Example sentences of "[subord] they be to be " in BNC.

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31 The guidelines say that embryos may only be frozen and stored if they are to be used for in vitro fertilisation later on .
32 The TMI-2 accident now forms an important part of the considerable experience available to us from PWR operations around the world , and this summary shows that the CEGB and NNC must carefully assess and analyse the accident if they are to be certain that all of the relevant lessons from it have been satisfactorily incorporated in the British PWR .
33 Tchaikovsky is without doubt one of these , and Francesca and Marche Slave ( both composed incidentally in 1876 ) require an approach bordering on the hysterical if they are to be heard to their best advantage .
34 Pictures then , if they are to be understood and enjoyed , need to be talked about , and talked about most profitably with a more-experienced reader .
35 Yet all couples have to make the break from home , emotionally if not physically , if they are to be free to make a marriage work .
36 Long-nets have to be set properly if they are to be effective .
37 Being aware of the interval structure of scales is vitally important if they are to be used creatively and effectively against chords .
38 Plantings must be bold if they are to be appreciated from a house window .
39 All pupils should pursue the programmes of study and attainment targets if they are to be able to participate fully in adult life and employment .
40 Informal groups should be organized on the basis of free self-expression if they are to be most helpful .
41 It seems common sense to place the taller varieties at the back of the beds , or in the middle if they are to be seen from all angles , but other points can also be taken into account .
42 In a post-apartheid South Africa all its people must have equal access to both the ballot box and the market place , if they are to be liberated not only from oppression , but from poverty .
43 ‘ The Pakistan bowlers have added a new dimension to bowling — one that needs to be carefully noted by other countries if they are to be equally successful swingers of the old ball . ’
44 They must be available accurately and consistently if they are to be relied upon .
45 Usually they take about three weeks to make but a further nine months can elapse before brass-polishing is completed especially if they are to be exhibited before use .
46 Windows have to be cleaned often if they are to be kept clean , and literary clarity , too , is always likely to be an effect of long labour .
47 The net effect of these injunctions ( as well as others we shall meet later ) is to ensure that the natural inability of human beings to respond ‘ perfectly ’ to all situations , however demanding or paradoxical , is construed by those human beings as clear evidence of personal inadequacy : they lack the ability , resilience or ready-made savoir-faire that they somehow ought to have , in limitless supply , if they are to be able to look themselves in the eye in the bathroom mirror each morning .
48 The natural sciences have proved so enormously successful in modern times that they are now commonly regarded as the supremely useful and valid intellectual discipline , and as setting the standard to which all other kinds of enquiry must conform if they are to be taken seriously as dealing with truth and reality .
49 The assumption seems to be that research involving animals , particularly if they are to be harmed in any way , must at least be justified in advance by its probable benefits for human beings , or possibly other animals .
50 This ignores the reality that attitudinal change , changes in working practices or skills and institutional change at the very least need careful and often time-consuming planning and preparation if they are to be successfully achieved .
51 Indeed , if performance criteria are to be national , if they are to have currency throughout the system , and if they are to be as detailed and specific as the proponents of criterion-referenced testing insist , then this reform presages central intervention in the school curriculum of a most emphatic kind .
52 Graded assessment and modular accreditation schemes are likely to hasten this process since they too involve the erosion of traditional subject-based teaching and curriculum boundaries and require a much greater degree of organizational flexibility and ongoing review and guidance to be provided through course tutoring if they are to be successful .
53 All presidents must move carefully and skilfully if they are to be effective leaders .
54 Or control might be exercised in the interests of defendants , seeking to ensure that if they are to be proceeded against abroad information reaches them with the speed and security which the use of official channels is supposed ( probably quite unrealistically ) to guarantee .
55 Nurses working in neonatal units need to be committed to security procedures if they are to be effective , and checking should be carried out diligently according to procedure .
56 While courses such as intravenous therapy updates are readily acceptable and have immediately observable results in terms of clinical care delivery , less tangible skills such as teaching need to be built up gradually if they are to be successful , another factor which may affect motivation .
57 Such therapies require full commitment from both patients and healthcare professionals if they are to be correctly performed and patients ' quality of life improved
58 Scrub potatoes in cold water with a vegetable brush or domestic scouring sponge , particularly if they are to be cooked in their skins .
59 Even for low attainers projects are done individually if they are to be assessed .
60 Yet , if they are to be overcome , it is essential that social workers themselves should play a part in overcoming them .
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