Example sentences of "[verb] be [that] they be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 All I know is that they were delivered . ’
2 In a sense I suppose , er what DeKlerk 's government has demonstrated is that they are trying as it were to be impartial and not allow political considerations to influence their judgement about whether Mrs Mandela should go on trial .
3 Right , okay , erm let's now move on to er these other diagnostics , right , like test for structural change these diagnostic test statistics that are calculated for right , because essentially what they 're doing is that they 're testing the assumptions on which ordinary leased squares is based .
4 ‘ What they do n't realise is that they are dealing with a high-risk food product , ’ he warned .
5 One of the answers which emerged was that they were eating diets high in natural fibre — while we , in the West , were stripping this cell-wall material from our day-to-day diet by refining our cereal foods and sugar .
6 There had been no second rescue attempt — the first vessel had been destroyed by a rigged explosion — and the conclusion the survivors had arrived at had been that they were assumed killed .
7 Only two people in this group said that the difficulty had been that they were refused credit .
8 What they had begun to realize was that they were getting a rough deal and that no one else would take any notice .
9 The reason that the overall effects of schemata are difficult to specify is that they are thought to have separate effects on different processes .
10 Some are so widely separated that their motion relative to each other is too small to be measured at all , and all we can really say is that they are travelling through space together , at the same rate and in the same direction .
11 As she started up the steps , he was following her , telling her , ‘ The latest news I have is that they 're planning to return to Olbia today .
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