Example sentences of "be they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shifting this sense of entitlement , making distinctions between parents suspected of abuse and parents who are not , are crucial issues for feminists — be they in the voluntary or statutory sectors . |
| 2 | The issues are not about inappropriate use of authority nor are they about the display of heroics . |
| 3 | The raft of policies that the Opposition are putting before the British people would be devastating to job prospects , and so ashamed are they of the consequences of their policies that four Labour members of the Select Committee on Employment last week voted down a proposal to hold an inquiry into the effects of national statutory minimum wage because they wanted to hide the truth about that policy from the British people . |
| 4 | ( b ) How important are they to the historian 's meaning ? |
| 5 | Finally , chalet holidays , and in particular upmarket ones : are they worth the extra cost ? |
| 6 | Are they at the back ? |
| 7 | Not many people are are they at the moment ? |
| 8 | Are they on the shelf where they should be ? |
| 9 | Reviews , targeted reviews are they on the firing line or not ? |
| 10 | Are they on the next aisle ? |
| 11 | How satisfied are they with the various parts of the criminal justice process ( policing , trial , and sentence ) and why do they feel this way ? |
| 12 | Are they in the drawing room ? |
| 13 | Are they in the library 's catalogue ? |
| 14 | Are they in the business of selling books or information products ? |
| 15 | Are they in the cellar ? |
| 16 | Penny Kiley discovers some unusual Fab Four tracks one of which is barking mad Exotic Beatles but are they in the wrong groove ? … |
| 17 | Mm Are they in the up your way ? |
| 18 | Are they in the top oven ? |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Donna chewed her lip contemplatively as she read , forced to run her index finger beneath the words , so jumbled and irregularly formed were they on the faded page . |
| 21 | Where were they on the Sunday , that 'd be what … ? ’ |
| 22 | Mm , were they on the dock ? |
| 23 | ‘ Were they on the same side of the path as the moor gate ? ’ 'Yes . |
| 24 | So how much were they at the Swan 's then ? |
| 25 | Rye is officially what is called an ‘ Ancient Town ’ attached to the Cinque Ports , those small ports along the coasts of Kent and East Sussex which were fortified against the French ; so necessary were they to the Crown that , in 1278 , they were given legal privileges : exemption from taxes , the right to rule themselves and appoint their own judges . |
| 26 | Ceauşescu was happy to meet this condition : for him , as for any true follower of Lenin , a trade union was ‘ a transmission belt of authority ’ ; if the union officials could not get the workers to meet their targets , failed to anticipate strikes , and then did not resolve them at once , what use were they to the regime ? |
| 27 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
| 28 | They would lie like flatfish to protect each other from parental awareness , and so certain were they of the rightness of their cause — which was , in many cases , the pursuit of uninterrupted idleness and pleasure — that no one could disbelieve them . |
| 29 | What were they like the two the maids , were they young girls ? |
| 30 | But neither were they from the very poor and vagrant population . |