Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] be and [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Catholic nationalists could be and were arrested with little suspicion , detained , frequently beaten , and all with little or no possibility of redress . |
| 3 | Consequently very different prices can be and are charged for the same or similar things . |
| 4 | Blackburn ( C.A. , 1968 ) , stressed that the chief officer of police should be and was independent of the executive . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | Elections can be and are won or lost on television . |
| 7 | 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 . |