"if they be" is not correct and usable in written English.
Instead, the more appropriate phrase to use is "if they are". Example: If they are interested, we can offer them the job.
Actions occurring on the organic level, if they be at first confused and obstructed, can become organized, coherent, and liberated through such inquiry.
I do appreciate the care that researchers are taking to quantify the benefits some feel in a physical culture of reading, even if they be few.
Richard Dawkins aside, the view that all scientists – even if they be atheists or famous people – hate religion is not really true.
The courts should not permit themselves to be driven by the hardships, real or supposed, of particular cases, to accomplish results, even if they be just results, in a mode forbidden by the fundamental law.
2. A second obstacle to review of the regulations here is that, even if they be deemed an 'order,' Storer has not shown that it is 'aggrieved' by them.
And it may be pertinent to suggest that, if, as the court has always held, the immunity is reciprocal, the state Legislatures, by a parity of reasoning, ought to have the power to prohibit federal taxes upon state operations, if they be deemed immoderate.
