Example sentences of "that [be] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet within two years of the publication of this gloomy statement the educational powers that be were asserting the need to incorporate into the new National Curriculum educational preparation for citizenship . |
| 2 | St Paul had taught that the powers that be were ordained of God , and it was generally held that all power , genuinely held , was God-given , that kings were of God 's choosing . |
| 3 | We all came to the same conclusion — the powers that be were determined to make an example of some poor regional company . |
| 4 | We 'll be on that boat up and down the River Tyne at the finish , that 's were we 'll end up I think . |
| 5 | it was kind of hard for them to pay it and that 's were it came in that the people who actually had the black book would lose out on their dividend because their dividend would be used to pay what was owed by other people . |
| 6 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 7 | That was were they use t and , and it had turned off down er , down where it is now er , down there . |
| 8 | That was were they just got all aboard |
| 9 | not me , you that was were n't it ? |