Example sentences of "be they [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they to be sharply accented upwards with a hold on the downwards accent as they are in Ashton 's version of the Act III pas de quatre in Swan Lake ? |
| 2 | Or are they to be softly stretched and so angled that they curve upwards and over before descending silently as in Fokine 's Les Sylphides ? |
| 3 | This begins to face education managers with a fundamental dilemma — are they inside the cage with the teaching profession or are they to be on the outside exercising a more explicit control function than ever before ? |
| 4 | After we have chosen the appropriate remedy to give in LM form , the first choice , after the potency , is how much of the granule is the patient to take i.e. the dose , how often it is to be repeated and for how many days are they to be on that particular potency . |
| 5 | But can less authoritarian forms of moral discipline be effective and if so , how are they to be achieved ? |
| 6 | Even less than Local Authorities are they to be relied on for continuity of policy , or an ability to look beyond the day after tomorrow . |
| 7 | How in this context are they to be drawn back to Jesus ' people ? |
| 8 | No longer are they to be considered as Princess Diana 's or the Duchess of York 's children . |
| 9 | Such skills and abilities are not the prerogative of a particular sort of teacher or of a particular style of teaching — nor are they to be found only in teachers who work with the youngest children in our primary schools . |
| 10 | How are they to be kept ‘ apart ’ ? |
| 11 | For those tenants who become so dependent as to require more intensive care than can be reasonably provided in sheltered housing the survey asks : " Are they to be " bolstered up " by extra warden support ( and other sources of help ) or are they to be transferred to more appropriate settings ? " |
| 12 | For those tenants who become so dependent as to require more intensive care than can be reasonably provided in sheltered housing the survey asks : " Are they to be " bolstered up " by extra warden support ( and other sources of help ) or are they to be transferred to more appropriate settings ? " |
| 13 | Where are they to be found ? |
| 14 | Who are they to be denied any chance of having future pension rights secured under new clause 4 and amendment No. 17 ? |
| 15 | Are they to be defined as refugees ? |
| 16 | Are sportsmen and sportswomen to be at liberty to negotiate in the interests of their sport or are they to be browbeaten by the lobby of latter-day puritans ? ’ |
| 17 | Are sportsment and sportswomen to be at liberty to negotiate in the interests of their sport or are they to be browbeaten by the lobby of latter-day puritans ? ’ |
| 18 | Is that to be defined by reference to the express terms of the contract or are they to be excluded in defining what was reasonably to be expected ? |
| 19 | Were they to be friends ? |
| 20 | They belong to the countryside and were they to be evicted the countryside itself would cease to exist . |
| 21 | Indeed , some would say , without much exaggeration , that , were they to be deprived of music , life would lose its meaning ’ ( Storr , 1970 , p.363 ) . |
| 22 | ( A trifling proportion , perhaps — though students of the trivial are usually intrigued to learn that all the dissolved salts in the sea , were they to be dried out , would be enough to cover the entire land surface of the planet to a depth of 150 feet . ) |
| 23 | How were they to be filled ? |
| 24 | Were they to be three in that huge bed ? |
| 25 | As to his feelings for Madeleine , nurtured since he 'd been a little boy , even were they to be revived , it seemed unlikely Madeleine would respond to him . |
| 26 | Were they to be realised , patronage might not disappear entirely but it would wither substantially as a result of being seen as increasingly unnecessary and underhand . |
| 27 | Were the parents of Dronfield to be treated as naughty boys and girls , or were they to be treated as intelligent working people ? |