Example sentences of "[be] it [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So be it when I shall grow old , |
| 2 | So be it when I shall grow old or let me die . |
| 3 | No put your tie on so it goes over your collar that 's right , now it goes over your ti over your shirt collar at the back and then that 's it but you 'll have to , you 'll have to do it yourself soon , you know |
| 4 | and everything over to me , he 's got to be paid all the loans completely off plus the mortgage that 's in arrear , that , that house got to be round to square one with a , with a fourteen thousand pound mortgage and that 's it before he can sign that house over to me |
| 5 | That 's it so you can do these same with your words . |
| 6 | You see lots of people find that they w they do best when they join a class and they go to the class , it 's there every week and th or maybe more than once a week and that keeps them going because they are , they 're expected , it 's a definite booking , and that 's it and they can go that way . |
| 7 | If you go away then as soon as you know that you 're going we 'll send off registration for Bishop Challener and that 's it and we can send off a year 's a year 's umm fees in advance ca n't we ? |
| 8 | Yes yeah that 's it and you can do this still ca n't you and you can still see out . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , you mean how is it that they can afford the pukka style if he is n't successful ? ’ |
| 10 | Why is it that they should have had more faith ? |
| 11 | Why is it that we should want to know things that are , in the broad scheme , totally irrelevant ? |
| 12 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 13 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 14 | The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ? |
| 15 | How likely is it that he would change his story ? |
| 16 | A top-level sprinter could not be a top-level javelin thrower and even less possible is it that he could reach the top in another sport as well . |
| 17 | " But , Granny , how likely is it that I should find the keys , if all her people are out already hunting for them ? " |
| 18 | Ann Mobbs , what is it that you would like to see in terms of change for men ? |
| 19 | Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ? |
| 20 | Having read the description of A Touch of Frost , how likely is it that you will watch it ? |
| 21 | Why is it that you can arrive at an aerodrome ( they do not have the temerity to call them airports , let alone international ) with facilities such as NDBs , localisers , clean eating facilities , tar macadam runways , and where landing fees are minimum ? |
| 22 | ‘ Who is it that you can see in the garden ? ’ |
| 23 | What colour is it and I 'll tell you |
| 24 | Is it because we will point out that the consultants , general practitioners , radiographers , physiotherapists , occupational therapists , the Ayrshire local health council , all four district councils and the four Members of Parliament who bothered to make a submission were against the proposal to opt out — that all those 200 submissions were against it ? |
| 25 | Is it to stop the rain spoiling their designer hairstyles or is it because they may get damp and catch the sniffles ? |
| 26 | ‘ Whose idea was it that you should live here ? ’ |
| 27 | How was it that she could tolerate such noise ? |
| 28 | Why was it that he could succeed in getting under her skin this way ? |