Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 2 | Also that you be the driver of the motor car having been required to produce your driving licence for examination to the police officer , failed to do so . |
| 3 | ‘ All I 'm demanding is that you be the guarantor of your brother 's good behaviour . |
| 4 | But all I 'm suggesting , Ronni , is that we be a bit flexible . |
| 5 | Our safety regulations er dictate that they be a certain distance from the crowd , so that if anything did go wrong , the aircraft would be able to er get out of the way , but no , there is not going to be any danger at all , they 'll make their approaches to the base as if they were attacking , and then we 'll have simulated ground bursts , a large fire as it were , on the ground , it will be going off , providing the sound effects for it , but it 's going to be just a great thing to sit and watch . |
| 6 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 7 | I said , ‘ I will give up everything for this orchestra , but in return I must ask that it be a lifetime 's possession . ’ |
| 8 | They insisted that she consult a psychiatrist and , fortunately , Laura had the strength to insist that it be a woman . |
| 9 | He insisted that it be a shoemaker and the ; prostitute be male . |
| 10 | I was happy because I was now ‘ on the inside ’ , doing war-work and feeling , for the first time , that we were really a partnership ; and I was proud that I had grown more confident , and mature enough to take Leslie as he was , and no longer demanded — as he had once said that I did — that he be the White Knight . |
| 11 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 12 | it is n't the case of just being a fireman say get a rescue tender and whirl it up and erm there about , you 've got to get , you 've got to be a fire , if you be a fireman you 've got to get in everything erm |
| 13 | That 's cos you be a country yoke |
| 14 | If there are those in our party who approach this subject in a niggling , grudging spirit , who would have to have forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another , if they be a majority , in God 's name let them choose a man to lead them . |
| 15 | I believe it to be a natural duty , and if it be a natural duty it is a divine duty and how can a husband have power to discharge a divine duty ? |
| 16 | In the case of a defendant who uses words , a person can hardly fail to be aware of what he is saying , although he may possibly not know that what he is displaying ( if it be a book ) contains offensive material of which others are aware but he is not . |
| 17 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 18 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
| 19 | The fact that the media regularly confront their audience with discourse and images about gays requires that a vocabulary for dealing with such awkwardnesses be discovered , even if it be the lexicon of bigotry and stereotype . |
| 20 | Again , so far as the language of the statute is concerned , I can see no reason in principle why the constable in the course of explaining to the driver his rights under section 8(2) should not tell him , if it be the case , that he , the constable , will require the replacement specimen to be of blood . |
| 21 | If it be the case that a decision on the amount to offer can be made now , then the offer should be made , either extrajudicially or by Tender . |
| 22 | The making of the assessment of damages in the light of all facts known at the date of the trial enables the court to take into account , if it be the case , the fact that the consequences of the plaintiff 's injuries were more serious than at first thought ; the fact that the expenses to which the plaintiff would be put in consequence of his injuries were higher than was first thought ; the fact that the plaintiff has died ; or the fact that the plaintiff has , since the accident , volunteered to be made redundant . |
| 23 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 24 | A spreadsheet program does n't replace the traditional accounts package as a means of keeping track of where a business spends its money but it be a powerful tool for preparing analyses or projections . |
| 25 | Thomas discussed the relationship between love and poetry much later in Feminine Influence on the Poet : ‘ The love-poem is not for the beloved , for it is not worthy , as it is the least thing that is given to her , and none knows this better than she unless it be the lover … . |
| 26 | I do not think there has ever been a period in history when there has been such a violent and irreversible change in the political and social order ( unless it be the long-term consequences of the Russian Revolution ) . |
| 27 | But that transition , in the sharpness of its break with the past , its revolutionary significance for the future , has perhaps no historical parallel , unless it be the neolithic revolution in the early stages of human history . |
| 28 | But the chapter , having no protector after God unless it be the Roman pontiff , asserted that for a certainty unless he had that church demolished the metropolitical dignity would , for the most part , be transferred to it . |
| 29 | All applications , unless the judge otherwise directs or unless it be an " excepted application " , shall be made to the district judge . |
| 30 | And if you dream you see two moons touching each other , you will certainly be marry 'd very speedily , whether you be a young man , maid or widow . |