Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Trippy hit a couple of bass chords , classic threatening music , and shouted : ‘ The crew be turning ugly , Cap'n . ’ |
| 32 | Only if I am satisfied that the economic , safety and technical criteria relating to groundwater can be met will public funding be made available for construction of the barrage . |
| 33 | At the meeting , the Committee advised that permission be granted subject to certain conditions . |
| 34 | He declined Dinah 's offer ; no doubt it would in any case be thought improper for two young ladies to drive a young man home . |
| 35 | But in no way can effective environmental policies be rendered compatible with the anti-statist , non-interventionist creed which has inspired a good deal of Thatcherite rhetoric . |
| 36 | Another , which will infuriate both Hollywood and Mickey Kantor , America 's chief trade negotiator , is the French demand that EC broadcasting rules restricting foreign TV programmes be left unaffected by the round . |
| 37 | Their children will in many cases be born stateless ( unless they happen to be born in a country where birth confers the right of citizenship ) . |
| 38 | A ministerial meeting in Dhaka , the Bangladesh capital , attended by representatives of 30 of the world 's least-developed countries ( LDCs ) , ended on Feb. 12 by urging that the 42 countries in this category be given special treatment , including a write-off of all outstanding debt , doubling of official development assistance , and special preferential access for their commodity exports to the developed world . |
| 39 | Both meetings had been dominated by calls from LDC representatives who urged that countries in the LDC category be given special treatment , including the writing-off of all outstanding debt [ for inclusion of Namibia in the list of LDCs see p. 38263 ] . |
| 40 | TK50 and 1600bpi tape must of course be mounted /FOREIGN ; both these and the RL02 disk have the label ‘ ISSUE ’ . |
| 41 | the perfect adaption of the internal arrangements of the new India Office to the requirements of the Secretary of State for India in Council , Mr. M. Digby Wyatt 's experience be made available , and that the necessary designs and plans be accordingly prepared by him and Mr. Scott in communication with each other . |
| 42 | Thus , Williams v Singer is authority for the proposition that if the trustees of , say , a life interest trust direct that trust income be paid direct to the beneficiary the trustees escape an income tax charge . |
| 43 | The notion of a duty to respect creditor interests gives rise to a number of conceptual and practical difficulties ( e.g. should present and future creditors be afforded different protection ? ) . |
| 44 | It is recommended that a copy of the LIFESPAN database files be taken prior to running the program . |
| 45 | The integrity of a community 's conception of fairness requires that the political principles necessary to justify the legislature 's assumed authority be given full effect in deciding what a statute it has enacted means . |
| 46 | Confrontation of issues and attitudes will be polite and respectful in a professional manner but it may nonetheless be a very painful process that would not in customary terms be considered friendly , although in truth it is a most fundamental act of friendship from one human being to another . |
| 47 | Would all the energies and the enthusiasm of the teachers who have taken part in the records of achievement movement be rendered pointless ? |
| 48 | Should alcohol be made illegal ? |
| 49 | That congregations be given ample opportunity to sing in services , even where they have to be unaccompanied ( 528–529 , 540 ) . |
| 50 | Even then Wilson refused to sign the budget bill until congress had passed enabling legislation which provided for a suspension of the minimum school financing requirement ( which , under the terms of a 1988 initiative , had been set at 40 per cent of the state 's general fund ) should the education loan be ruled unconstitutional in court . |
| 51 | So , let's get this straight : first edition collectors do buy new books , preferably hardback and preferably mint , and all things being well , here is one of the many titles for which these loyal and driven souls will this season be queuing twelve-deep : |
| 52 | The deeply sultry singer who 's chart success this year includes Love Thy Will Be Done disappeared from public view four months ago . |
| 53 | Should British social scientists be adopting French statistical methods or vice versa ? |
| 54 | Nor could peasant society be kept unchanged over 250 years . |
| 55 | Only with permanent ground cover can the soil be kept intact . |
| 56 | And for how long could France be kept isolated ? |
| 57 | It would be a prime requirement that the airspeed and behaviour at the stall be determined prior to the first landing . |
| 58 | Should cannabis be made legal ? |
| 59 | LAWYERS acting for enraged Dunoon hoteliers and guest house owners have written to Cowal Tourist Board chiefs demanding that Monday 's vote for a merger with neighbouring Isle of Bute be declared null and void . |
| 60 | In an act of " self defence " , the Supreme Court also threatened to consider an MNR request made 18 months previously to the National Electoral Court that the May 1989 presidential elections be declared null and void because of alleged gross irregularities in the departments of Beni , Oruro and Potosi [ see p. 36652 ] . |