Example sentences of "[conj] [be] it [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one , Robert Hardy , for instance , rumoured to be twelfth or was it twentieth in line to the throne ? |
| 2 | Faith is thoroughly existential , but the moment-by-moment experience is never autonomous , nor is it awash in time , for memory serves to link it to the past . |
| 3 | Nor is it consistent with Coase 's ( 1937 ) attempt to define the abstract nature of the firm ( author 's emphasis ) : |
| 4 | Nor is it unknown for agreements to provide that payments should be made on the basis of book values , avoiding the expense of revaluation and leaving the benefits of capital appreciation to the continuing partners . |
| 5 | As with the other two scales of population redistribution surveyed above , the distinction between the inner and outer parts of individual cities and towns in terms of their inhabitants ' relative prosperity is not new , nor is it unique in Britain ( Herbert , 1972 ) . |
| 6 | Such an omission was not peculiar to this particular school , I realise , nor is it peculiar to schools of its particular type . |
| 7 | Nor is it different in terms of another relation between cause and effect to which we shall come , or any relation between causal circumstance and effect . |
| 8 | As I have indicated in the preceding chapter , this theory is not in fact consistent with all known research ( it is doubtful if any theory could be that ) nor is it free of speculation . |
| 9 | Anyway , is the match against BattyBurn on Sat or Sun , and is it live on Sky by any chance ? |
| 10 | This school is an open school , Ann , but is it open after hours ? |
| 11 | YOUR ANTI-PERSPIRANT MAY BE NATURAL BY NAME , BUT IS IT NATURAL BY NATURE ? |
| 12 | Now the tax has been scrapped , but was it due to citizenship or merely the need of a new leader to gain popularity ? |
| 13 | Such a voice assignment for a man , a god no less , might raise some eyebrows today , but was it exceptional in France in 1663 ? |