Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [coord] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | She had thanked me for ‘ the deep and exhaustive treatment ’ , and added characteristically : ‘ I can not help being pleased — grateful though I should be and am to her in a way — for Pamela Handford [ sic ] Johnson 's errors to be pointed out . |
| 3 | Blackburn ( C.A. , 1968 ) , stressed that the chief officer of police should be and was independent of the executive . |
| 4 | If the B Ed was a degree which enjoyed the status of all other first degrees , then it must be and be seen to be academically respectable . |
| 5 | A slight break in the older man 's voice suggested he already suspected what the answer might be and was afraid . |
| 6 | As the somewhat recalcitrant and irascible member of the famous ‘ What 's My Line ’ panel broadcast on BBC television for years , Gilbert could be and was difficult , but when we met at the Coq d'Or Restaurant on Stratton Street , just off Piccadilly , he was the soul of charm . |
| 7 | None the less , new law could be and was made . |
| 8 | Catholic nationalists could be and were arrested with little suspicion , detained , frequently beaten , and all with little or no possibility of redress . |
| 9 | But the horizon and the problem stood , as it were , on their own feet ; they could be and were independently established . |
| 10 | Written documents could be and were easily forged whereas seals , crosses , medallions etc. were , in the way in which they had been developed and used in pre-Norman Britain , distinctive individual objects , which were less easily forged , more identifiable and more obviously linked to particular individuals . |
| 11 | ( Penley 1988 , p. 11 ) Teresa de Lauretis has described this shift towards a greater interest in reception as in part a delayed effect of feminism 's construction of a new social subject — women — who may be and are legitimately addressed in cinematic practices . |
| 12 | The cumulative effects of section 3(4) ( which provides that no bystander need be or be likely to be present ) and 3(5) ( which says that affray is capable of commission in both public and private places ) complete the march of logic , with the result that if a person assaults another in private ( for example in a domestic assault ) and uses violence ( of such a degree that the other members of the household would be frightened if they were there ) , he is technically guilty of an affray . |
| 13 | And interest in watching Commons TV declined over time ; the numbers who said they would be or were ‘ very interested ’ in watching dropped from 24% before televising started to 10% after three months , with a corresponding rise in those who said they were ‘ not at all interested ’ from 18% to 30% . |
| 14 | Any idea how old it would be and is it worth anything today ? |
| 15 | The dangers of dependence on rich men would be and were regularly pointed out : if the local parties were not themselves independent then they would have to turn to rich outsiders to fight their elections for them , as The Times pointed out in 1911 : |
| 16 | The Engineer 's Representative under the terms of Clause 1 subclause 1 ( e ) of the Conditions of Contract shall be and is hereby authorised to act on the Engineer 's behalf in respect of the following Clauses of the Conditions of Contract : — |
| 17 | Some leases contain rather more elaborate provisos such as : " no demand for or acceptance of rent by the landlord or its agents with knowledge of a breach of any of the covenants on the part of the tenant contained in these presents shall be or be deemed to be a waiver wholly or partially of any such breach but such breach shall be deemed to be a continuing breach of covenant " . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Much of this evil can be and is anticipated and avoided . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the challenge can be and is being met . |
| 24 | We reach this conclusion in the light of the evidence that notwithstanding the rules as to dismissal for theft as applied in the first place … each case can be and is reviewed on the intervention of the security officer who … will make an appropriate recommendation where the case does not warrant dismissal . ’ |
| 25 | Davin , whatever his limitations , is standing on and in an Irishness which can be and is described and mapped , which is not a neutral zone , and which feeds and is fed by a language . |
| 26 | Elections can be and are won or lost on television . |
| 27 | Consequently very different prices can be and are charged for the same or similar things . |
| 28 | There are many more features that can be and are included in public relations proposals but the above are a good foundation . |
| 29 | Within the fragments only a limited amount of variance in the ordering of the tales is possible ; rather more diverse is the order in which the fragments can be and are found to be arranged . |
| 30 | The two rooms in question can be and are still in fact used for the same purpose for which they were used prior to the erection of the staircase . |