Example sentences of "[conj] be it the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it the merest coincidence that Kyle is sitting back in his chair , with the receiver to his ear , stroking the bald patch on the back of his head as I explain my business ? |
| 2 | Is it the original owner or is it the innocent purchaser ? |
| 3 | Is the in the input embedded in would you or is it the first phoneme of judge ? |
| 4 | Nice names , shame about the faces — or is it the other way around ? ! ’ |
| 5 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 6 | Is it the fact that the mother is blundering towards the unknown , with her children that causes unease , or is it the de-feminised figure of the woman herself ? |
| 7 | Or is it the coordinated interaction of several matrix components ( EHS contains laminin , type IV collagen , heparan-sulphate-proteoglycan , entactin , and other proteins ) with the cell that effects the maintenance of a normal phenotype ? |
| 8 | The late appearance of Lonrho 's Tony Rowland in the guide of Fairy Godmother — or is it the Wicked Witch ? — offering to wave the magic wand and change the bulk of the debt into convertible preference shares could have offered a reprieve . |
| 9 | Is it the criminal who tortures the cop , who 's looking out for his own , or is it the undercover copy , who 's selling them all out ? |
| 10 | The Duke of Norfolk , and other grandees of the English Roman Catholic Church , or was it the Irish-origin tendency ? |
| 11 | Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term . |
| 12 | You were seen down there , Major , has the cat got your tongue ? — or was it the Private Office ? ’ |
| 13 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 14 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 15 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 16 | well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it |
| 17 | For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism . |
| 18 | Or was it the unvarnished cruelty of an eleven-year-old ? |
| 19 | Or was it the same amount of land ? |
| 20 | new or was it the last year ? |
| 21 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 22 | Little wonder Suzie had fallen in love with this modern city which proudly displayed so much of its past — or was it the shadowy Svend who had really captured her sister 's heart ? |
| 23 | Or was it the marsh-grass hissing , acre upon salt-caked acre ? |
| 24 | Nor is it the first time that Rupert 's good name has been besmirched . |
| 25 | Nor is it the Forbidden City or the Kremlin . |
| 26 | Kalkadoon is not the work of an individual nor is it the conscious product of any group . |
| 27 | To reiterate , the purity movement was neither a conservative barrier to women 's sexual freedom , nor was it the passive vehicle for an emergent feminist consciousness . |
| 28 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 29 | Nor was it the only way in which he was inadequate as a Christian ruler . |
| 30 | Nor was it the only deduction : there were charges for seaming the stockings , for use of a corner of the master knitter 's workshop , for needles , candles , oil , coals and for the expenses involved in collecting in work . |