of the era , in fact , the attendants in the salons of homage became alert to the fact that among their few Western visitors , the majority were not as in awe of the Conducator as they might be and photographing the exhibits or taking notes of the sycophantic citations attached to the awards by their Western donors was discouraged . |
| 14 | Managers decide what the objectives of the organisation should be and quantify the targets of achievement for each objective . |
| 15 | I slipped an old Eurythmics tape into the cassette deck I have installed where Armstrong 's meter used to be and adjusted the speakers so the full effect came in the front rather than the back . |
| 16 | This has proved an unfounded anxiety since the design and management of all full-time courses in the polytechnic sector were and remain the responsibility of persons who qualified via the Institution 's external examination system and entered teaching as qualified surveyors after years of service in the public or private sector . |
| 17 | Yeah , that 's why you see , we 've converted , put a wall up where the door were and knocked the wall down and had a door into the house |
| 18 | The effect of reading a Bill a second time is to curb further debate on the general principle for the time being and cause the Bill to go straight to the next stage , which is the committee stage . |
| 19 | Anti-clerical Catalans have long favoured leaving the Sagrada Familia as it is and landscaping the site . |
| 20 | This is now considered to be extremely dangerous — she could bite and break whatever it is and inhale the broken bit . |
| 21 | Keep the rudder where it is and allow the speed to increase a few knots so that both you and the student can observe the exact position of the rudder pedals . |
| 22 | The central case of the judicial function is the final and binding resolution of bipartite ( i.e. two-party ) disputes as to facts , or as to the existence or scope of legal rights or duties , by means of finding facts , deciding what the law is and applying the law to the facts . |
| 23 | So that 's usually the way things happen , the president ca n't spell out things and dot the Is and cross the Ts . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) That the judge 's failure to direct the jury adequately as to the defendant 's previous good character was a material misdirection which could have caused injustice to him ; that at any stage of the trial the jury were entitled to the judge 's assistance on the facts as well as on the law , the withholding of which constituted an irregularity which might , depending on the circumstances , be material ; and that the judge had erred in failing to ascertain what the jury 's problem was and to give the requisite help ( post , pp. 166C , F–G , 167G , H ) . |
| 25 | Masked and armed , they tied up 52year-old John Bayles and his wife , Elizabeth with a washing line , threatened to burn their home down if they did not reveal where their money was and ransacked the house . |
| 26 | Make her presence known , or stay where she was and run the risk of being thought an eavesdropper ? |
| 27 | We wanted to recreate it as it was and gave the house a medieval feel . |
| 28 | Taking her courage in both hands , she left her bag where it was and turned the knob , pushing open the door into the kitchen which smelled so warm and inviting and blessedly familiar that a lump rose in her throat . |
| 29 | He may have been called ‘ Bubbles ’ because of his corpulence , his high spirits and his weakness for champagne , but he knew who he was and considered the whole business of being in FI , and being taken seriously in it , as something of a lark . |
| 30 | For some reason , though , she found herself following him , once again , even though she would have been far better staying where she was and letting the anger drain out of her . |