Example sentences of "be [conj] they [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The advantages of these methods are that they allow for careful preparation of material and can make use of the best teachers available .
2 But above all their value to user education is that they act as focal points , so that if practitioners have a problem there is an information centre or clearinghouse to take it to as a first resort .
3 One feature of the use of both dependency ratios and population projections is that they concentrate upon expected changes in structures .
4 The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world .
5 A problem sometimes associated with salespeople who have worked for the same company for many years is that they rely on established customers to provide repeat orders rather than actively seeking new business .
6 One guess is that they work in strict alternation , perhaps in obedience to a monthly nerve signal from the brain .
7 Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores .
8 Is it possible to define what it is that they have in common ?
9 And the only record that we have in scripture of any evidence of folk having received the Holy Spirit was that they spoke with other tongues .
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