Example sentences of "which they be [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it even speak from some recognition , however disavowed , that police practices transgress the ‘ rules of civilized conduct ’ which they are supposed to be upholding , and nowhere more obviously than in their treatment of black people ? |
| 2 | In the area of hypertext , the choice of which particular system to use is essentially a pragmatic one ; many of the available ones display appropriate behaviour at the depth to which they are likely to be investigated . |
| 3 | A virtue of the postclassical perspective is that , although it too is concerned with differences in individual dispositions towards crime , it allows more readily for changes in such dispositions , and for a more dynamic relationship between them and the situations in which they are likely to be activated . |
| 4 | On the morning of the days on which they were due to be announced , the dealing manager of DPR Futures would scream at the AEs : " This is it . |
| 5 | Had there been another mass breakout attempt in the night for which they were all to be punished ? |
| 6 | The Royal Navy relieved these men of the burden of privileged birth , gave them a peer-group of brother officers and an isolated , artificial microcosm of society in which they were free to be themselves . |
| 7 | He wondered if the fact that there were no tracks in the direction from which they were supposed to be coming would be noticed , and thought not . |
| 8 | Slicing already inadequate budgets down to the lowest possible level would reduce care managers ' ability to respond flexibly to user need at the very point at which they were supposed to be maximising choice . |
| 9 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |