Example sentences of "[noun pl] that be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corley says the powers that be are assessing the situation to see how many would still be needed . |
| 2 | Corley says the powers that be are assessing the situation to see how many would still be needed . |
| 3 | This is one time when the Powers that Be are not going to pat my head and say all is forgiven — |
| 4 | In December , a software firm in Osaka whose product was deemed ‘ obscene ’ by the powers that be was raided and its stock of ultra-graphic porn ‘ games ’ confiscated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We all came to the same conclusion — the powers that be were determined to make an example of some poor regional company . |