Example sentences of "and the [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the balcony has been reserved for couples only — so that single customers can not become Peeping Toms . |
| 2 | The question to whom the omelette and the statue belong is another matter , and Salmond pointed out that the attempts of the older lawyers to transplant the Roman law of specificatio , confusio and the like to our system are of small practical use at the present day . |
| 3 | But its price tag of around £100 million made it too expensive for a purely national project , and the cost has been split between three countries with Britain and the US joining the Netherlands . |
| 4 | Mr Brennan said : ‘ Throughout , I and the Board have been sensitive to the toll on our workforce resultant from this process . |
| 5 | Such project ‘ islands ’ created additional suspicion within recipient governments and the approach has been largely abandoned . |
| 6 | SMALL businesses do not seem to know about the industrial building allowances introduced last November , and the uptake has been very disappointing , David Wilson , chairman of Wilson Bowden , the Midlands house-builder and developer , said yesterday . |
| 7 | Their lawyers say the couple have been robbed of the opportunity to become a mother and father and the child has been denied the chance to nurtured by the ‘ these loving parents ’ . |
| 8 | And their conclusion is , he could n't stand up to , to Lloyd George in and the reason was these were strong , erm , male leaders , and Wilson , when it came to being with men , er , was weak , and the question asked is , why was he weak in dealing with men ? |
| 9 | Section 34(2) provides for the application to be made by the authority or the child and the question has been raised whether the child , in that context , means the child himself if he is of sufficient age and understanding to make the application . |
| 10 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 11 | By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 12 | Radio broadcasters have to be content with a low status , and the medium has been starved of funds . |
| 13 | The Mini was back in use and the Glory had been relegated to the garage until she ‘ had time to check it out with Mr Chan ’ . |
| 14 | Both the BBC microcomputer and the Spectrum have been plagued by delays and faults . |
| 15 | I had a little snigger ; it had to be fully ten minutes since the last stroke of eleven , and the thunder had been murmuring dark warnings ever since . |
| 16 | ‘ The front has been blown away , a wall is keeling over and the ceiling has been badly damaged . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , this lava lake is one of the most photographed features in Hawaii , and the crater has been labelled in suitable post-card terminology ‘ The House of Everlasting Fire ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I read in my Harmsworth Magazine once that a man died because he ate rabbit pie and the rabbit had been eating belladonna . |
| 19 | On Aug. 29 an amnesty was announced for all political prisoners , said by the authorities to number 66 ; of these 44 had been arrested after the inter-ethnic massacres of August 1988 , and the rest had been accused of a plot against the government in March 1989 . |
| 20 | There was talk before the start of the competition having become more intense ; of the gap between McLaren and the rest having been reduced to the point where we might have a race on our hands . |
| 21 | The Census Dissemination Unit has been allocated a certain amount of minidisk space on the Amdahl at Manchester to hold it ; this consists of 5 minidisks each with a capacity of 1.2 gigabytes ; two contain system files , together with the postcode/Enumeration District directory and some text files with other information , and the rest have been used to store raw data files . |
| 22 | The structure which was destroyed by the construction of the town wall contained a row of some ten rooms ; the walls were about 1 m ( 3¼ ft ) thick , and the structure had been roofed with limestone slates . |
| 23 | You 're quite right that it 's been dealt with in an extraordinary number of soaps because , in Brookside , Tracey Corkhill has had an abortion and the story 's been tied in with fatherhood — with Barry , her lover , losing out on fatherhood . |
| 24 | The vital phrase is ‘ any computer ’ at the end of section 1(1) ( a ) and the Act has been drafted , it is submitted , so as to deal with someone who misuses a computer , whether he accesses it indirectly by using another computer , perhaps in other premises , or whether he accesses it directly , as happened in the present case . |
| 25 | Once you have accepted the offer and the position has been suitably documented , you will hardly ever be able to persuade a court or tribunal to upset it unless you can convince them that you were forced to agree as a result of economic duress . |
| 26 | The US , faced by the revival of European and Japanese competition , by inflation and the costs of the Vietnam war , could no longer remain the foundation stone of a world currency system and the dollar had been ‘ floated ’ in August 1971 . |
| 27 | The monopoly was normal practice , and the boundary chosen was intended simply to make sure that the Company did not go east of the Bay into areas claimed by New France ; nobody had any idea that the river system of the Bay gave the Company an area — known as Rupert 's Land after Prince Rupert , the Governor of the Company — that covered millions of square miles to the west . |
| 28 | They were not wholly successful in this , and the compromise reached was termed ‘ two-trades response ’ . |
| 29 | In the context of urban and regional geography the debate has focused mainly on employment and the concern has been primarily with the definition of deindustrialization as an absolute loss of manufacturing jobs . |
| 30 | Self-confidence , certainly , self-awareness , and the ability to organise are qualities which many of us value . |