Example sentences of "they [be] [prep] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Informal groups should be organized on the basis of free self-expression if they are to be most helpful . |
| 4 | It is one thing to speak of involving the student , " teaching concepts rather than facts " , " practising skills " and all the other catch phrases of educational discourse ; it is quite another thing to put them into practice , to find out how to involve the student , to elucidate which concepts are of most importance and which facts are necessary to their understanding , and particularly to distinguish which are the key skills and how they are to be most usefully practised with these students in this situation . |
| 5 | Even as a measure of liability , it is of less importance now that shares are almost invariably issued on terms that they are to be fully paid up on or shortly after allotment and are frequently issued at a price exceeding their nominal value . |
| 6 | Latterly it has become increasingly apparent that neighbouring small-scale communities , even when they are lumped together under the same " tribal " label , are just as likely to be sharply contrasted as they are to be very much the same . |
| 7 | Children are more likely to obtain jobs in the class bracket of their fathers than they are to be socially mobile . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The word ‘ strategy ’ , or indeed , ‘ management ’ , for example , implies that choices are available ; and choices , if they are to be rationally defensible , must be made by reference to known and accepted principles . |
| 10 | Audiences ' large capacities for ersatz-importance show how eager they are to be deeply stirred ; how easily gulled ; how low the threshold of enjoyment must be set for music of our time . |
| 11 | Such therapies require full commitment from both patients and healthcare professionals if they are to be correctly performed and patients ' quality of life improved |
| 12 | Local education boards were established to have oversight of the day-to-day operation of the schools within their area , although they were to be firmly guided on the details of the curriculum by means of the Elementary Code of 1903 . |
| 13 | They were to be indirectly elected from the main local authorities . |
| 14 | ‘ Specialists ’ might have to enjoy even better conditions of life under socialism than they had under capitalism if they were to be well motivated . |
| 15 | As with the Merseyside Task Force , they were to be primarily concerned with project development and not with issues of strategy . |
| 16 | All were required to get official sanction for their enclosure and to provide evidence of the means by which they were to be physically provided for . |
| 17 | They expressed surprise at the figures I produced , and they were to be even more surprised in 1973 when a survey far more extensive than mine gave the number as 1,737,000 . |
| 18 | But if the Conservative Party thought that it was cornering the market in citizenship , they were to be quickly disillusioned . |
| 19 | Running costs were therefore not to be cut by NETRHA and indeed they were to be substantially increased . |
| 20 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |
| 21 | Part of the difficulty with the image came from the noisy fears of the critics , especially those who insisted that comprehensive schools would , if they were to be as good as grammar schools , have to be huge . |
| 22 | They were to be very ‘ diplomatic ’ with recalcitrant poor peasants , and on no account were they to take to court more than a small minority in any one area , even if a majority were guilty . |
| 23 | There are people now in the Wag Club whose musical digestive systems would probably collapse if they were to be inadvertently fed a powerchord . |
| 24 | But feminists rapidly became aware that the state itself was patriarchal and needed profound transformation if they were to be fully represented in the nation 's political and moral life . |
| 25 | The governor offered a formal , white-gloved hand to each member of the Sherman family in turn , but when the affably smiling senator began to say how pleased they were to be there , the aide-de-camp immediately cut him short and motioned the family aside so that the governor could begin a formal speech . |