Sentence examples for be are from inspiring English sources

"The powers that be are incrementalists.

Its concluding paragraphs, where "ask not" would be, are missing.

The powers that be are eternally in my debt".

Maybe the powers that be are working on something".

Charities may be – are – one route for doing that.

My offences – grievous though they may be – are historic.

The mothers-to-be are willing to take that risk".

Both of these parents-to-be are under age 17.

The dads-to-be are useless, or absent.

Human rights for paedophile fathers-to-be are still intact.

Grooms-to-be are never much into planning.