Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] and [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these animals were and are big : one species which existed around the time of the catastrophe was 15 m ( 50 ft ) long . |
| 2 | Green 's mountains are and were for him unlike those of Scotland with their purple grandeur and exotic shapes , nor did they have their awesome desolation . |
| 3 | That subject to the approval of the Board of Inland Revenue , the Directors be and are hereby authorised to amend the Rules of the Dawson International Savings Related Share Option Scheme into the form presented to this meeting and for the purpose of identification initialled by the Chairman hereof . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That the Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 , the provisions of which are summarised in the Appendix to the letter to members of the Company dated 16th June 1993 , to be constituted by the Rules produced in draft to this meeting and for the purposes of identification initialled by the Chairman hereof , be and is hereby approved and the Directors be and are hereby authorised to do all acts and things which they may consider necessary or expedient for implementing and giving effect to the same including making such amendments to the Rules as may be necessary to gain the approval of the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 5 | I therefore propose that the report of the directors and the audited accounts for the year ended thirty first December nineteen eighty nine now submitted to this meeting be and are hereby er , received and that the final dividend of twelve point five pence , er , net per share , recommended by the directors be and is hereby declared payable on first June nineteen ninety , to holders of ordinary shares of the company on the register , three P M on fourth of May nineteen ninety . |
| 6 | In the first programme , we visited Egypt , Pompeii , the Tivoli , glimpsed Central Park ( are muggers seeking Adam ? ) , and our own Kew en route to establishing that gardens were and are a universal obsession . |
| 7 | ‘ That the Directors be and are hereby authorised to establish and to permit the Company 's subsidiaries to establish such employee share schemes as they consider appropriate for the participation therein of employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries who are resident or working overseas , and from time to time to make to permit the making of such alterations thereto as they consider necessary or appropriate provided always that the terms of such schemes shall , as far as is appropriate having regard to local circumstances and local taxation consideration , be similar to those of the Dawson International Savings Related Share Option Scheme and that the overall limits on the number of Ordinary Shares in the Company which may be subscribed for under all the Company 's employee share schemes shall not be increased thereby and that Ordinary Shares which may be subscribed for under such overseas schemes shall count towards such limits . ’ |
| 8 | Half of that is due to programme reorientation because of the extension of the programme by two years as I understand it , can you spell out what those costs are and are we having to pay more because Germany wants to slow the programme down ? |
| 9 | Can you spell out what those costs are and are we having to pay more because Germany wants to slow the programme down ? |
| 10 | In 1934 , the year of Murder in the Cathedral 's commissioning , he wrote , ‘ one of the reasons why the Morte Darthur is a permanent source of refreshment , is the degree to which the primitive ‘ ritual ’ stories are and are not integrated into the narrative . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Declare : ( 1 ) That on the taking of the accounts and inquiry order to be made and taken herein by Chief Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 the plaintiffs are entitled to raise objection to items in the defendants ' said accounts on the grounds that the items were and are unreasonable in amount but so that any doubts are to be resolved in favour of the defendants . |
| 12 | Moreover , high inflation rates were and are of particular concern because of the danger that the monetary and financial systems might collapse as conventional money no longer becomes accepted as the medium of exchange . |
| 13 | A complete merger , while mooted , was never really on the cards as , apart from philosophical and traditional differences , their practical requirements were and are too different . |
| 14 | The Law Lords were and are few in number ; they tend to sit , otherwise than in the Judicial Committee , rarely . |
| 15 | Let us further assume that the shares were and are worth only £50,000 . |