Example sentences of "[prep] they be [prep] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The young Edward Fitzgerald , who became a sceptic , wrote to his friend Thackeray , ‘ I think the evidence for them is to be doubted .
2 ‘ In return for a cessation of violence , amnesties have been granted to the Furs and a number of them are to be co-opted onto the Government .
3 The ‘ Executive ’ formulates policies , procures the passing of the necessary laws , puts the policies into effect and even , on occasion , determines the mode , if any , in which disputes arising out of them are to be determined .
4 In such circumstances it is absolutely necessary that the school should have an admissions policy of some kind in order to select from all those who have expressed such preference which of them are to be accepted and which rejected .
5 Some of them are to be found in Checkmate when the Red Pawns pick their way from square to square , whilst their Queen guides her King to his throne with tender steps .
6 Few of them are to be found in the top echelons of racing .
7 Most of them are to be found in a narrow range of occupations and over half are office or secretarial workers [ see Table 2.5 ] .
8 Most of them are to be found in southern and Mediterranean Europe , an area in terms of its society and institutions closer to France than to Prussia or Russia .
9 If a taxpayer has two residences he can elect which of them is to be treated as his main residence ( s222(5) ) for the purpose of the exemption and notwithstanding the terms of the above concession the husband can avoid difficulty if he makes a positive election .
10 If we count cities of over 500,000 inhabitants as ‘ big ’ , fourteen out of twenty-three of them were to be found in five countries , the United Kingdom ( 6 ) , Germany ( 3 ) , France ( 3 ) , Belgium ( 1 ) and Holland ( 1 ) .
11 In addition the DHSS would not agree to supply updates free of charge , so after much discussion three DHSS manuals were chosen but none of them was to be updated .
12 Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts .
13 Churches long sealed with all their histories in them were to be opened to me this day .
14 But , if equity shares or rights to them are to be issued in other circumstances , they first have to be offered to all equity shareholders in proportion to their holdings whether or not these were acquired as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme .
15 As for those ‘ not rigorously demonstrated , ’ anything contrary to the Bible involved by them was to be considered ‘ undoubtedly false . ’
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