Example sentences of "be [that] she be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it possibly be that she was missing something ? |
| 2 | But the best that a virtuous woman can hope for is that she be reborn as a man . |
| 3 | Another difference between the characterization of Alison and that of the three men is that she is seen totally from the outside — one sees her appearance in her face and her clothes ; we see what actions she does . |
| 4 | Chrissie is relatively young and inexperienced , and while she may be a hardened liar and criminal , we feel the balance of the probabilities is that she is telling the truth . |
| 5 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters has attacked Madonna in the most recent issue of Details magazine : ‘ What 's extraordinary about Madonna is that she 's made all these rotten records , and she 's this awful , ugly , dull person who — by virtue of the fact that she 's completely fearless and shameless and blatant and cheap and bad — has become successful , ’ he says . |
| 7 | My only sorrow is that she 's turned out so fair . |
| 8 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
| 9 | and they confirm that Dreadnought has been officially classed as a wreck , and what 's worse , I 'm afraid , is that she 's lying near enough to the shipping channels for them , to quote their letter , to exercise their statutory powers and remove her by means of salvage craft . " |
| 10 | ‘ All I worry about is that she 's going to come back . ’ |
| 11 | His story is that she 's walked out on him , but there are one or two suspicious circumstances . |
| 12 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 13 | Near the chancel arch is a niche dedicated to St Sitha — her only claim to fame , according to local tradition , is that she was martyred , her head was cut off ‘ and she picked it up and ran three miles to the nearby ( sic ! ) church to warn the other Christians . ’ |
| 14 | You see , what I did n't know , is that she was feeling terribly nervous as well , just as I was . |
| 15 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 16 | The more likely explanation is that she was pressurising him to leave your daughter to marry her . |
| 17 | As it was n't mentioned in the Newsletter write-up Geoff 's theory is that she was booted out . |
| 18 | If , for example , a patient expressed the wish that the doctor kill her if she reached a particular point of mental and physical deterioration , or if the request was that she be left to die when she was not terminally ill , then the doctor would be legally obliged to ignore the request . |
| 19 | My first reaction was that she was to do no such thing . |
| 20 | What he never doubted was that she was listening . |
| 21 | The last thing she wanted him to think was that she was prying into that which did not concern her . |
| 22 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 23 | All she knew was that she was turning into McAllister again , Dr Neil 's pert and lively maid , and that this was the haven which she had unconsciously been seeking in the months since Havvie Blaine had assaulted her . |
| 24 | Now , all that mattered was that she was following him up the stairs to an elegant Georgian town house . |
| 25 | Marshall 's instant thought was that she was waiting to be picked up . |
| 26 | At the trial , the mother 's defence was that she was haunted by black magic and voodoo , and a voice had commanded her to ‘ Strangle ! |
| 27 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 28 | The story behind the featured tale of Michelle Shaw 's tank was that she was sold a four footer in 4mm glass which stood on what appeared to be a not very sturdy stand , in an upstairs rooms where the floor was likely to be less stable than downstairs . |