Example sentences of "[noun pl] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the main aims of most arts departments , and of the examination syllabuses in arts subjects , refer to the development of such qualities as ‘ imagination ’ , ‘ creativity ’ , and the ‘ ability to respond expressively to given stimuli ’ ; qualities that are essentially concerned with that same kind of engagement with ‘ sensuous forms ’ mentioned above , and we are left asking the question ‘ Can , or even should , children 's work in the arts be examined at all ? ’ |
| 2 | So why should not his political successors be war criminals ? |
| 3 | That those responsible for the choice of hymns and worship songs be guided by the quality of their doctrinal content , language and musical idiom , and that both the new and the old be included in the repertoire ( 530–533 , 538 — 539 , 541 ) . |
| 4 | It provided for the unimpeded movement of foreign exchange and gold into and out of the country by both Philippine residents and overseas investors , and removed the requirement that foreign exchange earned abroad by Philippine-based commodity and service exporters be sold to Manila-based banks . |
| 5 | ‘ Where will our exporters be if one day the foreign shipowners find it cheaper only to call in Rotterdam with just a few feeder services to this country ? ’ |
| 6 | And let thine ears be attentive . |
| 7 | They will over the next few months be endeavouring to sack twenty five UNISON members , skilled nurses who work within that particular speciality . |
| 8 | ‘ And what , ’ she asked softly , ‘ would your demons be , Mr Flint ? ’ |
| 9 | Well that 's what somebody stands be elected |
| 10 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |
| 11 | But chiefly he stresses the danger of salt spray , ‘ Never let the covers be off , except on days when the wind is not sufficiently high to beat the water into what the seamen call white caps . ’ |
| 12 | Only as the client is thoroughly involved and comes to accept on deepening levels the process of change can our methods be effective in relation to our goals ( Bernstein , 1960 , p. 8 ) . |
| 13 | In the context of companies , there is nothing in law or in accounting standards that requires or forbids one or other of these methods be used . |
| 14 | What are the factors , which if ignored , could affect the accuracy , for example , of opinion poles , and can scientific methods be successfully used in artistic , in social or political fields . |
| 15 | Can scientific methods be successfully used in let's say social or political fields . |
| 16 | Can Compacts be established without Training Agency funding ? |
| 17 | And from whose perspective should any assessment of gains and losses be taken ? |
| 18 | Thus we have to say of medieval popular drama that the sense of ritual ‘ presence ’ , of the kind still indicated by the formalized words and movements of the mass , has significantly changed , but may in some new combination of signals be still to some extent active , in ways that it is clearly -not in later forms and systems . |
| 19 | Would any RUNNING Magazine readers be interested in an exchange scheme with Soviet runners ? |
| 20 | The more securely you can establish a base of reality before your comic events start their upwards spiral , the more willing will your readers be to accept happenings that on the face of them are unlikely and ridiculous . |
| 21 | The more solidly rooted your characters are as being people like oneself or one 's readers , the more willing will those readers be to countenance absurd events happening to them . |
| 22 | I propose therefore that speakers in a locality should be supplied by the Agent in charge of it ; and that grants of literature and money to organizations be made through them . |
| 23 | The purpose in defining these three classes of organization was to consider the question ( Anthony , 1978 , p. 165 ) : ‘ How , if at all , would business organizations be distinguished from other organizations for the purposes of developing accounting concepts ? ’ |
| 24 | Anthony 's purpose in offering the above categories was to help answer the following question : how , if at all , should business organizations be distinguished from other organisations for the purpose of setting accounting standards ? |
| 25 | Thank you very much then I would ask and would put the ordinary resolution that the minimum annual subscription for member clubs , past associations and other affiliated organizations be increased from twenty four to thirty two pounds . |
| 26 | Shall brothers be for a' that . |
| 27 | Shall brothers be for a' that . |
| 28 | ‘ If I may venture , ’ said Earl Robert deprecatingly , ‘ why should not the oracle that has spoken of two brothers be asked to send us a further sign ? |
| 29 | A cart pulled out from the courtyard , driven by a soldier taking the two coffins down to the village church where the priest would sing a requiem and those two pathetic brothers be buried and , in time , forgotten . |
| 30 | Why should investment in prisons and unemployment benefit offices be considered productive ? |