Example sentences of "they [be] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Let them be reshod . ’
2 But we 've got a very close-knit family , in that if two people are n't getting on , everybody in the family will make them be friends .
3 If undesirables were eliminated , let them be members of the bourgeoisie , as in Russia , rather than paupers .
4 Let them be wives to you .
5 But how can they be Copts ?
6 Lieutenant Hammon , writing in 1635 , went further : ‘ I think they be halfe fish , halfe flesh , for they drinke like fishes and sleep like hogges . ’
7 If you are a commoner they will not be among the nobility , since you can not hope to compete with them , nor will they be people living far away with whom you have no dealings .
8 ‘ Would they be voyeurs ? ’
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